There were some automatics like that; but during most of the time of the floor switches, stick shifts were more common than automatics.
And IIRC we called them “dimmers”. But I don’t remember ever seeing a label. I suppose they were called something in the owners’ manuals.
Four on the floor or three on the tree?
When you have a container with a cover that can be secured in some way - a milk jug, a jar of spices, a bottle of motor oil - and some idiot places the cover back on the container but doesn’t actually secure it. Then the next person, figuring the presence of the cover means the container is safe to lift in a somewhat more liberal manner than if it was open, has the cover fall off and spills the contents all over the place. Bonus points if the idiot had volunteered to “help out” in the kitchen, even though the cook said he didn’t need any help. Yes, D, it’s your fault there’s milk all over the floor, and just be glad I’m not putting you in the oven for Thanksgiving dinner…
I got a load of 16’ x 5/4" decking boards delivered a month ago and I’ve been progressively replacing the decking on my back deck. I paid for delivery because I had no easy way to transport a big load of 16’ boards.
Last week, I discovered that ONE board had ONE side that was cut straight, without the fillet that’s on all the others. Because of the way I was replacing the decking, this board would end up right in the center of the deck. Replacement ground to a halt. The lumber place would replace it…with an additional delivery charge. Or they would just refund me for that one board. Of course, I still had no way to get even a single 16’ board back to my house. I don’t have a router or bench saw to put a fillet edge on it. My wife is saying, “Nobody will even notice it.” Wrong.
(Solution: I bought a “rounding bit” for my Dremel tool ($7) and did the edge by hand. Not quite the correct radius, but close enough.)
My wife did this (but she’s not an idiot. I grabbed a jar of picante out of the fridge buy picking up the entire jar.
I always give it two or three vigorous shakes before using. I only got to one shake. What a mess.
Buddy of mine made $$$ during college as a medical guinea pig.(as did I). One time he was collecting all his urine in gallon jugs.
Coming home drunk from a party, carrying a gallon jug full of two days of piss, he fell. The cap did not hold. He stood up with multiple abrasions, soaked with piss.
Not his finest hour.
I just have to ask: Did all your friends get together to refill his jug so he still had the proper amount to submit for testing? Did hilarity ensue?
You may have the makings of a movie there. You know…
“John, we’ve identified a genetic marker in your urine that makes us believe that you are going to die inexplicably in 72 hours. But, strangely, the concentration of it in your urine was only about 1/5 what we would expect to see.”
(To self) “Oh, no! Now me and my four friends have to figure out who is going to die!”
“Oh, and John, you’re pregnant.”
We laughed, but it was pretty awful for him. He lost money from the researchers, got urine all over himself, hit concrete with his face, requiring stitches.
I guess the only thing left would have been if his GF broke up with him over it.
I may be a little late to the party but I agree with the infuriatingness of people not dimming their high beams for pedestrians. The only time I’ve come across it was trying to run 40 miles on rural roads starting at 5 am or so, and until the sun came up, every approaching vehicle didn’t dim their lights. If they had dimmed their lights I would have had the option to continue walking on the paved shoulder on or the road, but the bright lights shining in my eyes meant that I could not see the tarmac in front of me on the shoulder, which was in a lot worse shape than the lane used for driving. So I had to either walk in the well-maintained road, or stay on the shoulder nearly motionless. Thankfully walking into the street was an option because there were was never traffic going both ways at the same time.
When I asked why people do this, they said that people are afraid that there may be other people near you that they didn’t see, but I’m not buying it. The chances that this unseen person would also simultaneously jump out in front of you at the last moment is very low. Much greater chance that the person you do see will stumble due to being dazzled.
I can only imagine how much worse it would be in the UK where, as has been mentioned, there are fewer places with an option to walk on the shoulder safely.
Wait a minute. Are you claiming that every approaching vehicle had their high beams on? Because people here claim- as do I- that we rarely use them.
Fall over in the girlfriends house with the ‘sample’ would have been hard to explain.
Those of us who live on rural roads have been claiming, in this thread, that we most certainly do use them.
And i claim that’s it’s unwise not to use high beams when they are helpful, and aren’t dazzling others.
At that point, you’ve got a country music song.
(“Urine Trouble Now.”)
I think I’ve found my new sig.
Custom license plates that don’t make sense. My soap box is that people with custom plates should be required by law to have a descriptive bumper sticker.
Few roads I travel have street lights. I use my high beams all the time, only dimming them when I encounter other cars.
Likewise. I won’t use them in ‘town’ but there are no street lights in town. Just decorative lights for sidewalks.
Dammit! I had that small object less than five minutes ago, there’s nobody else here, and I haven’t even left this room - how can it be gone??
I stop being upset when I find the thing, but I know I looked there three times already.