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Category: Cars

  • Best Advice For Driving On Ice

    Best Advice For Driving On Ice

    Don’t. But, if you have to, which sometimes occurs, going slow is the first thing. The first, slightest indication that you are on a slippery surface, slow down. When one of your passengers is an almost ninety year old woman, there are a couple of things you just don’t want…

  • Low Blinker Fluid

    Low Blinker Fluid

    You know, I feel sorry for some of the people that drive these brand new cars.  Not so much that they are pretentious, which some are, of course, but rather that people have to get them without all the niceties.  I have never bought a brand-new car, but I know…

  • Safe Driving

    Safe Driving

    Two elderly women were out driving in a large car — both could barely see over the dashboard. As they were cruising along they came to an intersection. The stoplight was red but they just went on through. The woman in the passenger seat thought to herself, “I must be…

  • Going to Albuquerque

    Going to Albuquerque

    We have had a large family trip to the Albuquerque Balloon Festival in the works for several months now and it is about to happen. And, unlike Bugs Bunny, since I am going to Albuquerque I don’t have to worry about the left turn. We don’t do it annually, just…

  • Hang Up And Drive:  Repost of 6/26/09

    Hang Up And Drive: Repost of 6/26/09

    I copied and pasted the original document to the original date and did not correct or change anything, even though there were errors in it. this repost is fixed up a little bit, but the message remains the same. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, distracted driving accounted…

  • Broken Paradigm

    Dear Fans, Friends, Fiends, Foes and Family, Sometimes things are not always what you think they will be.  I think we all have our little prejudices and preconceived ideas about things.  Here’s one example. I was on the way to pick up Margaret from work and I pulled up at…

  • Hang Up And Drive

    Okay, so I learned it was rude to type in ALL CAPS back when we learned how to type on a typewriter.  It is considered the same as shouting.  Using red ink in letter writing was at one time the most insulting breach of etiquette.  I have known this and…

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