Date:         Mon, 13 May 2002 16:21:03 -0400
Reply-To:     "G. Matthew Bulley" <gmbulley@BULLEY-HEWLETT.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         "G. Matthew Bulley" <gmbulley@BULLEY-HEWLETT.COM>
Organization: Bulley-Hewlett
Subject:      F: Warning!!!  Check Your Gearshift!!! (couldn't wait)
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We all know the importance of having the air in our tires rotated... you
know the old air begins to get foul and the moisture can rust out the
rims, so I was on my way to have the air in my tires rotated and my
friend Alexxy was following me.

So we weren't far down the road when I look out the windshield and
Alexxy is honking and waving for me to pull over. So I do, I mean, I
did. The veins were popping out on his forehead, I couldn't understand
what his problem was...

Anyways, so he comes running up to the window, all flailing his arms and
stuff and says "Why the hell are you driving BACKWARDS???

I was like, "What?"

And he was like, really talking slowly like I was a retard or something,
going, "Why are you driving using only your mirrors, with the van in
reverse?"

I was like, "I dunno"... then he showed me that the "R" on the shifter
did not stand for "Run", but for "Reverse" and that there was a way to
make the van go down the road faster, (and facing the other way around)
by using the numbered gears. It is Soooooo cool.

Everybody better check their shifters. I bet a lot of people are making
this same simple mistake.

--mango

>>>>>>>>All in good humor... >>>>>>
I'm sorry Pinkie, I'm still chortling at 15 kph, in reverse.

gmb