Date:         Fri, 7 Dec 2007 17:18:40 -0500
Reply-To:     craig cowan <phishman068@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         craig cowan <phishman068@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: LVC: FRIDAY!!! Barefoot Driving.
Comments: To: Geza Polony <gezapolony@sbcglobal.net>
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Reasons why barefoot driving is illegal: "Because". But, by not bringing
shoes with you while driving a vanagon you do get more pedal control (better
gas milege right?) and if you leave the shoes at home you may lighten your
load by an insignificant enough bit to make it up some hills. Maybe putting
a shoe over your air intake will work the same as that "JUICE BOX" product
(maybe you could do this with an actual juice box?) by limiting the O2 that
makes it into the engine and making it run a little lean.

A lesson i've learned: It's much harder to push a vanagon that breaks down
in the middle of a road off the road when your either in sandals, or
barefoot. SOOO.....i either need shoes, or to fix my vanagon.

-Craig
'85GL

(if you wrap a leather belt around your foot to look like a sandal, people
will believe your wearing a sandal)

On Dec 7, 2007 5:07 PM, Geza Polony <gezapolony@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> I used to use "barefoot driving" as a topic in critical thinking classes.
> I'd ask the students to write on "The Reasons Barefoot Driving Is
> Illegal,"
> and immediately the students' brains would begin to conjure up these
> reasons, man being the rational animal he is. After they've finished the
> essays, which contain all sorts of insights like "because your foot could
> slip off the pedal," etc., I'd tell them that in fact it isn't illegal,
> and
> then get into the subject of why they assumed it was illegal, and where
> those reasons actually came from, and the like. Good discussions ensued,
> having nothing to do with barefoot driving, like this post.
>
> There's something vaguely threatening about a person going barefoot
> outside
> a "proper" context  like the beach, as if civilization itself is being
> threatened in some tiny way. That's why bare feet are often subjected to
> ridicule, even more so than the bare you-know-what's of Paris Hilton and
> her
> ilk. Bare feet are subversive, which is perhaps why we assume the
> illegality
> of barefoot driving. Ask any hippie.
>
> As we say, LVC.
>