OT: Left hand down?

[angelica...]

I remembered you whinged about it before. I had to look up the date.

Cindy Hamilton

[Custos Custodum]

Not if you're attempting a reverse turn with a trailer or caravan. I have a story about that but I won't bore you with the details other than to say that some of the onlookers were stunned into quiet applause. HGV drivers? Pah! Kid's stuff!

[Ian Jackson]

In message [e-mail]>, charles [e-mail]> writes

My illusions have been completely shattered!

[Commander Kinsey]

Does it display it in mirror language so you're used to the output like a mirror? If not I can imagine people turning the wrong way.

Cats are the dirtiest creatures on the planet, despite the myth. They don't bathe, they just lick, which doesn't remove fleas for example. Imagine if instead of taking a bath or shower, you just licked your finger and rubbed it on your skin. Apart from taking 100 times longer, it would be 100 times less effective.

I'm surprised your cat doesn't run off when it hears the engine. Every cat I've owned/known/seen is scared shitless of engines, especially when mine was sleeping in the actual engine bay when I started it. It's lucky it wasn't in contact with the belts.

[Commander Kinsey]

That's because they're pathetic and can't control their surroundings. Parrots can.

[Commander Kinsey]

Good idea!

I've never understood people not remembering which is left and right. Anyone who can write must know which hand they use? And assuming they're right handed, write, right, easy!

[Commander Kinsey]

If someone is directing you to reverse your car into a tight space.

[Commander Kinsey]

Things that should be fitted to bicycles.

[rbowman]

No, it's just a camera. I always bacl into parking spaces if possible and other than the cat all I use it for is to see the concrete stops that are usually too narrow to see in the mirrors.

The cat has been curious when I'm washing my face at the bathroom sink. I've offered to scrub him down but he isn't interested.

A couple of weeks ago he managed to be in the wrong place at the wrong time and I dripped some Spectracide (weed and grass killer) on his butt. He definitely didn't appreciate being held under the lawn spigot.

The cat doesn't mind the car or motorcycle. In fact he appears from someplace when I drive in. He'll lounge around on the lawn while I mowing until I get too close and then he'll go wherever he goes. He's back when the engine stops.

[rbowman]

One of my bicycles has a mirror and I miss it when I'm riding the one without.

[Jim GM4DHJ ...]

Troutbridge

[The Natural Philosopher]

Makes getting the mascara right very hard

[Commander Kinsey]

Moor since? You've developed an Aussie accent.

[Commander Kinsey]

You keep several years of records?!

And why would you remember that? Most people remember only important things.

[Commander Kinsey]

I don't understand the problem reversing a trailer or caravan. Everyone could turn the trailer themselves if they had a hold of the towball end. So if you're reversing the car, you look over your shoulder, and move it the same way!

[angelica...]

Of course I looked it up on google.

It stuck in my mind for some reason. I also remember that my fifth-grade teacher was allergic to roses.

Most people remember a ton of irrelevant crap.

Cindy Hamilton

[rbowman]

Try backing a set of doubles up...

[williamwright]

Better still the two proper CCTV cameras that I have on each of two vehicles, with a proper TV screen for the display.

Bill

[williamwright]

60s wasn't it?

Bill

[Mark Lloyd]

[snip]

I remember the appearance of the buttons on a nightstand in a hospital in Galveston, even though I haven't been there for 47 years.

BTW, saying that reminds me of the smell of fish (another memory from that time, Galveston is on an island by the Gulf of Mexico). I would often ride the ferry, and smell the salt and fish.