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[jaydub]

I had a car once that let you know it was below 1/4 tank by running out of gas.  Miscalibrated gauge, I guess.  It was also non-linear in its response - it would sprint from full to half, then slowly dwindle towards 1/4.  Not a car you want to loan to someone.  At least, not someone you like.

[CortJstr]

My whole family is now totally incapable of working their own door locks. My mom's last car locked all the doors when you put it into gear, then unlocked them when you put it in park. Her new car doesn't do that 2nd part, so parks the car everybody will just yank on the door handles in vain trying to be let out until the driver hits the switch. It has never once in the 2 years she's had to car occurred to anybody to just flip the manual lock themselves and hop out.

Every time I do my family thinks I'm a magician. "How did you get out? My door is still locked!"

[theinevitable]

My whole family is now totally incapable of working their own door locks. My mom's last car locked all the doors when you put it into gear, then unlocked them when you put it in park. Her new car doesn't do that 2nd part, so parks the car everybody will just yank on the door handles in vain trying to be let out until the driver hits the switch. It has never once in the 2 years she's had to car occurred to anybody to just flip the manual lock themselves and hop out.

Every time I do my family thinks I'm a magician. "How did you get out? My door is still locked!"

and that is how our Alien Overlords will control us, party people.

I am thinking about how my professor discussed Chickens with their Heads Cut Off today in class.

[linnea]

I sort of hate trips down south (i.e., the Lower 48), because then I'm afraid to drive by myself late at night, and I always have to lock the doors, etc.

Here, I don't have to worry about that stuff. People made fun of me for automatically locking my car doors out of habit when I first moved here. Of course, people don't tempt fate either...people who have really nice cars lock them.

If something were to happen, my neighbors would come to help (the walls are also thin). Alternatively, I could just punch my EMS radio as a 10-69 (officer needs emergency assistance). Someone would have to be retarded to pull a big crime in a small town. Well...that and my .357 and 500 rounds of ammunition that I have. ^___^   I <3 (heart) going to the gun range.

[KeithHernandez]

Couldn't you just come in unnoticed and leave the same way.  Also, I bet the various crime solving equipment is worse in rural areas.

[Choop]

My scooter's gas gauge is accurate enough, I guess. When I'm down to a half a tank, it still points to F. When I'm at a quarter tank, it points at about 2/3 full. When I'm close to empty it drops down to 1/4 full, and soon after that it dies while the next gas station is in sight.

[littlefallsmets]

Alternatively, I could just punch my EMS radio as a 10-69 (officer needs emergency assistance).

Officer needs sexy emergency assistance, it seems.

[linnea]

hahaha... different ten-codes mean different things in different parts of the world! Apparently in your world... yeah, we all know what a ten-sixty-nine means to you, lfm.

In our service, 10-68 means officer needs assistance, 10-69 means needs EMERGENCY assistance, i.e., life or death situation. A bunch of people in town have scanners, which I guess is standard entertainment in small towns everywhere. We should be switching to a plain-English format, but a lot of people just like using ten codes. We don't want to sound like doofuses on the radio, for pity's sake.

I wouldn't know about the crime solving equipment, since I'm just a firefighter/medic and therefore don't get to solve crimes. I just help cart the wounded out and try to avoid cutting through bullet holes and other basic "provide-patient-care-first-BUUUT-try-to-avoid-messing-with-potential-evidence" stuff they teach us.

[KeithHernandez]

Wait, you are supposed to help people but also keep the evidence in mind?  That doesn't seem very cool.

You party people get alot of shootings?

[Drastic Action]

I was going to comment on the brilliance of your cars' locking systems, and ponder why I think such a thing is brilliant (namely, because all the cars I've ever used are patently not brilliant).  It is amazing how a little extra design thought can really make the difference.

But this comment seems out of place among the 69 codes and bullet-wound comments now.  ;P

[wombat]

We don't want to sound like doofuses on the radio, for pity's sake.

I always used to worry about this when I worked at the zoo. I feel so much better to know that brave sexy emergency personnel also are concerned about sounding like doofuses on the radio.

[CortJstr]

In our service, 10-68 means officer needs assistance, 10-69 means needs EMERGENCY assistance, i.e., life or death situation. A bunch of people in town have scanners, which I guess is standard entertainment in small towns everywhere. We should be switching to a plain-English format, but a lot of people just like using ten codes. We don't want to sound like doofuses on the radio, for pity's sake.

I swear I posted this last night but I can't find it now. In Virginia they just banned the 10 codes. Recently the ATF called in a 10-50, which to them means "traffic accident." But to the local police it means "officer down."

[robot_god]

Her new car doesn't do that 2nd part, so parks the car everybody will just yank on the door handles in vain trying to be let out until the driver hits the switch. It has never once in the 2 years she's had to car occurred to anybody to just flip the manual lock themselves and hop out.

Sounds like my '98 GM.  Are they on a vertical axis where you rotate it by pulling from the side?  Apparently few humans can operate this without extensive training.

[wombat]

It's not our fault. Millennia of evolution did not fashion our brains to deal with slightly different clever locking system ideas on every car we encounter. And don't even get me started on microwave ovens. (I still only get the one at work to start by randomly punching buttons like a monkey till it miraculously turns on.)

[littlefallsmets]

But to the local police it means "officer down."

See, that's what I thought 10-69 meant...