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Phaelax
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Why is it that the things I love most are the same things I hate the most? I hate/love computers and I hate/love cars. Right now, I hate cars!

5am this morning, I go to the store for some milk and the car gets stuck in drive when I come back out. So I can't reverse out of my parking spot. Stupid me turned the car off, forgetting that you cant start the car in drive nor remove the key. So I leave my groceries in the car(except the milk) and walk home, locking the car with the remote. (i live just across the street from the store) Apparently, the battery isn't turned off while the key is in the car, even though its not turned on. So this afternoon the battery died, so I can't even unlock the car from the remote now. Which means to jump the car I need to open the hood and to do that I need to get into the car first. Another problem, I only had 1 key and its one of those special centronic keys. So tomorrow I have to see the dealership about getting a new special key. Then jump the car. Then jack the car up and manually pull the shift cable(which needs replaced and isn't cheap) to get the car in neutral so I can start it. Then after I push the car out of the space on the jack I need someone to put their foot on the break as I pull the cable again to get it back into drive. Lower the car back down, drive it home into my garage to where I can work on replacing the god awfully expensive cable. Oh, one more thing, its suppose to snow tomorrow.


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Ouch... Not cool. Yeah as much as I love driving... I hate cars. All they do is eat time and money.

Would it be easier to tow it to your house first? Then do all the crappy work in your garage or at least save it for a nicer day? It would be less crappy work as well if you towed it right? Though, I dunno if it's a bad idea to tow in Drive.

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Mr Tank
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MIcrosoft make cars now?


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Quote: "I hate cars. All they do is eat time and money."

And get you from point A to point B with a quickness your feet can only dream of!


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So how are you getting around till its fixed?


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Well Eureka, you see we have these things called feet, and we even have created a vehicle to use feet to move, called a bike. You can move with just feet (they come attached to your body amazingly!), and you can use them to move slightly faster with a bike which uses a wheel...

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Quote: "You can move with just feet"


Thats what those are for!


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Posted: 16th Apr 2007 07:23 Edited at: 16th Apr 2007 07:24
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Mostly I just use my feet for scratching itches on the back of my leg or, get this, WALKING to the fridge for a snack. Usually after such exertion I am left weak and tired. I then return to my room and lovely computers

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Phaelax
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Posted: 16th Apr 2007 08:42
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Quote: "So how are you getting around till its fixed?"


I have another car that I've been trying to sell, '00 Grand Prix GTP. I need to replace the hub assemblies on both front tires and get it aligned, but its not a major issue. The car that's still sitting outside the store is an '02 Chrysler 300m that I just bought at the end of last October.

My friend has a 300m as well, and his dad is a certified chrysler master mechanic, so guess who I bug all the time! (known his family for 20 years) He said the price of the shift cable is about $150 and each cale is specific to the make of the car and its transmission. So no luck finding a cheaper one at the autostore, I'm stuck with all dealership parts. Hopefully, he can get me a discount.

And buying a new centronic key isn't cheap either. Right now, I have a choice between paying my car insurance bill or fixing my car. Either way I look at it I sorta need both. Good thing for plastic cards!


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You drove to the store to get groceries yet you said you live just across the street. Surely you aren't that lazy!

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Quote: "You drove to the store to get groceries yet you said you live just across the street. Surely you aren't that lazy!"


Yes, that also striked me as unusual.


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I hate people who use their car just to go a short distance. Its the same thing when parents take their kids to school in their car and they only live next door to the school, or down the road.

Phaelax, just imagine, you would still have a working car, if you hadn't have taken it to the shop
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Uhh, grocery store ppl. Surely I'm not gonna push a shopping cart home to carry everything? (plus it was raining) The milk was the only refrigerated item I needed to carry home, but I had a bunch of canned soup and pop that I really didn't wanna carry.

Quote: "Its the same thing when parents take their kids to school in their car and they only live next door to the school, or down the road."

If its highschool, then yea thats dumb. But with little kids its more of a safety issue. I knew a girl in highschool who's parents bought her a brand new mustang and she drove it to school everyday. She lived less than a block away.

Thought I'd mention that my extra car wasn't just lying around waiting for me. Last week my dad had to borrow it while his car was in the shop. When he picked up his car, he left it at the shop so my cousin could then borrow it when he dropped his car off to get fixed. Lucky for me, he just get his car back yesterday afternoon and I could go get mine back.

Just waiting to get a call back about my key.


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jeez think about the enviroment so what if its raining take some public transport or something

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hahahaha, you're obviously not from the States. Europe might have good public tranport systems, but we certainly do not!


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Not good mate! Feel sorry for ya as I know how annoying car problems can be. Only advice I would give you is get a manual!! I know automatics are an easier drive, but there's more to go wrong (this case as an example) and they're not as fun to drive!


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I thought the UK's public transport is worse than the USA's but I have never been there so I don't know

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Quote: "I thought the UK's public transport is worse than the USA's but I have never been there so I don't know"
Dunno. But we have about 60 million people in an area that probably doesn't even come close to the size of the smallest US state. Plus most of the infastructure was there before most other places. So yeah, a lot of it sucks. Especially trains. Really really really.... Heh, used to live near London and travelling to North Wales was like something out of Harry Potter (which was partially filmed in the town I used to live in fact fans). You started off with a nice modern, fast (unless the wrong type of leaves or snow is on the tracks), and clean train, then travel back in time the further north you go. So around Birmingham you change into 80's rail, then go a bit further and move onto another train (there is no direct train from where I lived to North Wales) that looks like it should have been retired in the 50's, before finally changing to a train that probably ran on steam and coal (Idris the steam with Ivor the engine etc - interestingly my uncle was called Idris till he fell off a roof like Rod Hull of Emu fame). And it only took about 12 hours give or take when you could have driven it in 4.5 hours (that was a good run though). And don't forget the drug addicts between the carriages....

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UK's public transport seems to have accidents and delays, but I've used public transport a lot, no problems, except when Potters Bar train crash happened, I was in London, luckily we didn't go home at lunch, as it could have been us on that train.

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Also in india in one city there is are more than in the UK

Glad I live in wales, relatively peaceful to the rest of the world, exept switzerland which dont get into many sticky things.

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Posted: 16th Apr 2007 23:54 Edited at: 16th Apr 2007 23:55
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Quote: "Only advice I would give you is get a manual!! "

I used to have an old daytona with a manual. Very handy if you accidently kill the battery by leaving the lights on. But most of the cars I drive today are big sedans and usually a manual is not even an option, otherwise I would.

I got a new key, its only to unlock doors as it doesn't have the chip to allow it to start the car. (if you try, the car will lock after 3 tries and you must get it towed) Ripped out the whole center console so I can get to the cable later on. Now I just gotta wait for my friend to get off work so we can jack it up and force it into neutral.

My friend's dad showed me earlier on another car what all I'll have to do to replace the cable. It's a big headache and takes a couple hours, even for an experienced mechanic.

p.s. Finally got my groceries!


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I HATE CARS Also. I loved them untill Bush got into office, then I had to start riding my bike more.

That is okay, I once drove my car to Wal-Mart, and just as I was carrying out my groceries... Well, lets just say I never used a chevy again. The hood was smoking, I looked inside, and the fuel injector itself was on fire. I quickly got a fire extinguisher and put it out before I became an extra-crisp waffle.

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Good ol' American muscle!


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Quote: "I knew a girl in highschool who's parents bought her a brand new mustang and she drove it to school everyday. She lived less than a block away."


Yeah, but that's different, it's a Mustang!


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Quote: "Also in india in one city there is are more than in the UK"
What, 60 million people in one city?.... The most dense US state is only just over half the size in terms of people. Give it a few hundred years and it will just be one really big city.

Quote: "Glad I live in wales, relatively peaceful to the rest of the world, exept switzerland which dont get into many sticky things."
Ah, fellow sheep boy. Alright boyo? Personally I'm now living in Cyprus, and even though it's only a small island with about a million people, it feels a lot bigger than where I used to live as a kid (Anglesey; a lot smaller island with pretty much nothing on it but me, my dog, and 10 million sheep. Take that how you will....). Found a piccy of Anglesey...

Yep, was fun growing up. And those mountains aren't that great either. Not only did they stop all snow on the island, but if you tried to climb them the hard way (there is a tourist way) then you probably died. Dozens every year used to die basically (even experienced veterans apparently; is a bit of a git according to the papers).

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Hey wait, so do you guys hate me because I drive to school, however, I live five miles away...
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Quote: "I HATE CARS Also. I loved them untill Bush got into office, then I had to start riding my bike more."


Oh. Your one of those people. I dont let some stupid politician influence my life style changes, I directly do as I see fit.

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Quote: "Hey wait, so do you guys hate me because I drive to school, however, I live five miles away..."


no but if there was a bus that went right there then you should take that instead

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Quote: "Yeah, but that's different, it's a Mustang!"


I know, who would ever want a Ford? But seriously, there's no point in getting a mustang unless its a GT.


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mustangs are girls cars around here.

[edit] let me clarify that... RECENT mustangs.

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no, the newest mustangs are way cooler, the older models are girl cars, like Eclipses.


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I really like the newer Mustangs. They look way cooler than 2004 and below. Not to mention I sell awesome honeycomb panels that go between the taillights and around the logo on 2005 and up Ford Mustangs, so the new cars make me a lot of money. The panels look awesome installed, IM or e-mail me if you are interested.



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