Yah, of course, if one was always perfect and never made a mistake. But the
fact of life is that one does get distracted for many reasons. To depend on
being clever enough to remember to put that pop top down is easy if you are
still young, and still full of romantic idealism and the feeling of
invincibility, but when you have lived life you KNOW that mistakes happen.

William Polowniak
1989 Vanagon GL
1988 Mercedes 300 SE

> A clever vanagon.com list member would not need an alarm to tell them that
> the poptop is still up!  :)
>
> Really, if you need an alarm to tell you that, death from some sort of
> mishap or other is just around the corner anyway.
>
> Just my smart-a** 2 cents worth!
>
> Jeff
>
>
> > Now you would think that VW or a clever vanagon.com list member would
have
> > figured out a way to make a switch that would not allow a van to start
> with
> > the top up. A simple switch. Or an alarm that goes off when the van is
> > started up with the top up.
> >