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Subject:F: Warning!!! Check Your Gearshift!!! (couldn't wait)
From:G. Matthew Bulley
Date:Mon, 13 May 2002 16:21:03 -0400

We all know the importance of having the air in our tires rotated... you
know the old air begins to get foul and the moisture can rust out the
rims, so I was on my way to have the air in my tires rotated and my
friend Alexxy was following me.

So we weren't far down the road when I look out the windshield and
Alexxy is honking and waving for me to pull over. So I do, I mean, I
did. The veins were popping out on his forehead, I couldn't understand
what his problem was...

Anyways, so he comes running up to the window, all flailing his arms and
stuff and says "Why the hell are you driving BACKWARDS???

I was like, "What?"

And he was like, really talking slowly like I was a retard or something,
going, "Why are you driving using only your mirrors, with the van in
reverse?"

I was like, "I dunno"... then he showed me that the "R" on the shifter
did not stand for "Run", but for "Reverse" and that there was a way to
make the van go down the road faster, (and facing the other way around)
by using the numbered gears. It is Soooooo cool.

Everybody better check their shifters. I bet a lot of people are making
this same simple mistake.

--mango

>>>>>>>>All in good humor... >>>>>>
I'm sorry Pinkie, I'm still chortling at 15 kph, in reverse.

gmb