"Signing up to help moderate the list I
have no regrets about.  Yet."

Heh.

--
Jack "Rocket j Squirrel" Elliott
1984 Westfalia, auto trans,
Bend, Ore.

On 09/21/2012 01:39 PM, David Beierl wrote:
> At 11:35 AM 9/21/2012, Roland wrote:
>> before I leave home. (Many years ago with our old Vanagon my wife drove
>> into the garage with the rear hatch all the way open which bent the wiper
>> and added some "character" to the metal).
>
> That hatch is invisible from the driver's seat when it's raised. I
> think maybe I'll go hang a donkey's tail from it, or an AOL CD or
> something. That's bitten me twice now, fortunately not badly - but
> still. Once into another Vanagon's open hatch, and once into the
> inside of an open garage door. Both times while working on a Vanagon.
>
> I guess that, along with driving the Westy seven miles once with the
> top up,* are my big stupids. Signing up to help moderate the list I
> have no regrets about. Yet. <g>
>
> *It did seem a bit sluggish once I got to 45 mph, but that's as fast
> as I was going. It was night time, going from my folks' house to a
> friend's along countryish roads. Got to my destination, turned back
> to shut the door and almost had a heart attack.
>
> Subsequent thought - headlight-alarm type buzzer, goes off when
> reverse gear engaged with any door open. Easy-peasy. AOL CD in the
> meantime. No, Alistair, I'm not going to use La Cucharacha for that
> either. Beetle horn, maybe. ;-)
>
> Yrs,
> David