No, I meant manual windows and locks. Thank goodness, since I don't know how to drive stick.
Ok, now I understand. That I have seen.
I've got two words that are going to make all the pain go away. Miniature Golf.
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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Gudanov - Jul 22, 2009 11:00:23 am PDT #310 of 30001
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msbelle - Jul 22, 2009 11:08:19 am PDT #311 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Where to find milk in glass bottles (sound): [link]
lisah - Jul 22, 2009 11:08:34 am PDT #312 of 30001
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Thank goodness, since I don't know how to drive stick.
I have to learn! And soon. There's a stick shift car sharing my parking pad now. Never saw the point of it. So much more fiddly than a regular car!
My grandparents owned a dairy store and we got milk delivered from them until it closed in the early 80s. That was the best milk ever.
Gudanov - Jul 22, 2009 11:12:46 am PDT #313 of 30001
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Almost all the grocery stores around here have milk in glass bottles available.
So much more fiddly than a regular car!
Once you get used to it, it just becomes second nature. It can be a pain in stop and go traffic though. I'm so used to manuals that sometimes automatics get on my nerves, "Hey car, I didn't want to shift gears right now."
megan walker - Jul 22, 2009 11:14:35 am PDT #314 of 30001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Whole Foods also sells milks in glass bottles but I assume the deposit is as expensive as it was in MD, so that becomes a pain.
If they sold it at the farmers' market here like Ronnybrook Farm in NY then I would get it every week.
You'd think there would be more people into this concept in CA.
lisah - Jul 22, 2009 11:14:56 am PDT #315 of 30001
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Once you get used to it, it just becomes second nature.
That's what everyone tells me. But they all learned when they were young people! I am old and unable to easily learn new things.
Gudanov - Jul 22, 2009 11:15:56 am PDT #316 of 30001
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I am old and unable to easily learn new things.
It might actually be easier since the whole driving thing isn't new. Just learn someplace where there is plenty of space in front of you (behind you in reverse), especially in a car with a lot of power.
-t - Jul 22, 2009 11:16:59 am PDT #317 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I don't remember what the deposit is, but I bring the empties back so it's moot at this point.
lisah - Jul 22, 2009 11:18:06 am PDT #318 of 30001
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I do have a good teacher lined up (boyfriend refuses to teach me himself and that's probably a good thing).
tommyrot - Jul 22, 2009 11:20:44 am PDT #319 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I think I told this story - my parents met back around 1960-ish when my dad was teaching driving and my mom was a student of his. She just could not master the stick shift on my dad's car so he bought his very first car with an automatic transmission so he could teach her to drive.
I found stick shift on cars very easy to learn, as I had much previous experience driving tractors.