Well well, who would have thought?

[Keith]

Jesus H! I suffer enough from anxiety as it is! Is it normal to tell people you've bought a car and then get told how many effing ways you can killed in it?

Lighten up, it's ------Mas for ------'s sake!

 

[Larry L.]

You're never going to have to worry about any of the above, Keith. You'll never use yours for anything but 'putting' around TOWN! :2thumbsup:

 

[Keith]

Well, that would be a nice thought IF I can get in the damned thing. I still haven't even set foot in it. It's all but 25' from my back door and that's about 20' too far in this weather...:blank:

 

[Larry L.]

SEE!!! Ya shudda bought a 25' limo instead of that little putt-putt! Distance problem would have been eliminated beforehand!

 

[Robert May Eng.]

Well, that would be a nice thought IF I can get in the damned thing. I still haven't even set foot in it. It's all but 25' from my back door and that's about 20' too far in this weather...:blank:

If and when you finally get to drive it Keith you will be in for a pleasant surprise, they have a huge door and masses of space inside. I am 6`3" and cant remember the last car I clambered into a micro car that was as easy to access.

Bob

 

[Randy V]

The picture of the car that's smashed is not a smart car. Count the lug nuts...

Keith, I think Gulf Livery would suit it!!!!

 

[Larry L.]

The picture of the car that's smashed is not a smart car. Count the lug nuts...

Hmmmmmmm...'never noticed that...but, now that you mention it...

I now see the tail lights are different too (not that THAT proves anything..."Smart Car" 'tail lights may have changed.)

What specific brand of tiny car 'twas doesn't change the broader point though.

 

[Randy V]

Hmmmmmmm...'never noticed that...but, now that you mention it...

I now see the tail lights are different too (not that THAT proves anything..."Smart Car" 'tail lights may have changed.)

What specific brand of tiny car 'twas doesn't change the broader point though.

You could have put an SUV in the same position and while your odds of survival would have gone up, the odds of your being critically injured would have been exceptionally high... Those dump trucks can weigh upwards of 40 tons or more.

The Smart Car has its positive points, safety is one of them when put in the context of your average collision in a traffic accident. Oddly, there has not been any sort of movement in this area to allow smaller cars like this to share a metered parking spot. Put two of them in one spot here and the one in back will get a parking citation from the Meter Maid..

 

[Larry L.]

The Smart Car has its positive points, safety is one of them when put in the context of your average collision in a traffic accident.

Probably very true in the average, 'in-town', 35 mph-or-less collision.

What I was referring to was...well... what I stated above!

Oddly, there has not been any sort of movement in this area to allow smaller cars like this to share a metered parking spot. Put two of them in one spot here and the one in back will get a parking citation from the Meter Maid..

Where I live, 'same is true regarding "handicapped" parking places. I'm specifically referring to the ones designed for wheelchair-accessible vans wherein the parking space beside the actual handicap parking spot is painted with stripes to keep cars from parking there so a wheelchair can be loaded/off-loaded from the side-door of said van.

At one time, my mom and I both had handicap permits (long story). We went to a local hotel for breakfast one day and we BOTH parked in one of those "van" style parking spaces...she in the actual handicapped pking space itself and I in the "stripped" space. I taped a note to the INSIDE of the windshield on both cars that c-l-e-a-r-l-y stated the cars were "together"...even had ARROWS on each note pointing to the other car. (The idea was to just take up ONE handicapped space instead of two so there'd be a space open for someone else to use that otherwise wouldn't have been. I couldn't see any logic in doing otherwise.)

You guessed it. By the time we returned, my car had been ticketed! I immediately took a PHOTO of how the two cars were parked AND A CLOSEUP OF THE NOTES ON THE WINDSHIELDS and headed down to the courthouse! They CANCELLED the ticket on the spot.

You'd THINK the person who wrote that ticket WOULD HAVE BEEN ABLE TO SEE/UNDERSTAND/GRASP what our whole INTENT had been and just moved on. But, NOOOOOOOOOOOOO...:evil:...the power-drunk "jackwagon"... (- R. Lee Ermy)

 

[marc]

When I was in France they would back those SC into parking spots instead of parallel parking to make it fit.