Top Tips for Turbulent Times by Timothy Tomkinson #2
By drkevin
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Motoring
As I might have mentioned before somewhere, car door designs leave a lot to be desired. It's amazing to me that modern cars can be loaded down with electronic wizardry yet continue with the clunky operation of doors first pioneered at the dawn of time.
The weird three stage spring loaded process doesn't appear to be remotely rational and can only result (sooner or later) in the door suddenly jerking into somebody's wing or a lamp post. Top tips here are to ask a passerby to hold the door for you, or to ask your passenger to hold the door, while he asks a passerby to hold his door. Fitting gull wing doors is another option, and rubbing the doors with lemon juice or bicarbonate of soda, may also help.
Potholes are, of course, inevitable in our supposedly 'wealthy' country. Avoiding these often takes up more of the driver's attention than crossroads, roundabouts or even mobile phones. Some repair crews are apparently trained to leave all manhole covers and drainage grates at least two inches below the level of the 'improved' road surface. It is rather reminiscent of Bradbury's firemen who burn things rather than save them. It is effectively pothole creation.
Top tips include enrolling for a slalom course, buying ex-military vehicles for the daily commute and taking out shares in repairers workshops.
Lemon juice and bicarbonate of soda may also help.
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