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- From: mzraly@ra.cs.umb.edu (Michael S Zraly)
- Newsgroups: alt.peeves
- Subject: Other People's Cars (Was: A Definite Not-Peeve, ...)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.042715.15166@cs.umb.edu>
- Date: 24 Dec 92 04:27:15 GMT
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- dourish@EuroPARC.Xerox.COM (Paul Dourish) writes:
- > [...] A friend, away for the holiday, has leant me her car, [...]
-
- This reminds me of a very old
-
- Peeve: borrowing a person's car, especially when the brakes are shot
- and the person doesn't tell you about it.
-
- This happened to me when I was 16, perhaps 17, and worked after school
- as a dishwasher. It was a dark and rainy afternoon. About 4 pm one of
- the cooks, who lost his license for DWI, asks me to drive him over to
- pick up one of the other cooks from his (the other cook's) apartment.
- One of the waitresses lends us her car. She doesn't tell us that the
- brakes only work when the pedal is practically below the floorboards.
- So I start the car and ZOOM! off we go. The rest is a blur, including
- making the left turn through a red light and finally taming the beast
- by the time we got to the apartment.
-
- !Peeve: I lived
-
- --
- Mike Zraly If you give me six lines written by the most honest
- mzraly@cs.umb.edu man, I will find something in them to hang him.
- -- Cardinal Richilieu
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