And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
The impact of NOT learning how to tell time on an analog clock goes WAY BEYOND not knowing clockwise or counter-clockwise. It impacts fractions, multiples of 5,10,15, 20, etc. and much more. The more you actually think about how YOU visualize a clockface, how often your mind references it, etc. the more horrible you see this absence of teaching about analog clocks.
I was driving my son's Firebird home from the body shop when it suddenly went dead. My first reaction was, "How the hell do I get out of this thing?" Then I remembered that just pulling the handle unlocked the door. A quick look under the hood showed that the shop hadn't tightened the battery cables. We get used to this stuff. I had a long lifetime of window cranks behind me.
A loose battery cable won't cause the car to suddenly shut down. If it did, then it wouldn't have started in the first place.
In my poor, broke youth (about 1971), I once drove a car for a couple weeks with no battery at all. It had a stick shift, so I gave it a little push, jumped in and dumped the clutch and took off. I'd try to remember to park on an incline if I could.
Beg to differ - at least 1 US vehicle I know from as far back as 2012 dies if the battery cable disconnects. It's not the primary engine function that suffers, it's all the electronic controls that call foul & shut everything down. In at least on instance the cable didn't enough come off the terminal, it was just loose.
Kid's don't understand "clockwise" either.
ReplyDeleteThe impact of NOT learning how to tell time on an analog clock goes WAY BEYOND not knowing clockwise or counter-clockwise. It impacts fractions, multiples of 5,10,15, 20, etc. and much more. The more you actually think about how YOU visualize a clockface, how often your mind references it, etc. the more horrible you see this absence of teaching about analog clocks.
DeleteI was driving my son's Firebird home from the body shop when it suddenly went dead. My first reaction was, "How the hell do I get out of this thing?" Then I remembered that just pulling the handle unlocked the door. A quick look under the hood showed that the shop hadn't tightened the battery cables. We get used to this stuff. I had a long lifetime of window cranks behind me.
ReplyDeleteA loose battery cable won't cause the car to suddenly shut down. If it did, then it wouldn't have started in the first place.
DeleteIn my poor, broke youth (about 1971), I once drove a car for a couple weeks with no battery at all. It had a stick shift, so I gave it a little push, jumped in and dumped the clutch and took off. I'd try to remember to park on an incline if I could.
Beg to differ - at least 1 US vehicle I know from as far back as 2012 dies if the battery cable disconnects. It's not the primary engine function that suffers, it's all the electronic controls that call foul & shut everything down. In at least on instance the cable didn't enough come off the terminal, it was just loose.
DeleteMy first car, a 1949 Chevy had 2 different keys. One for the doors and the other for the trunk
ReplyDeleteEvery vehicle I have owned, except the current one, had 2 keys - 1 for the doors and 1 for the ignition.
DeleteThe ignition key of my '72 C-10 pickup would unlock the door of my buddy's '68 GTO.
DeleteOr "dial a number".
ReplyDelete"Rewind the tape"
DeleteHang up the phone.
DeleteI call marijuana "dope" and my grandkids (in their 20's) laugh at Papa for calling, what they think is a simple intoxicant, a bad name.
ReplyDeleteMy kids know what it is because I still drive a 1994 FORD. - Snakepit
ReplyDeleteOr "hand up the phone."
ReplyDeleteSorry, hang up the phone.
ReplyDeleteI wonder how many people have drowned because they couldn't roll down a window? I keep one of those glass breakers in the console of our cars.
ReplyDeleteBring back roll up windows and manual transmissions. Knock $50,000.00 off of the price of a new car!
ReplyDeletemake it simple, todays 15-30 yrs plus have NO IDEA.....
ReplyDeleteIt is good and proper though, to be a man who knows what an axe a shovel and a Rifle are for.
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