From the number of their trucks I saw, if I-40 didn’t exist FedEx would have to build it.
Z will do 100. That didn’t surprise me. What surprised me was how quickly it’ll go from 75 to 100.
How old do you have to be to hang your clothes on a bar across the backseat? I mean, is there some sort of legal age requirement like for buying beer or getting Medicare? I’m not THAT old yet from the looks of things, even if I had a backseat. But will we all hang our clothes like that when we get to the right age? Or will this practice die out when that generation passes?
You still see passengers with their feet on the dash even in new airbag equipped cars. What kind of injuries do you suppose those fools would sustain if the airbag inflates? Talk about hip replacement.
About the feet on the dashboard thing: my wife does that. I like it because she has great legs.
Also, I think have clothes hanging fro ma bar in the back seat of a Z4 is an excellent image, a real statement about the Boomer generation.
I’ve always put my feet on the dash. I started as a preteen and I see no reason to stop now, especially since I *already* need a hip replacement. Que sera, sera.
My passengers can safely travel that way, since I turn the passenger side air bag off when I first buy a car and never remember to turn it back on, ever.
And I saw those hanging bars for sale in the “off to college” area of Bed Bath & Beyond the other day. Whether kids will buy them or not, I do not know, but it certainly seems they’re being marketed to them. And since most of them are driving teeny little SUVs, like Souls and Cubes and Scion Toasters, they could totally use them without anyone outside being the wiser. So I guess my vote falls on the “not dying out anytime soon” side.
I put my feet on the dash, too. (and like Tom, my husband rather enjoys it).
Pretty idle Ken, one of the nice things about the road.
Pre-downturn when I still commuted that highway (so as late a summer last year) heavy traffic running the 40 and the 10 out of LA was supposed to go up by 40% by 2012.
That is a whole ‘nuther lane.
And a patch on what was supposed to happen from Detroit south and Texas north as imports increase.
Ken,
I visit every couple of months and it seems as if I never left. You’re quitting again? You’re going to take a vacation from posting? You’re going to go see the sweeties?
At least I see that you got a new car. A good one, too! I advise you to drive across Wyoming where the distance between off ramps is as much as 100 miles and open it up. That’ll sharpen your senses.
Stop at all the LARGE truck stops along the way and eat their good food. That’s one of the delights of driving cross country. Also hire yourself one of those ‘Lot Lizards’ and take her with you for a couple of days. That’ll sharpen your senses, too. Don’t worry about what Jill thinks.
To Karen: Your husband is a VERY lucky man!
Ephraim F. Moya