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>>>>>GPS... that may become a thing in the season, but nowadays I just see myself wasting time, because the morons don't give turn signals anymore (afraid someone may take it if they give it?),
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>>>>In Boston they don't signal. It's thought of as "letting the enemy know your intentions".
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>>>Senior citizens are more courteous, usually turning on the turn signal when they leave the house and leaving it on for the duration of the drive ;-)
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>>I had a hire car recently, while damage to my car was being done (on the offender's insurance). It was a Peugot 308. I'd thought I'd like it (as I'd hired a 307 in the past) but I hated it. One of its many unergonomic problems was that when I had the steering wheel adjusted so my arms weren't at full stretch (I needed the seat right back) I couldn't even see the indicator (signal) warning lights, or the bloody speedo for that matter, obscured by the wheel.
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>The French probably make a special version of the Peugeot for the English market, designed to be especially aggravating ;-)

- The heater's blower knob has an a/c button in the middle of it so that you accidentally hit it with the thumb while adjusting the airflow - then wonder 5 mins later why the car isn't getting any warmer.
- When you cancel the indicator it flicks over to the other side if you don't do it very delicately.
- There is a central armrest, and one on the door handle, but if you can put your elbows on them you can only just reach the bottom of the steering wheel and your arms are practically akimbo.
- As I said, cos I need the seat way back my arms are practically at full stretch to reach the wheel (at 10 before 2) with all the stress on the shoulders that entails (and memories of the trapped nerve in my neck the other winter).
- The bonnet (hood) falls away in a curve from the wide windscreen (windshield) such that you can't see it or perceive the width of the car when in a narrow passage or parking (very disconcerting).

ET AL

I couldn't wait to get my Cruiser back
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>I smiled at your first sentence -- so you took your car to have damage done to it? (channeling Dragan again)

Good point. :-) By the time I'd composed the sentence in my head, having started it b4 planning it, I forgot "... repairs to the ..." (and the "was" would have had to be a "were").

Good example of how s/w can go wrong when you set off just writing without first thinking the problem through.