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For the first time in more than a year the wife and I took on a road trip to visit one of her friends. The use of Cruise Control is something which I totally rejected in my earlier driving years but now I find it indispensable - you don't stress your legs over time and you don't have to constantly pay attention to whether you're too far beyond the speed limit or not. I only wish I would have embraced this technology sooner, because I probably wouldn't have ever had a speeding ticket otherwise.

What I find strange though is that it sometimes seems like I'm the only person on the road who uses it, at least the only person in a passenger vehicle. While I drive at the speed limit there is an endless procession of cars which rush past me, sometimes only for me to pass them a few miles later on the road as they have slowed down to take an exit. Wouldn't it be less stressful to drive at the limit for that short stretch of road and wait for the eventual exit to come before you?

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  1. Changeling's Avatar
    Cruise control was indispensable whenever I was out and driving after drinking. I'm old now and stay home with my drinks Long trips as well. Why would you reject the idea of cruise control ? Weird.
  2. Doc Holliday's Avatar
    So, when you got there, did you and the wife give her the old what for?
  3. GohanX's Avatar
    Most people are too stupid to know how to use cruise control (or even what it's for.)

    <3 increased gas mileage
  4. dog$'s Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Changeling
    Why would you reject the idea of cruise control ? Weird.
    Just dumb young pride, really. "I don't need no machine assisted driving, god damn it."

    Quote Originally Posted by Doc Holliday
    So, when you got there, did you and the wife give her the old what for?
    Ohhhhhh no. Not in that place. Her friend upgraded from an apartment to a trailer home and our sleeping accomodations were in the main room of the place on a hide-a-way sofabed. Without any AC. There was nothing anyone did in that sauna without everyone else in the place hearing it.
  5. Shooting Love's Avatar
    After cruise control comes Depends.
  6. kingoffighters's Avatar
    And after Depends comes Worms in your butt

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