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I recognize all the symbols in the above picture except the green one with a shoe inside a circle inside the parentheses....
 
Zeldman said:
I recognize all the symbols in the above picture except the green one with a shoe inside a circle inside the parentheses....
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I think it is for newer cars with manual transmission telling you to push in on the clutch


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Green shoe is the “shift lock”. It exists on some automatics to indicate the gear is locked so it cannot be shifted to reverse.
 
That's funny!
I bought an old truck about 10 or 12 years ago that had window cranks. I took my youngest daughter out in it shortly after I got it. She asked if she could roll down the window and I told her yes. Apparently, she had never been in a car without power windows. She said "how do I do it?" I pointed at the crank and said "use that." First she pushed at the knob and said "it's not doing anything." I said "No, crank that around" so she started spinning the knob.

I had to show her how a window crank works when we got to the light.
 
Zeldman said:
:nonod::nonod:

Next thing you know folks will have to ask what this was for.....

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:lol::lol:
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I discovered a new version of that game where someone is asked to pat their head and rub their stomach at the same time when I was driving my Escort. It was pull up at a red light and start cranking the window with your left hand. Light turns green. While still rolling down the window, clutch, shift and drive away as smoothly as possibly. The variation was driving while stretched across the car, just able to reach the pax side crank, and shifting with the left hand while cranking. I was absurdly pleased with myself for mastering both those maneuvers. LOL
 
SoonerAviator said:
Don't tell them about that secret switch on the floorboard by your left foot. Then they'll activate the warp drive.
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OK - dad joke on the way:

Years ago we went to visit family in upstate NY, then went over the bridge at Niagara to the Canadian side for the day. On the way back, the bridge was closed for an "unattended package" that was probably just someone's backpack, but it was still close enough to Sep 11, 2001 to be a security concern. I ended up driving south and crossing again down in Buffalo. That drive, at night, was interesting because all the speed limit signs were in KPH. No problem, I thought, the speedometer always has MPH and KPH on the dial. Nope, not on this rental car. It was in MPH only. It made for an interesting drive, trying to do the math in my head and guess what the real limit was. I noticed a button on the dash that said "M/K", I'd never seen that before so I pressed it. Turns out, it switches the speedo between MPH and KPH. There's a little "M" and "K" that light up to show what mode you are in, and then the needle on the gauge gets recalibrated. So driving along at 60 MPH and then pushing that button made the needle instantly jump to 100. Ahh, OK, now I know 2 things, one is how to know how fast I'm really going, and the other is that I now have a turbo button.

I set it back to MPH and then said, "Hey! Check this out! I found the Turbo Button!", then I pushed it and leaned back in the driver's seat as the needle jumped. My kids thought it was pretty funny...the first time.
 
SoonerAviator said:
Don't tell them about that secret switch on the floorboard by your left foot. Then they'll activate the warp drive.
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And that pull knob on the dash (the one you'd need to use to start, especially on cold days) would control how much warp. It was never calibrated (Warp 1, Warp 2 etc) as that would give away too much should the car fall into Klingon hands.
 
My '79 CJ-5 had the dimmer on the floor, too... but it didn't have window cranks, just zippers. Of course most of the time during warm weather it didn't even have doors...
 
I owned a 1962 Ford 500 that had the windshield washer pedal on the floorboard. My 1956 Chevy pickup had the starter on the floor too. We sure have come a long ways ...
 
Don't those lifts usually have a warning about not allowing people on the lift part? ;)

That kid climbed up there, can't he just climb back down?
 
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wayne said:
Don't those lifts usually have a warning about not allowing people on the lift part? ;)

That kid climbed up there, can't he just climb back down?
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Having realized how high he actually is, he may have no interest in backing over the edge to start back down. And at least in the world of rock climbing and mountaineering, going down is much more dangerous than climbing up. It would be a bad call to ask him to climb back down.

I think the situation called for ignoring whatever placards are on the lift, strapping an employee into a harness and sending him or her up to retrieve the kid.
 
GaryM said:
Having realized how high he actually is, he may have no interest in backing over the edge to start back down. And at least in the world of rock climbing and mountaineering, going down is much more dangerous than climbing up. It would be a bad call to ask him to climb back down.

I think the situation called for ignoring whatever placards are on the lift, strapping an employee into a harness and sending him or her up to retrieve the kid.
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Sorry, I thought the sarcasm was a little more obvious. I changed the font to green to make it more clear. Yes, going down is harder.

Those warning labels are most likely there to protect the manufacturers of the lifts from people doing "stupid human tricks" with them.
 
I was in a H.Depot once and saw people scrambling around, a few weird announcements, heard a lady shrieking! Then they blocked all the exits. KIDNAPPING! The little brat had crawled into a cabinet and hid:mad:
 
When he was much younger, my son liked to hide in the middle of those circular racks of coats that are often found in the clothing section of department stores. I spent more than a few anxious moments crawling around looking to spot feet in the center of the racks.
 
GaryM said:
Oops. Sometimes I miss the obvious.
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Meh, that's one of the problems with just text, "no tone". If you heard me say it out loud you would have known instantly. If I remember correctly, in a Speech Communications class in college they said the words are only 30-40% of the message. Other things such as tone, facial expressions and body language, make up the rest.
 
GaryM said:
When he was much younger, my son liked to hide in the middle of those circular racks of coats that are often found in the clothing section of department stores. I spent more than a few anxious moments crawling around looking to spot feet in the center of the racks.
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Oh jeez, our middle daughter liked to do that too. She's quick; ran track and cross country later in high school. She'd run into the center, then stand still and not make a peep. Drove my wife crazy/worried the first few times, then she'd just get mad. I largely thought it was a lot of fun, and pretty smart for a little kid; smart enough to stand still and make no noise. She was playing and I had a good general idea where she was. Typically no one else was around, so we weren't pestering other shoppers. Usually the rack of clothes weren't too long, so a little looking down low and I'd see her shoes.
 
GaryM said:
When he was much younger, my son liked to hide in the middle of those circular racks of coats that are often found in the clothing section of department stores. I spent more than a few anxious moments crawling around looking to spot feet in the center of the racks.
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When I was younger my older and wiser sister told me I could get a free lollipop if I got lost at the grocery store. So the next time my mom went shopping I tried getting ''lost''. I went to the owner/manager crying saying I was lost, so they called my moms name over the loud speakers, which embarrassed my mom terribly. But before that the owner gave me a grape lollipop to get me to stop crying.

Unfortunately this was in the early 60s and a small town where everyone knows everyone, so this only worked once...
 
GaryM said:
When he was much younger, my son liked to hide in the middle of those circular racks of coats that are often found in the clothing section of department stores. I spent more than a few anxious moments crawling around looking to spot feet in the center of the racks.
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Oh man I loved those things. Every time my mom took me shopping with her. She would get so mad. Now it's come full circle and my son does it and I get mad lol.
 
wayne said:
Oh jeez, our middle daughter liked to do that too. She's quick; ran track and cross country later in high school. She'd run into the center, then stand still and not make a peep. Drove my wife crazy/worried the first few times, then she'd just get mad. I largely thought it was a lot of fun, and pretty smart for a little kid; smart enough to stand still and make no noise. She was playing and I had a good general idea where she was. Typically no one else was around, so we weren't pestering other shoppers. Usually the rack of clothes weren't too long, so a little looking down low and I'd see her shoes.
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More parents should learn to teach their kids not to do that. That would cause more kids to do just that. Therefore there would be fewer screaming kids running around. I prefer them still, quiet and out of sight.
 
wayne said:
Meh, that's one of the problems with just text, "no tone". If you heard me say it out loud you would have known instantly. If I remember correctly, in a Speech Communications class in college they said the words are only 30-40% of the message. Other things such as tone, facial expressions and body language, make up the rest.
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So old person history moment. That's the original purpose of the :) sign. Sarcasm. On old online chat things, people would get all wound up when they couldn't detect sarcasm, so the :) was used to denote sarcasm. To me, that's how it still reads.

To say "You're really smart! :) " means a different thing these days. I guess.
 
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