Darren New wrote: > Ralph Shumaker wrote: >> I don't know why people call it an emergency brake. You never use it in >> an emergency unless you want to flip around backwards. > > You use it in an emergency when you slow down for a red light and the > pedal goes to the floor. > > By the third time this happened (in different cars), after I told my > passenger we'd have to park and find a bus to work, he said "I > wondered why you were reaching down there. You didn't look like the > brakes had failed."
I stand corrected. s/never/rarely/ -- The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes. --Benjamin Dislaeli English Statesman 1844 -- KPLUG-LPSG@kernel-panic.org http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg