I always thought that when they showed the seat scooting shots that they were promoting driving safety by showing people it was safer to get in on the passenger side of a parallel parked automobile rather than walking out in traffic to get in on the drivers side. Not that mayberry had much traffic but when it did accidents did seem to happen (ie Malcum Merriweather and the bike and truck accident, The big traffic incident when Andy was out of town, Barney bumping into a car when he thought he was jinxed by the lucky letter, Barney getting his toes ran over, and Andy hitting Aunt Bee's car. I could go on and on but you get the idea.)
Maybe someone on the show had an incident themselve or someone they knew and they just wanted to pass along a safety tip. Obviously after more and more cars got bucket seats and consoles this practice fell out of use. The one camera reason presented earlier makes a lot of sense also. Dapper Dan And take that gearshift outta your mouth! _______________________________________________ WBMUTBB mailing list [email protected] http://mail.wbmutbb.com/mailman/listinfo/wbmutbb_wbmutbb.com http://www.mayberry.com/tagsrwc/wbmutbb/
