[T3] 1 month from yesterday!!!

[Jim Adney]

On 22 May 2012 at 20:32, Bobsnotch at aol.com wrote:

> Yes, I did understand it. It's just that I had never seen that type of  
> "failure" before. I mean, yes it failed to stay in place, but after  
> re-positioning it, it worked fine for the 70 miles I drove home. 

I hope you realize that the only way this could have happened is that 
you didn't get the tab inserted correctly when you installed the 
points. That tab will never jump out on its own.

> On top of that, someone else's car stopped almost exactly where we  
> originally did, but he couldn't move out of his lane, so he was partly blocking  
> traffic. I'd guess he was sitting in that spot for about a half hour, 
> before  John came to our rescue. Before that, I watched 2 guys change a tire on  
> the I-75 ramp to I-94. It was really a bad spot for cars, and with  
> construction dropping 3 lanes to 1, really made traffic back up pretty good.  

So, in the same area where you were stopped on the side of the road, 
2 other cars stopped and blocked 2 out of 3 traffic lanes? Wow, 
there's no shortage of stupidity in the driving public.

A year ago I watched a car drive halfway thru an I-Pass toll area 
before realizing he didn't have an I-Pass transponder. So he slammed 
on his brakes and stopped in the middle of the fast lane on the 
freeway. That was on the freeway, in the Chicago area.

Later that night, we witnessed a minor accident on the freeway, 
followed by a half dozen people getting out of the car in the middle 
lane and then wandering around in the traffic lanes, engrossed in 
their cell phones, IN THE DARK!!!

-- 
*******************************
Jim Adney, jadney at vwtype3.org
Madison, Wisconsin, USA
*******************************