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Post number 8698

machaus — Fri, 29 Jun 2001 11:07:08 -0800

Yesterday, the Good Morning Silicon Valley webpage at the SJ Merc (which I love since it keeps me from having to see CNET's god awful ads) had an interesting blurb as an offshoot of the whole NY cell-phone safety debacle (scroll to the last item.) Columnist John Paczkowski asked if it was possible to change your pants in a moving car at 65 miles an hour. He got some pretty funny responses. What have YOU done in a moving car that you shouldn't have?

By: Postroad

Postroad — Fri, 29 Jun 2001 11:11:43 -0800

I suggest that you should send your reader to the fianal part of the lengthy case, which even the writer admits is very long and difficult...having just read No Logo, I can appreciate what is going on. Thanks for the piece.

By: Kino

Kino — Fri, 29 Jun 2001 11:33:18 -0800

What have YOU done in a moving car that you shouldn't have? Jumping out of it at 50 mph would have to be my dumbest.

By: Zootoon

Zootoon — Fri, 29 Jun 2001 11:34:55 -0800

Mr Bean changed from pyjamas into a full set of clothes while on his way to the dentist and without cruise control.

By: machaus

machaus — Fri, 29 Jun 2001 11:47:16 -0800

in an Austin Mini no less...

By: jragon

jragon — Fri, 29 Jun 2001 11:47:31 -0800

What have YOU done in a moving car that you shouldn't have? I'm not sure I can answer that. Wait, I sorta just did.

By: jpoulos

jpoulos — Fri, 29 Jun 2001 11:47:48 -0800

It.

By: fusinski

fusinski — Fri, 29 Jun 2001 12:00:42 -0800

I used to have my calc book wide open, with a legal pad, pen, and calculator, studying for my tests during my commute to the university...

By: panopticon

panopticon — Fri, 29 Jun 2001 12:01:18 -0800

On lonely stretches on route 17 in New York I would close my eyes and see how far/long I could drive, using the rumble strips as guides.

By: tomorama

tomorama — Fri, 29 Jun 2001 12:03:22 -0800

Writing notes next to directions on a peice of paper, leaning on the steering wheel for support while merging onto the highway... yeah, that's probably pretty dumb. At least there's no one on the highway at 2am.

By: panopticon

panopticon — Fri, 29 Jun 2001 12:07:52 -0800

flipped over.

By: UncleFes

UncleFes — Fri, 29 Jun 2001 12:11:11 -0800

I once tossed a cigarette butt out the driver's side front window, had it fly back in the backseat driver's side window, blow around in the back seat for a little bit, then flip up and land in my hair (still lit). About five seconds elapsed time between toss and landing. I took it off the road, onto the shoulder, into the ditch and back out onto the road while slamming on the breaks and smacking the back of my own head as hard as I possibly could. If you thing cell phones are distracting, try lighting your hair on fire.

By: Hackworth

Hackworth — Fri, 29 Jun 2001 12:22:22 -0800

Drugs. Lots of 'em.

By: Kino

Kino — Fri, 29 Jun 2001 12:44:58 -0800

Drugs. Lots of 'em. That'd be when all the roadsigns start looking like liquorice allsorts (well, more like this come to think of it). Back in my lsd complimented youth i remember being a passenger in a car suddenly 'speeding' out of a 10 minute fog patch on the highway and realizing we'd been doing 7 mph all along. If you thing cell phones are distracting, try lighting your hair on fire Or, combine the two, have someone record the call, and get more hits than the jerkyboys.

By: spilon

spilon — Fri, 29 Jun 2001 12:50:19 -0800

Firecrackers, bottle rockets, roman candles...

By: mcsweetie

mcsweetie — Fri, 29 Jun 2001 13:59:11 -0800

beat the first two areas of "Wario Land" on game boy. brushed my teeth. rubbed spaghetti noodles on a caribou (maybe).

By: mcsweetie

mcsweetie — Fri, 29 Jun 2001 14:00:47 -0800

as an aside, has anyone ever driven with their teeth? I do all the time, encumbered or not, just to freak out my passengers.

By: raedyn

raedyn — Fri, 29 Jun 2001 14:18:03 -0800

i do the tooth-driving thing, too, same reason.

By: rorycberger

rorycberger — Fri, 29 Jun 2001 16:19:10 -0800

passing ketchup packets to our friends in another car, so that we could both bombard our other friends' car with them, all at 90 mph.

By: rorycberger

rorycberger — Fri, 29 Jun 2001 16:20:51 -0800

oh, and for freaking your passengers out, nothing beats turning off your headlights on a dark windy road that you know really well (like the one i live on).

By: rodii

rodii — Fri, 29 Jun 2001 16:40:09 -0800

There's built-in bias in this thread. If you want to know the *really* wild things people have done, you should talk to some dead people.

By: dong_resin

dong_resin — Fri, 29 Jun 2001 19:17:14 -0800

In my unfortunately drug-free youth, I once popped on the cruise control and jumped in the backseat, just express my irritation with the flat boring nature of the Florida highways. My friends where not pleased.

By: dong_resin

dong_resin — Fri, 29 Jun 2001 19:53:35 -0800

Ahem. Were not pleased. I'm typoing like a madman this week.

By: Dirjy

Dirjy — Fri, 29 Jun 2001 21:35:27 -0800

Made up a drinking game on a brief road trip. (Yes, it was stupid. When I was young and irresponsible, I was young and irresponsible.). It went something like this: See a semi truck: drink once Go under an overpass: drink once See a mile marker: drink once See a roadkill: chug it The car was filled with me and my friends yelling: "Semi (glug)... semi (glug)... mile markerrrrr (glug)... ROADKILL!!! (glugglugglug).