<p>AH yes, the beauty of manual locks is the fact the police will still brake into your car if you lock in your keys 
I was wishing for that a month ago when DS locked his keys in! Can someone explain to me how you lock your keys in your car when you need the fob to lock the car?</p>
<p>Apple Maritinis to everyone who ever had to pick someone up after they locked their keys in the car…I guess that is everyone except Bullet :)</p>
<p>Just puchased a car with crank windows, manual door locks and manual transmission. </p>
<p>My new to me 1998 Suzuki Swift will be the perfect car to teach the 15 year old how to drive a manual, plus I’m getting 33 MPG in city driving nd it’s easy to park. In its way it’s like a Mini Cooper without all the high end stuff.</p>
<p>Just think about manual windows are very good for us, maybe that is why there was less obesity back than…all the execise we got in the summer rolling up and down the windows, raised our heart rates and toned our arms! :)</p>
<p>Years ago Prevention magazine did an article about all the calories we no longer burn up. It included calculating things like manual typewriters, non-electric can-openers, gear shifts for cars, TV remotes. I suspect there’s a certain truth to it. It added up to a couple of pounds a year.</p>
<p>I missed post #11,000 yesterday! Am I too late for the champagne? I see there’s confetti all over the floor.</p>
<p>It’s the first official day of summer. Make mine a wine cooler. :)</p>
<p>Never too late! We have a magical champagne fountain, in which the quality of the champagne never deteriorates (don’t tell any one; I am something of a champagne snob).</p>
<p>If you ever lock your car keys inside the car, just spray the lock with champagne. </p>
<p>Hammering out the new cork-dent on the door, that’s another matter. I don’t do tools.</p>
<p>Mathmom… you forgot to remind us old folks that there was a time we actually had to get up and walk to the tv to change the channel…of course we only had @11 to surf with it!</p>
<p>Cheers to everyone who remember who shot JR!</p>
<p>I must abstain…I remember what she looked liked, but not her name</p>
<p>So cheers to everyone who ever undertood how Bobby died in a dream, but on Knots Landing Val amazingly gave birth to his kids and they were what 4 whenthe dream was over! :)</p>
<p>Again I must abstain, but if anyone can figure out how it happened I am more than happy to raise my glass :)</p>
<p>I just love champagne fountains!</p>
<p>And chocolate fondue fountains…</p>
<p>S went to a party the other night where they had a marshmallow fondue fountain! I prefer the champagne, or the chocolate - but marshmallow can also be fun.</p>
<p>Ok how messy must it be to clean a marshmallow fountain. I have a chocolate fountain and it is funny to watch how people swarm it like ants!</p>
<p>Good image, b&p. Like ants or locusts. But doesn’t a “fountain of chocolate” fulfull all your childhood fantasies? :)</p>
<p>OK, I’m here cause I need hot tea and a cookie. I didn’t cry at S’s college graduation, but it just hit me this morning when I was doing some of his laundry (he’s home for a week) that he is leaving tomorrow to visit gf and then off to job orientation/training and work and that’s it. He’s gone. I got all teary-eyed like an idiot.</p>
<p>He’s such a fun guy to have around–smart and interesting and slightly ADD in an endearing absentminded professor way. </p>
<p>And now he won’t have any more “winter break” and “spring break” and he’ll probably opt to visit the gf instead of the parents on his vacations…
Boo-hoo.</p>
<p>mommusic: You SO deserve the tea and cookies. I am going to miss my S so much when he goes to the west coast in September, that I don’t even want to think about 4 years hence when he will truly be gone. He says he never wants to live in the midwest with its frozen winters again. My sympathies to you.</p>
<p>And, yes, I know we will see our kids again and talk with them, and they are going on with their lives in a great adventure . . . but it will never be the same for me. And it sounds like you enjoy his company enormously, as I do with my S. Sigh. </p>
<p>Well, we are going to have the greatest summer ever. Then . . . I’ll survive and thrive somehow.</p>
<p>As I posted on another thread, later I remembered he’s going to a cool city that we plan to enjoy visiting often!</p>
<p>Way to re-frame the situation, mommusic! Would you like some Amaretto in your tea?</p>
<p>Peeps! Pulling up from page THREE.</p>
<p>Just back from my 25th reunion. Sooooooo fun. Slated to rain but the weather held. Happy spring everyone, time for some margaritas.</p>
<p>Guess everyone is outside, enjoying the weather…gardening…cutting the $%#@% grass that keeps growing… :D</p>
<p>We have fiddlehead ferns in our back yard that are springing open. It sounds like a violin concerto out there. Thwong.. Sproing.. and then a hummingbird. I guess she’s the critic from the newspaper. How good is the string section this year?</p>
<p>All of our neighbors have mowed their lawns at least 3 times this year and my H hasn’t done it yet. He likes for the grass to grow seeds and then waits for the seeds to fall off (will happen soon). It is an excellent way to nourish your lawn. Also, there is less gas usage.</p>