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Maegan
in Tampa, FL - USA
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Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2005 | 05:53 AM
I don't carry a hammer in my car. Maybe that's just a European thing. |
Boo
in The Land of the Haggii...
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Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2005 | 08:26 AM
Not sure if it's a European thing, necessarily.
I suppose that (if I had a car) I'd have things like screwdrivers in the boot. But a hammer does seem a little bizarre.
Apart from using to attack things (or, I suppose, to defend yourself), is there any use for one in a car? |
Charybdis
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Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2005 | 08:38 AM
Hammers have a myriad of uses in a car :
Removing really tight lugnuts
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taking out your frustrations on the POS car that couldn't have waited just five - FIVE freaking more minutes before ripping your transmission to little grindy pieces instead of stranding you in the turn lane with the nearest place to push it over a hunder feet away, goddammit. |
Boo
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Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2005 | 08:58 AM
You seem cross, chary... |
Maegan
in Tampa, FL - USA
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Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2005 | 09:48 AM
I don't carry screwdriver's...I have pliers, and wrenches. I used to carry one of those screwdrivers were the end flips around & it can be phillips or flat head. I don't know that there is much in my car that needs a screwdriver.
And for tight lugnuts...don't ya just need a good push?? |
Boo
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Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2005 | 09:53 AM
Hmm, yes, pliers and wrenches are probably of more use. Like I said (or didn't, I suppose) I don't drive, so I have no idea of techy-car things.
I love the phrase 'tight lugnuts'.
I'm laughing and I don't know why.
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Charybdis
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Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2005 | 10:24 AM
I used to carry one of those screwdrivers were the end flips around & it can be phillips or flat head. - Maegan
OMG A woman actually called it a Phillips screwdriver. Never, ever have I heard one do that. It's always "the star shaped one". |
Winona
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Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2005 | 10:39 AM
It is because it makes more sense that way...descriptive is good. 
It's kind of like how I would say "to get there, go down three blocks and turn left at the Jewel Food store, and go until you see a purple house on the left hand side.". You might say go to Johnson St., turn left onto Market St., and it's number XXX, 10th house on the left".
I can picture mine easier. |
Boo
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Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2005 | 10:59 AM
Phillips is a cross head screwdriver? |
Charybdis
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Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2005 | 11:05 AM
Just 'cause I know you're dying for more info - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillips_Head |
Boo
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Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2005 | 11:08 AM
Right, so.
As I said, Phillips is another name for a cross head screwdriver.
I have never heard it referred to as a phillips. I always say cross head.
Sheesh, ask a simple question...
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Myst
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Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2005 | 03:01 PM
I knew a guy who got so pissed off at his car while he was trying to remove the transmission that he unloaded his 9 mm into said car. It didn't help the problem of course, but he said it made him feel better at least until he got a ticket for discharging a firearm in city limits. Dummy! LOL |
Winona
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Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2005 | 03:06 PM
Yikes, I can't imagine having a temper bad enough to do something like that... |
Raoul
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Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2005 | 03:26 PM
This tragic woman should have owned a '67 Plymouth Satellite, like my Chariot of Fire. I have only taken a hammer to her once, and that was to tap in a new freeze plug. Cars are like women; treat them well. Rrrraoul |
Rod
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Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2005 | 03:51 PM
Hammers are handy when you're trapped in a car and need to break a window to get out.
For example when you end up in a body of water, you can't open the doors until the pressure equalizes. To equalize the pressure, almost all of the air has to be evacuated. Using the hammer just gets it done quicker.
It's also handy when you need to get out after you have hit the ditch in deep snow or mud and the doors won't open, and for some reason the windows won't roll down. |
Mark-N-Isa
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Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2005 | 04:03 PM
If the car was an old piece of crap which she'd been having lots of trouble with she might have had a hammer for this reason. Sometimes when a "starter" goes out on a car you can get it to work by tapping it with a hammer. This loosens any debris around the brushes and between the connections and therfore allows the starter to work. I've done this before when a starter went out on an old pick-up truck I owned. The trick was taught to me by my grandfather. I called him when I was stuck at a grocery store. He showed up with only a hammer to which I replied..."Just what are you going to accomplish with that?" He reached under the truck, tapped my starter a few times with the hammer, and voila... it started! I was able to put off replacing the starter for another 3 months or so by using the tapping trick whenver the starter decided it didn't want to work... |
Rod
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Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2005 | 04:04 PM
Of course, she COULD just be into cracking walnuts as she drives...
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Nettie
in Perth, Western Australia
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Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2005 | 06:33 AM
It's a good trick isn't it Mark. My brother in law used to carry a cricket bat in his car for that same reason. Looked hilarious but very effective. |
Boo
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Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2005 | 06:44 AM
I'm wondering if that isn't what she was trying to do, rather than just attacking it.. |
Nettie
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Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2005 | 06:57 AM
I don't know. I find violence is a very effective stress reliever! |
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