Who Knows Your Car Best?

Here are two tips from a list of ten to help us get along with our cars better:

2) Learn your service schedule. The people who built your car know it best.

8) Listen for any strange sounds or vibrations. You know your vehicle better than anyone.

[Trevor Traina, "Easy Ways to Get More from Your Car", Huffington Post, 12 January 2009.]

So, who really knows best, the people who built my car or me?

Is it any wonder that this reads to me like vacuous, cliched writing that really doesn't have anything to say that I need to listen to?

Posted on January 12, 2009 at 13.30 by jns · Permalink
In: All, Feeling Peevish, Writing

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  1. Written by Bill Morrison
    on Monday, 12 January 2009 at 17.42
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    Developing our inner curmudgeon are we?

  2. Written by jns
    on Monday, 12 January 2009 at 18.07
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    Yes, "developing" I suppose since I'm pretty sure that this one has always been there, the one who rolls his eyes and sniffs when people write without thinking and expect others to read what they've written.

    Perhaps I will keep these examples in the folder marked "Door to Remain Closed at All Times".

  3. Written by Wayne
    on Friday, 16 January 2009 at 10.57
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    So will the letter that the name Jeff begins with be J or j? We'll see in a moment.

    My inner curmudgeon was over the brim quite some time back. As a result, I like this post.

  4. Written by Bill Morrison
    on Friday, 16 January 2009 at 11.36
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    Jeff wrote:
    Perhaps I will keep these examples in the folder marked "Door to Remain Closed at All Times".

    Reminds me of the wonderful sign on the inside of the gate in the parking garage here. As you approach the gate you read: "Please be sure gate is closed before proceeding."

  5. Written by jns
    on Friday, 16 January 2009 at 12.19
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    And now you remind me of another favorite, Bill. At a particularly difficult merging near Washington, DC, where two major highways come together, there's a huge sign above the merge that says "Use All Lanes". I frequently thought many drivers tried to do just that.

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