Saturday, August 4, 2018

Lessons Learned

Lesson 1:  A full size box spring will not fit in the back of even a large SUV.  We learned this today when my son and daughter-in-law moved the standard size bed I was giving them.
Lesson 2:  You can secure a box spring to the luggage rack on top of your SUV if you have enough rope.  Lucky for us the manager of the apartment complex where I live had some she could loan us.  
Lesson 3:  My cell phone can be put on 'speaker phone'.  I had never needed this feature before and didn't know I had it (my cell phone being of the not quite so smart variety). I was to follow my son to his house to make sure the box spring stayed secure on top of his car.  The reasoning being that if it flew off and landed on my car I wouldn't sue him.  Happily it stayed put all the way to their house and we were able to converse all the way which was very handy.
Lesson 4:  Before we started out on our cross city slow drive I tried to find the button in my car to turn on the flashers so I could indicate to cars behind us that we were moving slowly.  I couldn't find such a control anywhere. I even tried the car manual - which was no help at all.  so I followed along without flashers and it was ok because I was able to signal turns for both of us.  Later in the day, I had to take another drive, on a completely unrelated matter and happened to glance down at the center display on my dashboard, below the radio controls was a big red one-inch square button clearly marked with a little emergency symbol. And, surprise, surprise, when I pushed the button my flashers came on. I hope I never need this knowledge again but it's good to know I can flash someone when I want to. Wait    .... that didn't sound right. 

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