Automatic doors/windows -- etiquette for the new millenium
09-08-2006, 02:08 PM
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Automatic doors/windows -- etiquette for the new millenium
This whole thread is kinda funny to me -- I just retired my '94 Civic and it had all manual doors and windows -- ya, know, like crank to roll the window up and down. Now, let me tell you, it was a challenge to roll the passenger side window when driving on the freeway, but I managed. Now all you young whippersnappers are complaining of the time burden (2-3 secs?) it takes to open or close a window! 
(Did I mention how long it took to walk to school in 5 feet of snow when I was a kid?)
I'm not quite used to the auto feature yet -- I've often tried to just open the window a bit, and it goes all the way down. It's kind of annoying to me.
This reminds me of another issue related to doors -- I'll start a new post for it...
(Did I mention how long it took to walk to school in 5 feet of snow when I was a kid?)I'm not quite used to the auto feature yet -- I've often tried to just open the window a bit, and it goes all the way down. It's kind of annoying to me.
This reminds me of another issue related to doors -- I'll start a new post for it...
When I'm out on a date, or even just with friends, I typically have gone to the passenger side and opened the door for the passenger to get in. And I have for years used that test with a date, to see whether they in turn unlock my side of the door so that I can get in without the key (if they do, cool, if not, bad). Well, I recently was going out with someone quite a bit younger, and she never unlocked my door for me. I was a bit put off at first, but then I realized that this person probably never had been in a car without automatic doors and so never even thought about it!! So, that test doesn't seem to work anymore!
And what am I supposed to do now? Do people still open the door for a date, or is that totally passe? And women here on the forum to comment? Honestly, it still seems like the courteous thing to do, but pretty useless.
One definite improvement -- I no longer have to worry about the passenger forgetting to lock their door when they get out of the car!
09-08-2006, 02:45 PM
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get out of the car and open the door for her. 
09-08-2006, 02:47 PM
#4
well, I could count the times (with my fingers) when I actually opened the door for a female companion 
. What I can't count is the times when I only pressed the button once and only let myself in and had her outside knocking on the window... 
Yet I always managed to close the deal.... 
You guys are such gentlemen...
. What I can't count is the times when I only pressed the button once and only let myself in and had her outside knocking on the window... Yet I always managed to close the deal.... You guys are such gentlemen...
09-08-2006, 02:55 PM
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Originally Posted by rodneyc77
well, I could count the times (with my fingers) when I actually opened the door for a female companion . What I can't count is the times when I only pressed the button once and only let myself in and had her outside knocking on the window... Yet I always managed to close the deal....
You guys are such gentlemen...
. What I can't count is the times when I only pressed the button once and only let myself in and had her outside knocking on the window... Yet I always managed to close the deal.... You guys are such gentlemen...
as long as you dont drive off without her, it is recoverable.
09-08-2006, 03:36 PM
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Three Wheelin'
Originally Posted by CUNextTuesday
Bronx Tale anyone?
hehe...I did this on the first date of my current gf and we'er still together for almost 6 yrs now...dam thing works! lol....dang that movie!
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