FYI

(This is an old forum post I found from Aug '08.)


If ever you get out of your car when it's running, make sure you put in
in park and don't assume having the E brake on will be enough. Also, you
might want to let your kids know that they don't have to press the
button on the E brake to raise it higher in case you go around the back
to re-close the hatchback and the car starts slowly rolling down on you
and you yell at them to pull the brake tighter. In fact, skip that part
and just have them put it in park so they don't press the brake's
button, releasing it completely, so the car comes rolling down really
fast and you're trying to push against it while running backwards and
you're almost all the way across the street before he jumps in the front
seat and slams on the foot break and puts it in park just as you are
about to get mowed down. You might also want to alert them to the fact
that the brake peddle is the one on the left, in case they didn't happen
to see it used one day long ago and have a good memory and then you
thank your lucky stars they happened to know that so they could slam it
down rather than mashing the gas and killing you because you were too
panicked to properly tell them what to do.

I also managed to electrocute myself today.

Thanks, I'll be here all night (if I can manage to keep myself alive
that long.