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My arm surgeon OT
"Sarah-Sue" wrote in message news On Fri, 21 Sep 2012 00:21:31 +0000 (UTC), Bastette wrote: Christina Websell wrote: "Adrian" wrote in message ... I know you're very fond of Mr F, but maybe it's time to think of trading him in for an automatic. I hope your operation goes well and you get the use of your arm back sooner than you expect. - I will never get rid of Mr F until he cannot be repaired. He's so brilliant. He starts every time I turn. the key. Next week he gets his MoT, hold your breath for Tuesday. Besides I don't know how to drive an automatic. I would be one of those people that drove them into a shop window like you see on the telly. Tweed, if you can drive a stick shift, you can certainly drive an automatic. Automatic transmission requires *less* skill. When I learned how to use a manual transmission I felt "in control" and developed and interest in the mechanics of the vehicle. I'm on your side tweed - keep the automatic as long as possible! Besides, that two leg exercise to engage clutch along with gas is a GREAT exercise! I think you mean keep the gearbox ;-) I wouldn't consider getting rid of Mr F for a mere few weeks until I recover - and besides, getting an automatic wouldn't help as I won't be able to steer a car either. Good luck on your surgery. Sarah_Sue Thank you. Welcome to the group. |
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My arm surgeon OT
"MaryL" wrote in message ... "Christina Websell" wrote in message ... "Adrian" wrote in message ... I know you're very fond of Mr F, but maybe it's time to think of trading him in for an automatic. I hope your operation goes well and you get the use of your arm back sooner than you expect. - I will never get rid of Mr F until he cannot be repaired. He's so brilliant. He starts every time I turn. the key. Next week he gets his MoT, hold your breath for Tuesday. Besides I don't know how to drive an automatic. I would be one of those people that drove them into a shop window like you see on the telly. Tweed ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Anyone who knows how to drive a stick shift also knows how to drive an automatic. With an automatic, you will use only an accelerator and a brake; you will not use a clutch. I learned on a stick shift, and it was child's play to move to an automatic. The reverse (automatic to shift shift) would have been more difficult. Of course, that does not have anything to do with the question of whether you *want* to make the transition. I do understand Adrian's suggestion--an automatic would not place the same strain on your arm and shoulder because you would not have to shift gears. But I luuurve him. He's the most reliable car in the world. And as I said to Sarah Sue, I wouldn't be able to steer a car even if I did trade him for an automatic while my arm recovers so I might as well wait until I can drive Mr F again. He's quite elderly and faces a challenge on Tuesday for his annual test of roadworthiness commonly called MoT (ministry of tranport test) Luckily I have a fantastic mechanic who will service him, take him for The Test and hopefully bring him back with his certificate. He's been looking after Mr F for quite a few years now and once he gets his service and test I can drive my car for another year. After Tony has done his stuff, unless a part fails, like the alternator (once happened) Mr F will be up and running for another year with no problems. In the hailstorm of golfball proportions in June, Mr F got 5 small dents in his roof and a few on his bonnet. My neighbours newer car with thinner metal on the body got written off. More than 250 dents on hers which was parked at the time and I was out driving in it. It was very scary. I thought for sure the windscreen and the sunroof would be smashed by the sheer force of how the hailstones came down and the huge size of them. I pulled into the side of the road until it was over, probably only 10 minutes but it seemed like hours. I've never seen anything like that hailstorm in my life. It occurred in a small area of my county and caused millions of pounds worth of damage. But not to Mr F! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7ML4qydhzk I think they just got the edge of the storm there. A few hailstones were the size of tennis balls where I was. Most were golfball size. Luckily Boyfie missed the whole thing as he was snoozing on his duvet at the time. Phew. Tweed |
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My arm surgeon OT
"MatSav" wrote in message ... "Christina Websell" wrote in message ... "Sharon & Smudgie" wrote in message ... Sending purrs for a successful outcome at your hospital appointment today. I saw a registrar at first, very pleasant chap and he hastened to add that Mr Murty (consultant) would see me after he did. Although he had my notes, he wanted me to tell the whole story again, so I did. Then Mr Murty came in the room and instructed his registrar to look up my nose with one of those scope thingies. I was hoping to avoid it, as it's very uncomfortable, but I guess he has to learn. I was limping just out of plaster at one of my ENT appointments, and Mr Murty remembered and asked me about it. When I told him I had to have yet another op in 3 weeks time he said "Oh, you poor wee thing, haven't you had more than enough?" He's Scottish, obviously. Some hospital consultants are full of themselves - the one who operated on me once for my incisional hernia was like that... ...he swept through the ward to look at his patients on his ward round with all his students around him. I found him to be quite rude, he asked me if I smoked and I desperately wanted to say "you are really hugely fat" but of course, I didn't. He sounds very much like an "old school" surgeon - just like the character played by James Robertson Justice in the "Doctor..." series of films, Sir Lancelot Spratt. (or is that "Sir Lancelot's Pratt"?) :-) well, he messed up my op and I had to be taken into hosp as an emergency a year or so later to have it done again. By another surgeon. Yes. you are right, he was old school, but there's no room for them now in modern hospitals. He wasn't even as nice as Sir Lancelot. |
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My arm surgeon OT
"Christina Websell" wrote in message ... "MaryL" wrote in message ... "Christina Websell" wrote in message ... "Adrian" wrote in message ... I know you're very fond of Mr F, but maybe it's time to think of trading him in for an automatic. I hope your operation goes well and you get the use of your arm back sooner than you expect. - I will never get rid of Mr F until he cannot be repaired. He's so brilliant. He starts every time I turn. the key. Next week he gets his MoT, hold your breath for Tuesday. Besides I don't know how to drive an automatic. I would be one of those people that drove them into a shop window like you see on the telly. Tweed ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Anyone who knows how to drive a stick shift also knows how to drive an automatic. With an automatic, you will use only an accelerator and a brake; you will not use a clutch. I learned on a stick shift, and it was child's play to move to an automatic. The reverse (automatic to shift shift) would have been more difficult. Of course, that does not have anything to do with the question of whether you *want* to make the transition. I do understand Adrian's suggestion--an automatic would not place the same strain on your arm and shoulder because you would not have to shift gears. But I luuurve him. He's the most reliable car in the world. And as I said to Sarah Sue, I wouldn't be able to steer a car even if I did trade him for an automatic while my arm recovers so I might as well wait until I can drive Mr F again. He's quite elderly and faces a challenge on Tuesday for his annual test of roadworthiness commonly called MoT (ministry of tranport test) Luckily I have a fantastic mechanic who will service him, take him for The Test and hopefully bring him back with his certificate. He's been looking after Mr F for quite a few years now and once he gets his service and test I can drive my car for another year. After Tony has done his stuff, unless a part fails, like the alternator (once happened) Mr F will be up and running for another year with no problems. In the hailstorm of golfball proportions in June, Mr F got 5 small dents in his roof and a few on his bonnet. My neighbours newer car with thinner metal on the body got written off. More than 250 dents on hers which was parked at the time and I was out driving in it. It was very scary. I thought for sure the windscreen and the sunroof would be smashed by the sheer force of how the hailstones came down and the huge size of them. I pulled into the side of the road until it was over, probably only 10 minutes but it seemed like hours. I've never seen anything like that hailstorm in my life. It occurred in a small area of my county and caused millions of pounds worth of damage. But not to Mr F! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7ML4qydhzk I think they just got the edge of the storm there. A few hailstones were the size of tennis balls where I was. Most were golfball size. Luckily Boyfie missed the whole thing as he was snoozing on his duvet at the time. Phew. Tweed ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Yes, I can understand an emotional attachment to a car (plus the economic benefits of the car you described). I traded in my car after driving it for 11 years, and I really felt bad about it--it was like getting rid of an old friend, a friend that had been extremely reliable. That car still would have been a good car for someone who did not do a lot of long-distance driving, or a "second car" for a family. However, my sister and I drove 1300 miles (one-way) every summer to visit my parents, and the car had just gotten to an age where "little things" were starting to go bad. I did not want to be stuck in a remote area far from people we knew if something were to go wrong with the car. However, I will make this point concerning the problem you mentioned. That is, you can drive a car with an automatic transmission with one arm. Even if you have one arm in a sling, cars with automatic transmission are so easy to steer that you should have no difficulty steering. The one difficulty you could encounter with *any* car is that you do need to be able to move the gear shift from park to drive and back again. Other than that, there is no need to shift gears. MaryL |
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My arm surgeon OT
"MaryL" wrote in message ... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Yes, I can understand an emotional attachment to a car (plus the economic benefits of the car you described). I traded in my car after driving it for 11 years, and I really felt bad about it--it was like getting rid of an old friend, a friend that had been extremely reliable. That car still would have been a good car for someone who did not do a lot of long-distance driving, or a "second car" for a family. However, my sister and I drove 1300 miles (one-way) every summer to visit my parents, and the car had just gotten to an age where "little things" were starting to go bad. I did not want to be stuck in a remote area far from people we knew if something were to go wrong with the car. However, I will make this point concerning the problem you mentioned. That is, you can drive a car with an automatic transmission with one arm. Even if you have one arm in a sling, cars with automatic transmission are so easy to steer that you should have no difficulty steering. The one difficulty you could encounter with *any* car is that you do need to be able to move the gear shift from park to drive and back again. Other than that, there is no need to shift gears. MaryL Well, Mr F will just have to wait until I can drive him again after my operation. No way would I trade him in for an automatic for a temporary glitch in my ability to change his gears. He's the best car I ever had. He starts first time,always and I don't need a posh car to impress my neighbours. All I want is a car to get me from A to B He gets his test on Tuesday. Please hope he passes it. |
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My arm surgeon OT
"Christina Websell" wrote in message ... "MaryL" wrote in message ... That is, you can drive a car with an automatic transmission with one arm. Even if you have one arm in a sling, cars with automatic transmission are so easy to steer that you should have no difficulty steering. The one difficulty you could encounter with *any* car is that you do need to be able to move the gear shift from park to drive and back again. Other than that, there is no need to shift gears. MaryL Well, Mr F will just have to wait until I can drive him again after my operation. No way would I trade him in for an automatic for a temporary glitch in my ability to change his gears. He's the best car I ever had. He starts first time,always and I don't need a posh car to impress my neighbours. All I want is a car to get me from A to B He gets his test on Tuesday. Please hope he passes it. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Yes, best wishes for Mr. F to pass his test. It sounds like he will pass with flying colors. MaryL |
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My arm surgeon OT
"Christina Websell" wrote in message
... "MaryL" wrote in message ... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Yes, I can understand an emotional attachment to a car (plus the economic benefits of the car you described). I traded in my car after driving it for 11 years, and I really felt bad about it--it was like getting rid of an old friend, a friend that had been extremely reliable. That car still would have been a good car for someone who did not do a lot of long-distance driving, or a "second car" for a family. However, my sister and I drove 1300 miles (one-way) every summer to visit my parents, and the car had just gotten to an age where "little things" were starting to go bad. I did not want to be stuck in a remote area far from people we knew if something were to go wrong with the car. However, I will make this point concerning the problem you mentioned. That is, you can drive a car with an automatic transmission with one arm. Even if you have one arm in a sling, cars with automatic transmission are so easy to steer that you should have no difficulty steering. The one difficulty you could encounter with *any* car is that you do need to be able to move the gear shift from park to drive and back again. Other than that, there is no need to shift gears. MaryL Well, Mr F will just have to wait until I can drive him again after my operation. No way would I trade him in for an automatic for a temporary glitch in my ability to change his gears. He's the best car I ever had. He starts first time,always and I don't need a posh car to impress my neighbours. All I want is a car to get me from A to B He gets his test on Tuesday. Please hope he passes it. I understand. If you have a car that is reliable, you want to keep it. If you've had it long enough, it becomes an old friend. I fully expect to drive my 2000 Toyota Corolla as long as I'm able to drive. Considering the fact that I'm driving a lot less than I used to, and based on the reliability of my previous Corolla, I figure I'll be unfit to drive long before it is. Joy |
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