Driving back in the olden days

Date: 07 March 2010 12:43:06

This is Pooka in one of the council plunge pools in the bush. They function to stop the path from flooding. They also are a splendid size for dogs to paddle in. This illustration is not particularly relevant to the rest of the post. So I've been driving my mother's car a bit this week (I don't think I blogged about the Incident involving my car and a mystery jerk who ran into it while I was at work SAVING LIVES....). It's a Ford Festiva from the early 90s. There are several things I miss about my car: 1. Power steering. How can a 2 door hatchback be SO FREAKING HEAVY? It's like steering a tank! Well I've never driven a tank. And maybe they have power steering these days... 2. Air conditioning. 3. Clear windows that don't distort things. Someone who owned the car before my mother applied that tinting film to the windows. I think I can see why that stuff is not so popular. It sucks. 4. Volume/CD/radio controls on the steering wheel. 5. CD player 6. Rear passenger doors. Pooka has to get into the back seat via the boot. Luckily she's very adaptable. 7. Central locking 8. Keyless entry However, on my way to church tonight I was bemoaning the lack of CD player when I noticed that my brother has left one of those cassette-shaped dealies attached to a 3.5mm plug in the car. "Oh but woe is me I don't have my iPod with me" But then I remembered that my Blackberry syncs with iTunes and my Blackberry has a 3.5mm headphone jack. So I could listen to my music via the Blackberry and the cassette deck. The point of this post is that those adaptor things are really very clever. I wonder who invented them.