Thursday, July 28, 2011

Progress

$278 to replace a car key. Computer chip, you know. And the car won't start without it.

My first car: flip up the switch on the steering column, press clutch to floorboard, thereby punching starter button. No key needed, unless, of course you wished to lock everything up, and then a coat-hanger would work as a substitute if you lost the key. But no one locked anyway.

Isn't progess/technology wonderful?

(Of course, when you were buying your used car for $35, it can hardly be compared to the $60,000 set of wheels you have now. But a stranded car is a walking driver, no matter how you look at it. No, wait. Take you phone out of your pocket and ...)


Daddy, what's a clutch?

1 comment:

vanilla said...

Vee, yeah, so I'm 84, Big deal. Actually, it is sort of a big deal! I believe I once read an article on the price of a car "per piece" and you are right. Maybe even more than three times as much.