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Old 12-16-2012, 05:31 PM   #1421 (permalink)
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When you plan your driving trips like a D day invasion !

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Old 12-16-2012, 07:41 PM   #1422 (permalink)
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when its about -11c and you are 100% grill block and you count on your heater to cool your engine
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Old 12-18-2012, 11:30 PM   #1423 (permalink)
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you know you're an ecomodder when you still get emails that someone has responded to your thread or a thread you subscibed to. . .4 years later
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Old 12-19-2012, 02:51 PM   #1424 (permalink)
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YKYAEI a police officer makes a thumbs up sign to you because your going under the highway minimum in a snow tempest.
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Old 12-19-2012, 04:06 PM   #1425 (permalink)
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When you proved you were rite about the extra mileage, but are now walking to the service station with an empty antifreeze jug.
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Old 12-19-2012, 04:57 PM   #1426 (permalink)
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You're unhappy about getting only 50mpg in winter.
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Old 12-19-2012, 05:42 PM   #1427 (permalink)
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when you're cars so aerodynamiclly right that you need a drag chute to slow down on hills, gee good idea!
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Old 12-19-2012, 05:46 PM   #1428 (permalink)
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when all the people who were tailing you suddenly back off as you all roll through a radar trap going the speed limit, quietly thanking you , or alternativly , this really happened to me a guy got so frustrated i was driving the speed limit he passed me on a curve where a state trooper, just pointed to him and pulled him right over, LOL
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Old 12-19-2012, 07:03 PM   #1429 (permalink)
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When you put a blanket over your refrigerator to hold in the cold, saving money to buy your pizza pan wheel covers, I figure they make hot water heater blankets, why not frigde blankets, course leave the back open .
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Old 12-19-2012, 10:34 PM   #1430 (permalink)
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After a blizzard you carefully create the perfect bodyshape on your snow covered car, and your neighbors!
Yup - BTDT.

YKYAEI you're bummed because its too cold and dark out to work on the car.

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