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Old March 11th 05, 03:00 AM
Jeff Strickland
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"Ignasi Palou-Rivera" > wrote in message
news:1110487828.211c6013eff02f18205c06914f09b2e3@t eranews...
> "Dave Plowman (News)" > writes:
>> In article >,
>> Jeff Strickland > wrote:
>>> Sorry, I have done all of those things. And I do them with out resorting
>>> to using the handbrake. I just don't understand the problem, I have no
>>> trouble drving my car in these condidions. I have to admit, I seldom
>>> find myslef in these situations, except that the local supermarket
>>> driveway is a relatively steep hill. But, I have no problem whenever I
>>> do find myself in the situations you describe. Sorry that my life is so
>>> simple.

>>
>> If you're saying you live in a flat part of the world, I'm not surprised
>> you find the handbrake ok.

>
> For some strange "cultural" reason people here in the US are very
> adverse to using the hand brake. (They even call it the parking
> brake. Sheesh.)
>
> My own wife (American) freaks out when I used it to hold her car on
> the ramp to move out of the underground garage in our building. She
> feels more comfortable if I hold the car using the clutch! It doesn't make
> sense.
>
> Then there were my grad school roommates not being too fond on me using
> the handbrake to park the car at an angle when we got a lot of snow
> around...
>


I hold my car with the BRAKES. I take my foot off the brake and place it on
the gas, and go. What's the big deal?




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