Categories: all aviation bicycle gadgets misc motorcycle theater

Thu, 26 Jul 2007

He was so lazy... How lazy was he?

I'm being sent to San Jose in a few weeks to help deal with a big thingy at work. I was informed that I might need to drive myself offsite to do some datacenter work, and that I should reserve a rental car.

So, I went to the site, and added a car to my reservation thing. There were two checkboxes under "Options:"

I thought to myself, Huh, cool, maybe I can get a manual! I unchecked the "Automatic Transmission" checkbox to see what would happen. The form was rejected, saying "No cars meet the requested criteria" and I was urged to go try again.

Then it hit me: we are a nation so incredibly lazy, that we can't even be bothered to shift the gears of the transmissions in our massively wasteful labor-saving devices.

Posted at 14:18 permanent link category: /misc

Categories: all aviation gadgets misc motorcycle theater

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