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Ever since the Fantastic Four movie was on tv a couple of weeks back, we've been wondering how I could have already seen it when L hadn't. Did it come out just before we got together? But I didn't go to the cinema on my own in that period, and I didn't go with my ex either. And I haven't been on my own since hooking up with L. Maybe they were lying about it being the tv premiere?
So we got around to watching it last night, and it turns out I hadn't seen the last 15 minutes or so; but L genuinely hadn't seen it, it wasn't just that she'd forgotten it, not that she does forget that kind of stuff anyway.
The only explanation we can come up with is that L's oldestbestestfriend's kids had in on DVD when we were visiting at some point. Took us 2 weeks to work that out, though.
Do you ever find yourself reaching for 6th gear, then remembering your car doesn't have one?
So we got around to watching it last night, and it turns out I hadn't seen the last 15 minutes or so; but L genuinely hadn't seen it, it wasn't just that she'd forgotten it, not that she does forget that kind of stuff anyway.
The only explanation we can come up with is that L's oldestbestestfriend's kids had in on DVD when we were visiting at some point. Took us 2 weeks to work that out, though.
Do you ever find yourself reaching for 6th gear, then remembering your car doesn't have one?
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I've not so far driven a 6-gear car. I regularly drive a 5-speed Sierra 2.3D and a couple of Morris Minors (a 1000 and a series MM, both 4-speed), and I have been known to try and get 5th. gear in the Minor 1000 once or twice. Doing that could potentially be very noisy, as reverse on the 1000 is back from where 5th would be if it had one. Luckily I didn't move the lever back.
Geoff has a '39 Morris pick-up truck with a 3-speed gearbox (it's off the road at the moment, though). That gearbox is a law unto itself, with very little, if any synchro left on second and top, and with a very big gap in ratio terms between them too - there's no third gear where there really needs to be one. It's good fun to drive, though; I hope it'll be back on the road some time this year.
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Not have I!
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That's a metaphor for my life that is.
OK - maybe metaphor is the wrong word but you know what I mean.
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Oh yes, I know that feeling only too well. And I frequently put a 4 gear car into 5th. For some reason it seems not to work too well.