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Subject: FW: Grid Routines
From: "Kevin Stevens" <Kevin_Stevens@Bigfoot.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 21:06:22 -0700
Is this what y'all were asking for?

KeS

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-autox@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-autox@autox.team.net]On
> Behalf Of John Coffey
> Sent: Thursday, July 01, 1999 16:59
> To: autox@autox.team.net
> Subject: Grid Routines
> 
> 
> And now for something completely different...
> 
> Here's my routine when getting into the car on grid at an autocross:
> 
> 1.    Get in the car.
> 2.    Strap myself in (5 point harness).
> 3.    Realize the keys to the car are in my front pocket.
> 4.    Unstrap.
> 5.    Get out of the car and get the keys out of my pocket.
> 6.    Get in the car.
> 7.    Strap myself in.
> 8.    Put the keys in the ignition.
> 9.    Notice my helmet sitting on the passenger floor.
> 10.   Unstrap.
> 11.   Put the helmet on the passenger seat.
> 12.   Strap myself in.
> 13.   Notice the driver's door is still open.
> 14.   Wonder why the guy next to me on grid thinks this is so funny.
> 15.   Unstrap.
> 16.   Close the driver's door on the lap belt.
> 17.   Try to strap back in.
> 18.   Open the door to free up the lap belt.
> 19.   Strap myself in.
> 20.   Notice the driver's door is still open.
> 21.   Start getting irritated at guy next to me on grid who is cackling like a
> chicken.
> 22.   Put helmet on head, scraping glasses down nose and onto the floor.
> 23.   Take helmet off.
> 24.   Unstrap.
> 25.   Pickup glasses.
> 26.   Strap myself in.
> 27.   Notice my helmet sitting on the passenger floor.
> 28.   Decide the guy next to me on grid is having a coronary by the way he's
> twitching and jerking.
> 29.   Unstrap.
> 30.   Put the helmet on my head.
> 31.   Try to strap myself in but I can't see the latch because of the helmet.
> 32.   Take helmet off, carefully putting it on the passenger seat.
> 33.   Strap myself in.
> 34.   Starting to hope the coronary the guy is going through finishes soon.
> 35.   Put helmet on.
> 36.   Notice glasses on passenger side of dash.
> 37.   Unstrap.
> 38.   Put glasses on.
> 39.   Strap myself in.
> 40.   The guy next to me must be dead 'cuz I can't see him sitting up in the
> car anymore.
> 
> ---------------
> John Coffey
> johncof@ibm.net
> 
> 

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