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Waterproof foam pads on the corners of shopping trolleys would prevent a lot of those little dents which mysteriously appear on your new car.
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[po, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 05 2004]
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Baked, but they're plastic, not foam. |
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Maybe we should consider just commuting via Hoppity-Hops. Do you remember those--those big red balls with the handles that little kids straddle and bounce around on? Wrecks would be fun (think bumper cars), insurance would be minimal, and it would take us days and days to get to work, which brings us to the one-day work week, which, if not practical for employers, would certainly be embraced by us wage slaves. |
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By the way, I'm voting for both the door-ding protector and the replacing cars with Hoppity-Hops, although if the second becomes baked, the first is obsolete. |
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Centauri, the plastic ones don't prevent dings. They protect the cart, not the car. |
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Was a wonderful Basil Wolverton cartoon* involving a circular car with pneumatic hammers arranged pointing radially outward. Get too close, WHAM!
[*in "Sports Cars We'd Like to See," Mad #137 (Sep 1970), thank goodness for Google!] |
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If you mean the Volkswagen ad, you can see that on adcritic.com (or you used to be able to...) |
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The sad thing is i've done that before. At my work the shopping carts seem to run free. (hmm... free range shopping carts?). Customers often give them a good shove to distance it from their own veichels, and because the carts are cheap/old they rarely travel where aimed (something else that could use improvement). A fast paced cart headed for the driver side front door of my car got me to super-man-style dive towards it. |
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I saved the car door, but destroyed my knee and a good shirt. Dented the cart in the fall as well (more room for improvements?) |
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I thought this was about preventing your ding getting caught in the door! |
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Alternately, use the carts to run over the gnomes who are *really* responsible for door dings. Goddamned little fairymolesters. |
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Good idea, last year some goon of a trolley boy lost control of a stack of trolleys down a ramp and the whole lot piled into the side of my car.
[ub] I don't think you can generalise about gnomes like that. |
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Must be invisible gnomes then... |
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While working at a retail/grocery store a few years back, I witnessed something of a shopping cart phenomenon. |
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After finding my color-changing car (depending on the type of lighting it can change from a deep violet to rose red) one night after work, the wind picked up something fierce as I was unlocking the car door. I mean just out of nowhere BANG: from calm to 40 MPH winds. Quite spectacular in itself, but adding to the effect was the 20-some shopping cars left neglected in the parking lot. Picture 2 dozen shopping carts coming to life each targeting the automobile of their choice. |
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My car was safe and sound up-wind, but there were quite a few casualties for the late-night shoppers. The best part of this whole tale was when I jumped in my car, sped up across the parking lot, matched the velocity of a hurtling cart, and eased it to a stop with my rear bumper. |
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True story. The applauding audience was only in my head, sadly. |
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These may not catch the random shopping cart event, but should fend off the next car's door dings. |
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Check out http://dingdefender.com |
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