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[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Drove into work to get my work schedule for next week (yay for vacation!)

On the way home, I stopped at a stoplight behind somebody with their trunk open, and nothing inside sticking out to hold the trunk lid open.

[SG15Z]

Maybe they're airing it out?

[Danno]

I saw something similar recently. While stopped at an intersection, the trunk of the car in front of me suddenly popped wide open.

Amazingly, the driver didn't seem to notice. She made her left turn and drove away when the light finally changed.

[El Pollo Guerrera]

Drove into work to get my work schedule for next week (yay for vacation!)

On the way home, I stopped at a stoplight behind somebody with their trunk open, and nothing inside sticking out to hold the trunk lid open.

A mob hit where the victim got away?


"HEY, VITTO, WHAT'S THE ******* TRUCK DOIN' OPEN?"

"HEY, DON'T LOOK AT ME, YOU PUT HIM IN THE TRUNK!"

"HEY, I'M LOADIN' HIS *** IN THE ******* TRUNK, YOU GOTTA SLAM THE ******* LID CLOSED! HOW COULD YOU ******* SCREW THAT UP?"

"HEY, YOU TELL ME TO KEEP A LOOKOUT, I'M KEEPIN' A ******* LOOKOUT! HOW COME YOU DIDN'T SLAM THE ******* LID?"

"HEY, I FIND THE ******* GUY, I KICK THE **** OUTTA THE ******* GUY, I LOAD THE ******* GUY INTO THE ******* TRUNK... DO I GOTTA DO EVERYTHING AROUND HERE?"

"NO, YOU DON'T GOTTA DO EVERYTHING AROUND HERE, BUT YOU GOTTA BE SMART ENOUGH TO SLAM THE ******* TRUNK!"





















"The boss is gonna be so mad..."

[IEatCustomers4Breakfast]

My fiance's old car's trunk didn't latch... if he didn't have it held on by a bungee cord, it would have done the same.

[greek_jester]

My old Ford Fiesta had a problem with the catch (as did a friend's Escort). It was quite easy to fix without getting out around where we lived - the local council, rather than spending money on educating children & adults on how to cross the road safely, laid down 'sleeping policemen' road bumps along most of the side roads in the town. All you had to do to slam the boots closed was drive over one of the sleeping policemen quickly. Pity about the spines of anyone sitting in the back seats...

[Broomjockey]

'sleeping policemen' road bumps

I'm not familiar with this term. How do they differ from regular speed bumps?

Also, I read that incorrectly at first. I missed the "road bumps" part. It made it quite a different read. o_O

[Chanlin]

I'm not familiar with this term. How do they differ from regular speed bumps?

Sleeping Policeman is just slang for a speed hump there is not difference from a regular or standard speed hump. Not sure of how it originated.

[Pagan]

Sleeping Policeman is just slang for a speed hump there is not difference from a regular or standard speed hump. Not sure of how it originated.

I'm thinking because it's usually the police that will pop you for speeding. And speed bumps are supposed to slow you down. So, it's like a cop laying down to keep you from speeding? Except that most people go slow over them and then like bats-out-of-hell between them!

[Chromatix]

Pagan is about right.

And more recently, the SUVs just go flying over them anyway because their suspension travel covers them. I think people are encouraging chicanes instead for this reason. But they were effective enough to begin with - especially as people would tend to avoid using humped roads as "rat runs".

[DGoddessChardonnay]

A mob hit where the victim got away?


"HEY, VITTO, WHAT'S THE ******* TRUCK DOIN' OPEN?"

"HEY, DON'T LOOK AT ME, YOU PUT HIM IN THE TRUNK!"

"HEY, I'M LOADIN' HIS *** IN THE ******* TRUNK, YOU GOTTA SLAM THE ******* LID CLOSED! HOW COULD YOU ******* SCREW THAT UP?"

"HEY, YOU TELL ME TO KEEP A LOOKOUT, I'M KEEPIN' A ******* LOOKOUT! HOW COME YOU DIDN'T SLAM THE ******* LID?"

"HEY, I FIND THE ******* GUY, I KICK THE **** OUTTA THE ******* GUY, I LOAD THE ******* GUY INTO THE ******* TRUNK... DO I GOTTA DO EVERYTHING AROUND HERE?"

"NO, YOU DON'T GOTTA DO EVERYTHING AROUND HERE, BUT YOU GOTTA BE SMART ENOUGH TO SLAM THE ******* TRUNK!

Why am I imagining this exchange using the voices of Joe Pesci and Robert DeNiro?

[Imogene]

I'm hearing it in the voices of Lily Tomlin, Jane Fonda, and Dolly Parton... (In 9 to 5, they steal a dead body that they think is their boss, and tear through town like a bat out of hell... only stopping when they nearly wreck, and have to go into the trunk to get a crowbar, and then they see it isn't their boss)