Re: Do people want a hard copy of the owners' manual for their car?

[jennysubs -at- mac -dot- com]

Me too.

I was in the grocery store parking lot a couple weeks ago and a  
woman's car alarm had started and she couldn't figure out how to turn  
it off. To make matters worse, the car wouldn't start, so she couldn't  
drive away from the scene.  She was quite flustered when I walked over  
with the manual from my car (same make/model, different year). We were  
able to get it to stop in less than two minutes with the instructions,  
much to the relief of everyone in that busy parking lot. It was not  
obvious, and the handy instructions were necessary.

I try to be a good neighbor, but I don't think I would have run home  
to get a laptop and fired up a DVD to help.

Jenny


On Sep 22, 2009, at 12:39 PM, Nancy Allison wrote:

> Oh, man. Something is wrong with my car, and I'm probably in a rush,  
> and I'm trying to find out if I can fix it . . . the LAST thing I  
> would want to have to do is fire up the laptop to locate some online  
> document somewhere.
>
> Give me a beat-up manual in the glove box any day.
>
> --Nancy
>
>

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