Mobile Home: Motive presents a guide to in-car living
Motive has the skinny on what you should know if you need to crash -- for a few weeks, that is -- in your car. Of course, the first advice is to get a minivan or SUV with tinted windows. However, if things have come to the point where reclining seats are your bed, you probably aren't in a position to double-down on a Vanagon. Some of the tips you might have guessed: get earplugs, don't subsist on the McDonald's dollar menu, and don't bathe in fountains. Others you might not have expected: put fabric softener sheets under the seats, park in Wal-Mart lots overnight if you need, and Panera Bread and Dunkin' Donuts have free wi-fi. And no matter what, don't try to hide your keys somewhere on the car and then think you can get blasted on two-buck-chuck inside the car. That's called Operating Under the Influence. Click the link for the other tips in a thoroughly entertaining read that you will hopefully never need to take advantage of.
[Source: Motive]
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DreamTheater 10:20AM (9/04/2008)
Very amusing read... Been through that myself a couple years ago... Thank God I had bought a van that was converted into a Camper by the previous owners for just $250 the year before... all mod cons so I spent the summer down by the seaside on the very cheap... lol
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DKB_SATX 10:55AM (9/04/2008)
Typically if you're blotto in the BACK of the vehicle, the worst any cop would run you in for would be public intoxication. Now, if you behave like a jerk or puke on the officer's shoes, you're not likely to get the best-case scenario...
If you're blitzed in the driver seat, even if you're parked with the keys in your pocket or elsewhere, the assumption is that you were thinking about driving when you passed out.
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G-Meister 2:36PM (9/04/2008)
Thinking about driving constitutes as much of a crime as thinking about anything else illegal.
Keith Griffin 12:07PM (9/04/2008)
Ezra Dyer covered this same topic in Esquire last year.
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sdcarnut 8:41PM (9/04/2008)
Alot of people prob dont know the reference 2 buck chuck,, its a wine they sell at a place called Trader Joes for $1.99, we dont have Trader joes in the south, i moved to california 4 years ago and heard about 2 buck chuck and said ok i gotta try it just once. Now my official nickname for this wine is called 2 buck upchuck !!
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Jason Lancaster 6:33PM (9/09/2008)
I used to sell cars, and one time I was showing this older man a $50k SUV. He told me that his first house cost half the amount on the sticker. I said "but sir, you can live this in SUV."
I thought it was funny, but he thought I was a jerk car salesman. I guess I was...but it still makes me laugh.
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Christoph 10:54AM (10/21/2008)
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