06-30-2007, 04:29 PM
I hope I can post this. I have been having computer issues that have prevented me from doing certain things in AFF. Some firewall I'm dealing with is causeing this problem I'm having.
In my country, the United States, there have been a very good number of people that have died from heat with in vehicles. Years ago there was an article about a woman who worked as a waitress. She couldn't get a baby sitter, and she had left her daughter alone inside. This was sometime in the summer. Not a safe time, because here (espetialy toward the south) the temp. goes from the mid 90s to at least 102 each year. It's getting hotter around the world I heard. Anyhow, the child was found dead of heat stroke, and the mother went on trial. I don't know the results.
My sister got a new car, and I'm so happy for her. She now has air conditioning so she won't have to recover when she arrives at work. The last time I whitnessed her 'dealing with the heat' she was red all over and shaking uncontrolably. That was when it was 104 degrees, and we were traveling somewhere. She just couldn't take anymore, and I thought she was going to go uncontious or something. Her older car had a broken air conditioner for a long tome, and opening a window doesn't help! WHY?! Because only a little breeze, not even wind for that matter, brushes our hair while the car is at least 125 degrees.
My car is also having that problem and then some. The passenger floor is covered in mold, the fabric on the roof is missing, the head lights have repeatidly failed and put me in dangerous situations in traffic, ect. Something is always broken. We could only get half of my car repaired last time, and that was the engine with oil or whatever. Something else is wrong with it, and we can't get it fixed. Even if I drive it, it will fail to function correctly some how. Thousands of our dollars in finance have been put into that molded smurf car. We have to sell it (my car) as well, because we just don't have the money to fix, and fix, and fix, and FIX it all the time.
My air conditioner also didn't work, and I sweated so badly inside it one day before thinking "enough of this!". It was 105 outside, and honestly it would have felt better just to walk for a few miles, rather than get into a car. Thankfully, I had the money to buy an ice cole coffie shake, which almost kept me cool enough as I drove. The air came in a little bit, but it still didn't cool down enough of the car. how hot it was inside, I will likely never know. I went inside and my face was red, and I sweated all over my clothing. Thus, opening a window doesn't do squat, and that fact that someone just said "just open the window" like it will solve the whole problem, and like I'm some whiney snobish peon really made me mad!
I then recieved this as a reply from the guy acting as if maintaining a 20 something year old car was a piece of cake, "It must be an NT thing". I wrote "WHAT?!", thinking "The nerve. How can you suddenly act like that? Here I'm just talking about a car, and without knowing the condition of my old, to be sold car, I'm written to by some guy as if "oh it's just easy if you bothered trying". Seriously, if it was that !#$% easy.. I WOULD HAVE DONE THAT ALREADY!
Anyway, it sure feels nice to be writing something here again. I hope I can reply to one of my private mails like I wanted to soon. My point is this... if you live in a cool temperatured country, where it's normal for temp to be around 70-80, don't tell someone else that opening a window fixes the whole handfull of problems. It isn't considerate, in my oppinion. Not blaming anyone though. Someone elsewhere just ticked me off like crazy.
[edit] typo fixed upon request [couldbecousin]
In my country, the United States, there have been a very good number of people that have died from heat with in vehicles. Years ago there was an article about a woman who worked as a waitress. She couldn't get a baby sitter, and she had left her daughter alone inside. This was sometime in the summer. Not a safe time, because here (espetialy toward the south) the temp. goes from the mid 90s to at least 102 each year. It's getting hotter around the world I heard. Anyhow, the child was found dead of heat stroke, and the mother went on trial. I don't know the results.
My sister got a new car, and I'm so happy for her. She now has air conditioning so she won't have to recover when she arrives at work. The last time I whitnessed her 'dealing with the heat' she was red all over and shaking uncontrolably. That was when it was 104 degrees, and we were traveling somewhere. She just couldn't take anymore, and I thought she was going to go uncontious or something. Her older car had a broken air conditioner for a long tome, and opening a window doesn't help! WHY?! Because only a little breeze, not even wind for that matter, brushes our hair while the car is at least 125 degrees.
My car is also having that problem and then some. The passenger floor is covered in mold, the fabric on the roof is missing, the head lights have repeatidly failed and put me in dangerous situations in traffic, ect. Something is always broken. We could only get half of my car repaired last time, and that was the engine with oil or whatever. Something else is wrong with it, and we can't get it fixed. Even if I drive it, it will fail to function correctly some how. Thousands of our dollars in finance have been put into that molded smurf car. We have to sell it (my car) as well, because we just don't have the money to fix, and fix, and fix, and FIX it all the time.
My air conditioner also didn't work, and I sweated so badly inside it one day before thinking "enough of this!". It was 105 outside, and honestly it would have felt better just to walk for a few miles, rather than get into a car. Thankfully, I had the money to buy an ice cole coffie shake, which almost kept me cool enough as I drove. The air came in a little bit, but it still didn't cool down enough of the car. how hot it was inside, I will likely never know. I went inside and my face was red, and I sweated all over my clothing. Thus, opening a window doesn't do squat, and that fact that someone just said "just open the window" like it will solve the whole problem, and like I'm some whiney snobish peon really made me mad!
I then recieved this as a reply from the guy acting as if maintaining a 20 something year old car was a piece of cake, "It must be an NT thing". I wrote "WHAT?!", thinking "The nerve. How can you suddenly act like that? Here I'm just talking about a car, and without knowing the condition of my old, to be sold car, I'm written to by some guy as if "oh it's just easy if you bothered trying". Seriously, if it was that !#$% easy.. I WOULD HAVE DONE THAT ALREADY!
Anyway, it sure feels nice to be writing something here again. I hope I can reply to one of my private mails like I wanted to soon. My point is this... if you live in a cool temperatured country, where it's normal for temp to be around 70-80, don't tell someone else that opening a window fixes the whole handfull of problems. It isn't considerate, in my oppinion. Not blaming anyone though. Someone elsewhere just ticked me off like crazy.
[edit] typo fixed upon request [couldbecousin]
We are working on getting it sold. My sister is doing the same with her old car. I don't think anyone will want it though. It's not really in the best shape. Typical, considering the cars my family always had, which have also broken down on many occasions before we got rid of them.