Quite the pile
Don’t ask me why Shelley keeps antifreeze in a milk container. Well, you can ask me if you want. My guess is her Dad gave it to her. He buys it by the drum, so there was some decanting involved. You have to let the antifreeze breathe.
You use antifreeze in windscreen washers in the UK? We United Statesians just use cleaning fluid marketed for precisely that purpose. ๐
She means washer fluid.
Okay. Certainly alcohol-based, then. I’ve never seen it in concentrated form, but a master of the supply chain and volume maintenance purchasing could find some. Or, you know, mix it yourself.
United Staesians. …Y’all actually said that. Well, bless your heart, from us Americans to you.
…’Scuse me. “United Statesians”. (Y’all know we can type and spell just fine. I ain’t no hick, hain’t got no problems with talkin’, neither…but you knew that.)
For windshields? I think I use a mixture of water, some kind of alcohol, and a little detergent. Standard premixed stuff. It’s a bad bad idea to use ethylene glycol in your wiper fluid. It tastes sweet and causes liver failure in the children and animals that drink it–hopefully adults are smart enough not to, but it has been used to murder unwanted family members over time.
It attacks the heart and central nervous system before demolishing the kidneys. A slow, unpleasant death.
Homicide tips are just what weโre all looking for in our comic comments!
Shelly’s is a rare water-cooled Beetle, it seems.
Given the fact that I had to dirty my EYES with CAR FACTS to see whether Beetles were water cooled or not when writing this strip, it is definitely not.
Was there a typo in the strip that has been corrected? The only antifreeze (leading to water-cooled) references I see are in the commentary and comments. I feel like I missed something by showing up two and a half years late!
As a Scot, I’d have asked him for water for my skooshers. It’s always fun observing the look of bewilderment on the face of an Englishperson when I say that. ๐
Skooshers! I gotta remember that! I bet English people aren’t the only English speakers bewildered by such a delightful term.
I’ll drink a toast to your skooshers, Mum! They sound delightfully hydraulic.
What I think is highly unrealistic in this setting that they can still hear one another talking after riding in a classic beetle for a while. I remember riding shotgun in my uncles bright orange beetle when I was a kid and the engine was so shrill and whining, my ears would be ringing after getting out. Those were the days…
It seems that Peter not only has no furniture, but also no letter opener…
I drove a ’74 standard beetle from 1988 to 2003 and liked it quite a bit. Adjusted me own valves, replaced the master brake cylinder and slaves, and was quite happy operating a vehicle whose workings I could comprehend (I still have three copies of the Idiot Book. You never know.)
There is absolutely a charm to driving a car where you can pop the hood and actually identify (and touch, if needed!) every piece of machinery under there. When I pop the hood on any recent car, I am greeted with a sight identical to the side of a Borg cube — just wall-to-wall electronics and fiddly bits everywhere
What a great mid-century-mod structure in panel #1!
I’d like to live in a house like that, tho I might indulge in a stick or two of furniture..
This MUST be a time period before Tibbins. Else she lost the Maser GT in a rigged chamin-de-fer game.
This is LONG before Tibbins.
“She means washer fluid.”
Yes, but Shelley didn’t say “antifreeze.” You did. ๐
Frank:
I said “We United Statesians”. *WE*. I too am one such. A British correspondent/colleague once used that phrase and I’ve somehow never forgotten it. ๐