I went to a meeting with my art director and the deputy in the 90s, I don't remember why, probably to meet an author somewhere. He drove a Honda, I forget the model too, I seem to remember it being known as the poor man's Lexus LS. But it was an automatic and it was always, always left in third despite it having a fourth speed. After a few minutes of listening to an engine at high revs, the deputy said, ffs just put it in fourth and leave it there, and the deputy actually shifted it himself. The director said something like, oh, is that what you're supposed to do?
So for about a minute, everything was fine until the director discreetly shifted it back into third and the stressed engine screaming returned. Can you imagine buying a car from a guy that did that for probably three years?
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