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Show I AWFUL THRILLS j OFflRST RIDE Owner of New Car Quickly Discovers Dis-covers He Cannot Shift Gears Like Demonstrator. TRAFFIC TANGLES PUZZLING Rules of the Road, Especially Getting by Policeman at Crossing, 'Often Get Driver's Goat Many Things Forgotten. When you go out with the demonstrator demon-strator in the new car you have bought, running it looks just as easy as giving candy to a child, but when you start out by yourself that's different. dif-ferent. About the first trouble you have is with your gears, and while you are certain that you can shift them as well as the demonstrator did, you discover dis-cover that you can't, and in all probability prob-ability you blame it on the car. Road Rules Bother. Then there's the rules of the road, and especially getting by the traffic policeman. If you ever noticed it, when the officer holds up his hand you stop and kill your engine and bump hack and forth when you go to start, and tie up other cars, and finally two or three cars pass you and you can see black looks and hear a voice calling, call-ing, out something that you know Isn't complimentary. When you try to hack up you are likely to back into another car, or over a curb, or into a telephone pole, and when you're out for the first time you usually want the entire street clear when you go to pass another machine, and you feel like you'd rather rath-er stop than try to pass a street car. Then, again, you've wondered what was the matter with your new car because it wouldn't go right and bumped along and the engine heated like a furnace and you couldn't get your machine out of a slow walk. Possibly you have stopped and telephoned tele-phoned the service man to come and see what was the matter. He' came, released your brake and you were all right. Battery Exhausted. Then, perhaps, you allowed your lights to burn all night in the garage, or maybe you left on your ignition and exhausted your battery. Also, perhaps, per-haps, you forgot all about your lights until a policeman warned you. The new driver usually kills his engine en-gine on the track when lie passes in front of a street car. Again, did you ever step on the accelerator instead of the brake nnd run over the curb? In the winter, did you let your radiator freeze? |