AutoX Grid Routine

DatsunBucky · Post by **DatsunBucky** » Thu Nov 06, 2003 11:04 am

I found this on the Solo2.com message board and thought it was funny. It was posted there by John Coffey who apparently has a 240Z.

Here's my routine when getting into the car on grid at an autocross:
1. Get in the car.
2. Strap myself in (5 point harness).
3. Realize the keys to the car are in my front pocket.
4. Unstrap.
5. Get out of the car and get the keys out of my pocket.
6. Get in the car.
7. Strap myself in.
8. Put the keys in the ignition.
9. Notice my helmet sitting on the passenger floor.
10. Unstrap.
11. Put the helmet on the passenger seat.
12. Strap myself in.
13. Notice the driver's door is still open.
14. Wonder why the guy next to me on grid thinks this is so funny.
15. Unstrap.
16. Close the driver's door on the lap belt.
17. Try to strap back in.
18. Open the door to free up the lap belt.
19. Strap myself in.
20. Notice the driver's door is still open.
21. Start getting irritated at guy next to me on grid who is cackling like a chicken.
22. Put helmet on head, scraping sunglasses down nose and onto the floor.
23. Take helmet off.
24. Unstrap.
25. Pickup glasses.
26. Strap myself in.
27. Notice my helmet sitting on the passenger floor.
28. Decide the guy next to me on grid is having a coronary by the way he's twitching and jerking.
29. Unstrap.
30. Put the helmet on my head.
31. Try to strap myself in but I can't see the latch because of the helmet.
32. Take helmet off, carefully putting it on the passenger seat.
33. Strap myself in.
34. Starting to hope the coronary the guy is going through finishes soon.
35. Put helmet on.
36. Notice sunglasses on passenger side of dash.
37. Unstrap.
38. Put sunglasses on.
39. Strap myself in.
40. The guy next to me must be dead 'cuz I can't see him sitting up in the car anymore.

If this hits a little too close to home, sorry 'bout that. But I thought it was funny enough to share with y'all.

Ponder · Post by **Ponder** » Fri Nov 07, 2003 11:08 am

That was great!!!! Alright if I pass that along to my region's e-mail list?

I know it reminds of something I'm continually doing on the grid. I'll let you know when I remember it.

oilleak · Post by **oilleak** » Fri Nov 07, 2003 3:02 pm

#3
Yup!

DatsunBucky · Post by **DatsunBucky** » Fri Nov 07, 2003 4:44 pm

I would say it's OK to pass along as long as you give credit to the guy whom I got it from.

Russell Roach · Post by **Russell Roach** » Fri Nov 07, 2003 8:17 pm

Good Lord I thought I would bust a gut laughing!

Mine is strapped in forgot to turn the master switch located on the hood!

Russell

Ponder · Post by **Ponder** » Mon Nov 10, 2003 9:38 am

Thanks again Bucky. I passed that along this morning to our list. I'm sure they're going to enjoy it a lot. Our club is generally a bunch of self-depracating cut ups. This routine will hit home with a lot of them.

An example of our club's sense of humor: Our August meeting is ALWAYS at the Log Inn instead of the usual place because Scorpios closes in August so the owner can take a vacation with his family. This is the announcement that is made at the solos in July and at the July meeting and in the Newsletter. On the surfce it all makes sense until you realize that the regular meeting place is NOT Scorpios and that Scorpios actually closed down sometime in the late 1980's. Nevertheless, the club has kept with the tradition of moving the August meeting to an alternate location just out of its own stubborn weirdness.