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Funeral Procession Etiquette

Jan 22 2014

It’s not a hearse, it’s a “funeral coach.”

Read it online at Autonet.ca.

Favourite line:

Try this trick; imagine how the person in the casket would give anything to trade places with you, and be the one stuck in traffic.

Two favourites this week.

It’s in your best interest to give the procession a wide berth, because this is a line of distracted drivers.

Really though, be kind to a passing funeral.

I received a bunch of emails this week – when you honk and get angry at a procession, it can haunt someone for 20 years.

Thanks for taking the time Bruce, of Humphrey Funeral Home.

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The Attack

A flyer is posted, it says, “scan this QR code, and a really great thing will happen to you!”

The code is scanned > which tells your phone to open a browser > and go to a URL, Whatever.com > where there is a virus / malware / etc > ready to be installed onto your phone.

The Defence

In the settings of the scanning app, choose to allow / deny an action, before it executes.

In the above scenario, the URL might have looked off, and you decided not to click it, not to visit the webpage.

A Better Defence

Just don’t scan any, ever.

Stay sharp out there.

Y’all is Such a Friendly Word

Jan 16 2014

Like, doesn’t Florence, Ohio now seem like a neighbourly, welcoming place to get a piece of pie?

A Nice Thing Happened in Nashville

Jan 15 2014

I was in Nashville with Nissan a couple months ago. Mark Richardson and I were outside the city, testing the new Hybrid Pathfinder.

We passed these parade floats, and stopped to pose the car.

Two gentleman appeared, groundskeepers. Mark kept clicking, I went over to say hi.

He was so curious about Canada. What’s it like there? Then:

Him: Do you have black people there?
Me: Yup.
Him: Do you have gay people there?
Me: Yup. Some are black and gay. No one cares in Canada.

He said he didn’t understand gay people, it was confusing, why would they choose to do that?

I responded with my logic line, “being gay is tough, right? So, why would anyone choose a harder life?”

That started sinking in, and then Mark’s timing was perfect: he walked up at this exact moment, and said he was gay.

Our new friend’s eyes almost came out of his head. “But, you seem normal, we were just joking, but…..”. It was all over his face, trying to process this anomaly.

And then, THE moment.

Mark stuck out his hand, and slowly, our new friend reached out and shook it. Eyes still like saucers. I laughed and clapped and said do it again, and he did. The second time his face registered proudness. This was the first time he’d met a gay person, and had been brave enough to touch him. I’m literally smiling while typing this, it was special like that.

It was amazing to watch his mind rewire.

Then Mark snapped us to commemorate the moment.

We’d have liked a photo of him and Mark, but after those 2 handshakes, the guy was visibly overwhelmed, enough was enough.

Off we went grinning, one less homophobe, tada.

The Lincoln Motor Company’s Re-Invention

Jan 15 2014

Non-car nerds: Over the last year, Lincoln re-invented themselves, starting by reverting to its original 1922 name, The Lincoln Motor Company.

The cars got a fresh new design, look & feel. So did the website.

Les Clefs d’Or, the world’s premiere concierge service, was hired to re-train the entire sales staff, inside all the newly renovated dealerships. What I like best about this re-invention, is the air of class they’re pumping in.

This MKZ was their first “tada! This is the new us” car.