: I came by this tip a few years ago by hearing the sad tale of a (male)
: friend who drove his car into the garage with his $2000 bike on the roof
: rack. oops.

: A few months ago, a colleague had told me the sad tale of having crunched a
: garage door by trying to back her car out of the garage without having
: opened the garage door first....to which my first thought is, "why
: would you even start the car before you opened the door?" Open door,
: then start car.

: In a perfect world, I'd live in a place where the garage door was tall enough
: to provide clearance for boats on top of my pickup.... but in the
: meanwhile, I'm happy to live in a place where the garage is large enough
: to store all the boats I could possibly build, and more.

: Julie Kanarr

My next door neighbor is a tree surgeon. He bought a brand new expensive bucket truck like is used by the electric utilities, forgot to put the bucket all the way down before traviling on the road and tried to go under a viaduct a mile from where we live. The truck crumpled and buckled in the middle. A total loss.

John