The Violation Game: Too Much TV

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[Falcon67]

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>This week's Violation Game is based on a very simple rule: Unless your ride is a limo, a motorhome, or a Panasonic
>delivery truck, there should not be any televisions on board.

You apparently don't have children or grandchildren and/or don't plane to travel any distance with them. In those cases, on board DVD is required IMHO. ;D

[Leon]

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How about a tv mounted behind the wheel so you can fake some smoke from the tires? that would go great with the fake motor noises that were featured last week! ;D

[Freiburger]

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You apparently don't have children or grandchildren and/or don't plane to travel any distance with them. In those cases, on board DVD is required IMHO. ;D

How did we possibly survive so many generations without it?

[BangShift McT]

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EXACTLY! Sit, enjoy the music, and keep to your side of the Cavalier...well, that's how I remember it.

[Leon]

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You apparently don't have children or grandchildren and/or don't plane to travel any distance with them. In those cases, on board DVD is required IMHO. ;D

I must have missed something as a kid..... We were lucky when we got a TV in the House!

Anyone remember the The License Plate Game?

[STINEY]

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You apparently don't have children or grandchildren and/or don't plane to travel any distance with them. In those cases, on board DVD is required IMHO.

That's exactly how my mother-in-law feels too. And she keeps buying more of the travel models because we don't have any.

(Little does she realize that now all my friends & coworkers now own said gizmos. She'd hemorage if she realized how much she has supported my "little car habit"...hehehe....)

Supposedly Santa is bringing a Wii this year, he was informed in no uncertain terms last year that was unacceptable. Anyone need a Wii?

My buddy & I volunteeer to take our kids with us on extended 3-8 hour parts chasing trips, giving our wives a break. (Happy wives make happy husbands!)

Kids are 5, 5, & 3, and are quite a hoot on a long trip. Its all in the approach, helps to be a kid yourself I suppose....

;)

[outlaw57]

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I have screens for the kiddos, but thats it. and they save big headaches!

[Gerrit]

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As a child the windscreen was my TV. And everything I saw was live.
Why must everything be fake nowadays.
They play football on the Wii and have to watch TV when you're cruizing.

Gerrit

[squirrel]

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When we traveled, I'd look at the old abandoned cars on the side of the road....but they dont' have those anymore.

Used to be really interesting to drive around in Mexico, cars laying everywhere in various states of salvage.

[nesabo]

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I would not have a video screen built into my car, aftermarket or from the factory. I did buy my oldest a portable dvd player though. I do not have to worry about it ruining the look of any of the vehicles I own, plus I bought it for < $80, compared the hundreds of the factory or aftermarket ones.

[Weldangrind]

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We bought a small portable DVD a few years ago as well. We take one or two twelve hour trips to visit my parents each year, and that's a long time to expect a kid to play the license plate game or count telephone poles. I don't really have a basis of comparison, because we simply never traveled that far when I was a kid.

We have rules about movies in the car; the kids may watch a movie, but then they're required to take a break and play cards, sing songs, sleep, whatever. We usually stop after that, let the kids burn off some energy, and then we might allow another movie. The DVD player (or MP3 player for that matter) is simply not allowed on short trips (< 3 hours).

If we ever went on a road trip when I was a kid, we were encouraged to be quiet and were not allowed to roll the windows down. We might let some of that precious cigarette smoke out. ;D

[HillbillySailor]

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EXACTLY! Sit, enjoy the music, and keep to your side of the Cavalier...well, that's how I remember it.

Very similar for me, except it was the back of a Malibu wagon.

[Scott Liggett]

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Hey!! Those factory DVD players in our SUV's keep us limo drivers entertained while sitting outside movie premieres we go to, but aren't invited to go into. Last night was "Seven Pounds" and tomorrow night is "Valkyrie".

[Brian Lohnes]

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Hey!! Those factory DVD players in our SUV's keep us limo drivers entertained while sitting outside movie premieres we go to, but aren't invited to go into. Last night was "Seven Pounds" and tomorrow night is "Valkyrie".

Do you have to pick up Tom Cruise and set him on the ground? Seems like a long way down out of the back of a Suburban for a "little fellah"

Brian