Sam Plusnet wrote:

> On 25/06/2023 14:18, Peter wrote:
>
>> Aircon takes quite a lot out of the battery. I had to sit outside a
>> hospital for 40 minutes on Friday with the car in the sun, and lost about
>> 20 miles of charge without going anywhere (which left me with only 250
>> miles in the battery). But that's rather exceptional and a petrol car would
>> have been belching out fumes to keep its aircon going under simmilar
>> circumstances.
>>
>
> When in a similar situation (waiting for SWMBO at a hospital on a very
> hot day) my answer involved a tree rather than air conditioning.
> I sat under it.

I toured three and a half counties as a rep for some years, and knew every
spot you could conveniently park a car out of the sun - without which it
was like the metal torture box in "The Bridge on the River Kwai". Under the
motorway bridge near Tewksbury, only one street with big trees in
Cheltenham etc. etc. There weren't a dozen in the whole area. Boy, would I
have liked aircon - especially as it was the company's petrol. The three
piece suit didn't help either.

--
Bob
Tetbury, Gloucestershire, England

Middle names are so you know when you're in trouble!

In article <1x1mmnhdyw7jj.53ki8bodk9lk.dlg@40tude.net>, Bob Henson
<bob.henson@outlook.com> on Mon, 26 Jun 2023 at 08:52:58 awoke Nicholas
from his slumbers and wrote
>Sam Plusnet wrote:
>
>> On 25/06/2023 14:18, Peter wrote:
>>
>>> Aircon takes quite a lot out of the battery. I had to sit outside a
>>> hospital for 40 minutes on Friday with the car in the sun, and lost about
>>> 20 miles of charge without going anywhere (which left me with only 250
>>> miles in the battery). But that's rather exceptional and a petrol car would
>>> have been belching out fumes to keep its aircon going under simmilar
>>> circumstances.
>>>
>>
>> When in a similar situation (waiting for SWMBO at a hospital on a very
>> hot day) my answer involved a tree rather than air conditioning.
>> I sat under it.
>
>I toured three and a half counties as a rep for some years, and knew every
>spot you could conveniently park a car out of the sun - without which it
>was like the metal torture box in "The Bridge on the River Kwai". Under the
>motorway bridge near Tewksbury, only one street with big trees in
>Cheltenham etc. etc. There weren't a dozen in the whole area. Boy, would I
>have liked aircon - especially as it was the company's petrol. The three
>piece suit didn't help either.
>
Two armchairs and a settee? That 3 piece suite would really would flog
the battery.

<groan>
--
0sterc@tcher -

"Où sont les neiges d'antan?"

Nicholas D. Richards wrote:

> In article <1x1mmnhdyw7jj.53ki8bodk9lk.dlg@40tude.net>, Bob Henson
> <bob.henson@outlook.com> on Mon, 26 Jun 2023 at 08:52:58 awoke Nicholas
> from his slumbers and wrote
>>Sam Plusnet wrote:
>>
>>> On 25/06/2023 14:18, Peter wrote:
>>>
>>>> Aircon takes quite a lot out of the battery. I had to sit outside a
>>>> hospital for 40 minutes on Friday with the car in the sun, and lost about
>>>> 20 miles of charge without going anywhere (which left me with only 250
>>>> miles in the battery). But that's rather exceptional and a petrol car would
>>>> have been belching out fumes to keep its aircon going under simmilar
>>>> circumstances.
>>>>
>>>
>>> When in a similar situation (waiting for SWMBO at a hospital on a very
>>> hot day) my answer involved a tree rather than air conditioning.
>>> I sat under it.
>>
>>I toured three and a half counties as a rep for some years, and knew every
>>spot you could conveniently park a car out of the sun - without which it
>>was like the metal torture box in "The Bridge on the River Kwai". Under the
>>motorway bridge near Tewksbury, only one street with big trees in
>>Cheltenham etc. etc. There weren't a dozen in the whole area. Boy, would I
>>have liked aircon - especially as it was the company's petrol. The three
>>piece suit didn't help either.
>>
> Two armchairs and a settee? That 3 piece suite would really would flog
> the battery.
>
> <groan>

Very comfortable at lunch breaks though. :-)

--
Bob
Tetbury, Gloucestershire, England

Mistress - halfway between a Mister and a Mattress.