Is Your Blinker Still On? And Can it Do This?

          Yes, we’ve all thought about our car’s blinkers. Some of us have not used them lately (thank you, not), but most of us are pretty good at indicating we are planning to turn.

          However, St. Bob and I just bought a new car and I have discovered an unmentioned fabulous feature: Blinkers that sound like the coconuts in Monty Python’s Quest for the Holy Grail.

          Yes, every time I turn my blinkers on, I picture Arthur “galloping” up to the castle with his trusty servant, Patsy. He wants to ask the master of the castle if he’d like to join his court at Camelot.

Alas, having no horses, Arthur’s got Patsy banging two empty coconut halves together as they run along, trying to simulate the sound of galloping. Hilarious.

The guard at the top of the castle questions him about where he got the coconuts, England being a temperate climate and coconuts being tropical. Another guard joins the discussion, as they argue about birds that could migrate carrying heavy coconuts, and Arthur finally gives up, “galloping” away.

It's usually just in time for me to make my turn.

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