Under 1? My brother had a VW where you had to push the stick in and go under 1. Recently I spent 10 minutes trying to help a lady with her new car where you had to pull the bottom of the stick up and go under 1st. Now I'm hunting for new "hidden Reverse" techniques.
Those wacky Europeans and their R123456. I have 123456R, like American Jesus intended. Every time I shift into R, I hear eagles screeching about freedom. Every time I shift my wife's R123456 into R, I hear Lenin droning on about the proletariat.
Several years ago, I bought a Nissan Leaf electric car. The "PRNDL" is this knob on the console between the seats. Push it up to Reverse. Push it down once for Drive. Push it down twice for "B" - I've owned the car for nearly 5 years and have no idea what "B" is. First time I went to a car wash, I had to put the car in Neutral. I actually had to Google how to do that because it was not at all obvious - push knob to the left and hold it for 2-3 seconds. Just give me a fucking "PRNDL" or "PRNDB?" or at least print it on the knob. Oh, and Park is a separate switch.
It's a reference to a show called The Suite Life of Zack and Cody. It was a show about twins living in a hotel. One of the characters is an air-headed rich girl and the hotel manager teaches her how to drive. PRNDL is what she calls the gear shift and the manager has a light crash out over it.
I clearly remember a segment of Green Acres where Lisa (Eva Gabor) asks Oliver (Eddie Albert) during a driving lesson or something, about the PER-nan-dl. She had an accent and was a dim wit on the show, but it really (obviously) left an impression on me lol.
It’s a word made up in the 80s on a show called Not Necessarily the News, they had a whole segment about “Sniglets”, words that should be in the dictionary, but aren’t.
It was probably just passed down to her from someone who used to watch that show.
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u/dumptruckulent 14h ago
Ok I’m calling it a PRNDL from now on