About 10 months ago, my friend Dave mentioned that the right tail light on my pickup truck was not lit, though the blinker worked. He mentioned the section in the California motor vehicle code that required its operation. He had been following me back to Stanford after we had dinner. Within a few days, I took apart my tail light enclosure in the Sears parking lot and found that there was only one bulb. Since the bulb worked for signaling, I jumped to the conclusion that the problem was due to the wiring system. A few weeks ago I mentioned the situation to my dad, and he said the bulb probably had two filaments. I bought a new bulb, and close examination proved him correct as usual. Finally, my tail light is working again.
Posted by seander at June 23, 2003 08:11 AM> About 10 months ago, mentioned that the right
> tail light on my pickup truck was not lit,
Actually, wasn't that almost exactly one year ago, rather than 10 months? I remember it because my life this year has been almost a complete reliving of my life the previous year.
Posted by: Dave at July 1, 2003 08:38 AMYes, it may have been more like 12 months.
Posted by: Sean at July 1, 2003 10:45 AMNow that I think about it, I believe we were returning from a dinner with Kinshuk and Parul, which would have been the last week of June.
Posted by: Dave at July 4, 2003 10:13 AM