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bluthree · 02-03-2009, 09:20 AM

Hey I was watching Lucy Learns To Drive this mourning and this is another episode where Ricky is stuppid. Buys a car then leaves it parked out on the street outside the apratment building. Now come on Ricky this is the 4th season you should of none that Lucy was going to pull something while you was off at the club? Also Ricky leaves the keys inside his new car in New York city?!
Now I know this was the 50's and crime was not as bad as today. But I'm sure even in the 1950's you dont go and leave you're keys in you're car?
Yeah also Lucy wrecks the new car and Ricky tells Ethel and Fred everthing is ok because he got the car insured. Well how do you explain to the insurance company what happen? "My wife who dont have a license wanted to give are land lady a driving lesson and she ended up wrecking the car"
I think that would be hard to explain to you're insurance company? Of course this was the 1950's so maybe things was difrent back then? You did need a drivers licence in the 50's right? Yeah well this was before my time so what do I know?

Hughsgirl · 02-05-2009, 10:17 AM

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Originally Posted by bluthree

Hey I was watching Lucy Learns To Drive this mourning and this is another episode where Ricky is stuppid. Buys a car then leaves it parked out on the street outside the apratment building. Now come on Ricky this is the 4th season you should of none that Lucy was going to pull something while you was off at the club? Also Ricky leaves the keys inside his new car in New York city?!
Now I know this was the 50's and crime was not as bad as today. But I'm sure even in the 1950's you dont go and leave you're keys in you're car?
Yeah also Lucy wrecks the new car and Ricky tells Ethel and Fred everthing is ok because he got the car insured. Well how do you explain to the insurance company what happen? "My wife who dont have a license wanted to give are land lady a driving lesson and she ended up wrecking the car"
I think that would be hard to explain to you're insurance company? Of course this was the 1950's so maybe things was difrent back then? You did need a drivers licence in the 50's right? Yeah well this was before my time so what do I know?

Shame on you for saying Ricky is stupid! LOL! And you just took all the fun out of that episode by making sense out of it! LMAO!

tdr · 02-05-2009, 05:25 PM

Those are significant points you raise. My mother told me about her driving test to get her license in 1945 in our small town in Texas; considering that, how could it possibly be that one didn't need to get a license to drive in NY, the city? As for insurance, if you read novels-- for instance a Perry Mason novel-- from the 30's, and written by a lawyer, Erle Stanley Gardner, there are some driving incidents that indicate insurance was not essentially different from today, in terms of how 'fault' was determined, the skepticism of adjusters, et al. One difference would be that carrying liability insurance was not legally required, as it is in most states today, and the motives to commit fraud were surely more successful... such as, if you were uninsured and had wreck in which you knew you were at fault, you could apply for insurance right away-- just be sure no agent sees your damaged car-- and it would not have been nearly so easy to discover the angle as today, when nobody gets insurance approved without a check of traffic records. Obviously the webs of computer files make that scheme very unlikely today.. technology-- massive and quick information!

But lest we forget, on this topic and many more-- ILL was a comedy, and there is much that does not make logical sense.

02-03-2009, 09:20 AM	#1
bluthree Member Frequent Poster Join Date: Oct 23, 2007 Location: New London MO Posts: 362	Lucy Learns to Drive Hey I was watching Lucy Learns To Drive this mourning and this is another episode where Ricky is stuppid. Buys a car then leaves it parked out on the street outside the apratment building. Now come on Ricky this is the 4th season you should of none that Lucy was going to pull something while you was off at the club? Also Ricky leaves the keys inside his new car in New York city?! Now I know this was the 50's and crime was not as bad as today. But I'm sure even in the 1950's you dont go and leave you're keys in you're car? Yeah also Lucy wrecks the new car and Ricky tells Ethel and Fred everthing is ok because he got the car insured. Well how do you explain to the insurance company what happen? "My wife who dont have a license wanted to give are land lady a driving lesson and she ended up wrecking the car" I think that would be hard to explain to you're insurance company? Of course this was the 1950's so maybe things was difrent back then? You did need a drivers licence in the 50's right? Yeah well this was before my time so what do I know?

02-05-2009, 05:25 PM	#3
tdr Member Senior Member Join Date: Mar 23, 2001 Posts: 1,454	Those are significant points you raise. My mother told me about her driving test to get her license in 1945 in our small town in Texas; considering that, how could it possibly be that one didn't need to get a license to drive in NY, the city? As for insurance, if you read novels-- for instance a Perry Mason novel-- from the 30's, and written by a lawyer, Erle Stanley Gardner, there are some driving incidents that indicate insurance was not essentially different from today, in terms of how 'fault' was determined, the skepticism of adjusters, et al. One difference would be that carrying liability insurance was not legally required, as it is in most states today, and the motives to commit fraud were surely more successful... such as, if you were uninsured and had wreck in which you knew you were at fault, you could apply for insurance right away-- just be sure no agent sees your damaged car-- and it would not have been nearly so easy to discover the angle as today, when nobody gets insurance approved without a check of traffic records. Obviously the webs of computer files make that scheme very unlikely today.. technology-- massive and quick information! But lest we forget, on this topic and many more-- ILL was a comedy, and there is much that does not make logical sense.