Yesterday my wife was off work so she took my car in for it’s NY safety inspection. When she was paying for the service, the guy asked the meaning of my license plate: WH1STLES . She told him about whistles, what they’re used for etc. He asked her if she had one, so she went out and got my in-car whistle (a battered Shaw D). The guy said that if she’d play him a tune he wouldn’t charge for the inspection, so she ripped off Langstrom’s Pony for him. No charge for the inspection, and maybe she indoctrinated a new member of the sect… 
Love it!!!
KAC
Good one!
That’s awesome. I’ll have to remember to put a whistle in my glove box.
Most excellent use of talent! 
Gosh, a 4-parter like Langstrom’s Pony is a pretty ambitious offering! I hope the guy appreciated the extra effort. Or maybe your wife was just trying his patience: “All right already! Stop, enough! Here’s your certificate!” 
I was wondering the same (and did she play it twice?) but then it occured to me, how many husbands send their wives to have anything done on the car? Maybe the Mrs is a real honey. Chick-a-wah-wah.
<sorry for stereotyping, couldn’t resist>
Excellent!
brewerpaul,
I’m with Guinness on this …taking the car in for the inspection and being able to pick up whistle and play it on the spot (…and actually doing it). Sounds like a real keeper 
Fred
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You’d better believe she is
Wanna know HOW good she is? She bought me the lathe I make whistles on for my 50th birthday!
WHAT? What did you say? “Remember to put one in?” That would imply that you don’t have any in the car already.
Baliff!
Alas, I have to admit that I don’t store one in my car. It gets really hot here in Tucson, easily 110 degrees in the summer, and I worry about ruining one.
That’s what the cooler’s for. Sheesh!
KAC
I keep a cheap one in my car. It is black so I can play it going down the road and no one will know what I am doing.
Anyne know where the whistle goes when playing in the car, and the air bag goes off?
Any experts here on laryngotracheal anatomy? 
Where? Same place the coffee, pipe, glasses, cell phone, etc would go. Why would a whistle be more hazardous? Its not like the whistle is aimed at the air bag.
This picture represents poor “driving while whistling” technique.
Right. It’s aimed at your uvula. 
LOL … The poor fellow looks very carsick, in a Celtic sort of way. Yet another hazard!
Goodness me MT, such language, and in front of the children!
That’s uvula, Aanvil. Whatever sort of strange whistling technique were you thinking of?