-=> Quoting Dale Shipp to Nancy Backus on 01-22-16  01:46 <=-
 -=> On 01-20-16  15:58,  Nancy Backus <=-
 -=> spoke to Ruth Haffly about Re: nearly 562 <=-
 
 NB>> It wasn't even that sweet... (G)  It still got used for a number of
 NB>> the long-distance trips, until it became too unreliable... that was the
 NB>> one, I think, whose manual transmission died enroute to MD, stranding
 NB>> me in Mansfield PA over the weekend... and it may also have been the
 NB>> one that sprung a gas leak enroute on another trip to MD, which needed
 NB>> to be fixed whilst there...  All told, it lasted about 8 years (driving

 DS> I hope you don't take those two experiences as an omen not to drive to
 DS> Maryland :-}}

Considering that that was two (and a half) cars ago...  ;)  It was
probably mostly coincidental that it was Maryland... I was going down to
help my sister for a week or so every other year, as she was having her
10 babies...  ;)  And have been on quite a few trips there since, with
both my Shadow, Richard's Volvo, and now my Volvo...  :)  I'll be
driving to MD again this year in April for the wedding of one of those
"babies"... :)

The grapefruit car was also the one that landed me on the divider on the
expressway here after an April Fool's storm, with a slushy far left
lane... also it's the one that lost a wheel on another expressway
here... it felt funny, so Richard pulled over, and the wheel just fell
off the axle when he went around to check... At least it didn't go
flying like some recent stories told here... ;)

ttyl      neb

... Don't use a big word where a diminutive one will suffice.

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