29 May 09 10:35, Roger Nelson wrote to Roy Witt:


 RW>> Mine had a stroke about a year ago. I saw him sucking on a cigarette
 RW>> as I passed him on the porch of the funeral home for the viewing of
 RW>> my mother last September. In passing I asked, 'are you still sucking
 RW>> on those things?' He replied to me; 'what's it to ya?' and I said,
 RW>> 'not much, but don't expect me to attend YOUR funeral.'

 RN> You say that now, but when he does pass, you might change your mind.

I've been known to be more stubborn than that...

 RW>> I would have quit then and called the state in on it. There has to
 RW>> be law against such practices.

 RN> I left a month later after I'd been lied to.  When I gave that
 RN> ignoramus my two week notice, he sent all of the other managers down
 RN> to my office one at a time to try to talk me out of leaving.  It was
 RN> an emotional time for me, but I couldm't ever again trust someone who
 RN> lies to my face.

It would have been more business-like for him to sever your relationship
on the spot. No hard feelings, just business.

 RW>> Seen the college games there on TV.

 RN> Tulane had a powerhouse when I became interested in football at the
 RN> age of 10.  My sister used to drag me to their practices and games.
 RN> Her birthday is today -- 80 and she's still sharp as a tack.

Nancy's aunt was like that, even at 96 she still played cards with the
'girls' once a week.

 RW>> Harry is in his mid-40s...

 RN> Then he now knows what it's all about.  (-:

I think he does.

 RW>> Better get it done soon, GM is being forced into chapter 11, if not
 RW>> this week, definately on Monday.

 RN> Interesting.  The work on the building is still going on as I type
 RN> this.

GM shares are down to $.75 today. A far cry from the $18/share they were
this time last year. If they go into Bankruptcy on Monday, stocks won't be
available until they emerge from it.

 RW>> Simple syrup is just sugar water. 1 part water to 1 part sugar can
 RW>> be used to make summer beverages, even iced tea, although that would
 RW>> be too sweet for me.

 RN> Back then, no one gave it a second thought.  It is definitely too
 RN> sweet for me now.

You don't have to make it...I've seen some Italian SW that is used to make
a drink in certain deli'...

 RW>> All of them are basically alike. GM, Ford and Dodge all have a
 RW>> bottle jack in the cab somewhere along with the jack handle. The
 RW>> access to the spare is through a special hole in the rear bumper (GM
 RW>> trucks require the igniton key to access), which has a tube used as
 RW>> a guide leading to the winch that lowers the spare. The lug wrench
 RW>> has a special cut-out in it so you can latch onto the cable and pull
 RW>> the spare out from under the vehicle. Once it's within reach, you
 RW>> can pull it out from under and stand it up next to the rear bumper,
 RW>> where you can access the do-dad that holds the wheel to the cable
 RW>> and detach it. If you're smart, you leave that end piece and cable
 RW>> laying within reach, so you can put it on the flat tire wheel and
 RW>> pull it back up with the winch. Even a petite woman can do it with a
 RW>> bit of effort.

 RN> I wonder how much extra that added to the cost of the truck?

Probably not much.

 RW>> Kinda tough to forget that you had a flat and changed it out
 RW>> yourself.
 RW>> :o)

 RN> But sometimes you get very busy and forget.  That comes with alarming
 RN> and increasing regularity the older you get.  (-:

I do that while working on more than one project at a time. It's really
more like I get distracted with something that I forgot to do the last
time I was in that place.

 RW>> He never let me try that more than once. I didn't get the can in the
 RW>> cooler and so he had to do it.

 RN> I'll bet once was enough, right?

My cousin was a couple of years ahead of me, so he was more teen developed
than I was. Even though I ended up more muscular than he did in the end. I
could probably have done it by the following year.

 RW>> I took my winter clothes to California when I moved there. They got
 RW>> tossed out as I moved from place to place, not thinking I'd ever
 RW>> need them again.

 RN> I need to do the same thing with some clothes I've outgrown.

I've still got a sweater that I wore in high school. It doesn't fit me
anymore, but someday I hope to get that skinny again.

 RW>> I saved one winter coat because I knew I'd be visiting Illinois
 RW>> again, most during the late fall and winter months. Eventually I
 RW>> gained enough weight that they no longer fit. Two trips ago I had to
 RW>> buy a winter jacket when I got there, as my CA jacket wasn't at all
 RW>> warm. This past winter, I bought a nice leather jacket at the
 RW>> Burlington Coat Factory in SA...nice and cozy here in Texas and will
 RW>> be useful if it's cold when I visit Illinois again in October.

 RN> When I lived in Mandeville, I went barefoot a lot.  Not a wise thing
 RN> to do when you're a tenderfoot, but I wanted to harden the soles of
 RN> my feet so I wouldn't feel those little stickers that seemed to grow
 RN> everywhere.  Lots of snakes over there, too, and one day when I was
 RN> cutting the grass in the culvert, I ran over a baby rattler.  I was
 RN> pushing the power mower at the time, but if I had been backing up and
 RN> pulling it along, the rattler would have gotten to me first.  Anyway,
 RN> the short of it is my feet grew another size.  I still can't believe
 RN> it.

One of my neighbor kids where I lived in Poway, CA - got bit by a baby
rattler while sitting on a curb near an empty field. He was hurtin' for a
long time. I've come close a few times, even stepping on one in the dark,
but never bitten.

 RW>> So the ship wasn't battle ready and was a sitting duck...

 RN> Even so, the enemy can "walk" those shells in on you
faster than the
 RN> ship can get underway.  The ship itself wasn't hit, but the ones
 RN> hitting close were the ones that cost life.  I think they thought
 RN> they were out of range, but I didn't ask, so I'm guessing again.

It looks like we may end up back there again...

 RW>> I've driven a Mazda with that feature. The gal who owned it didn't
 RW>> know it had that feature and it was never in OD, until I showed her
 RW>> the switch.

 RN> That's a heck of a place to put it on my car, though.

It should be part of the gear selection process, not a seperate switch.

GM overdrives still have 1, 2, 3 and OD. I select 3 when driving around
town and OD when on the freeway. If I select OD in town, it shifts into
4th gear and locks up soon after. It's annoying when your engine is
lugging at 45mph because it's in converter locked over drive.

 RW>> Which you can see it do by observing the tach. The Mazda was like
 RW>> that. I thought 3000 rpm at 65mph was a bit high. That's when I
 RW>> began to inquire about it.

 RN> That's what caught my notice when I saw the tach readout go from 1400
 RN> (I think) to 2500 at about 65MPH.

The engine noise attracted me to the tach...WTH is that all about?

 RW>> White gas. White gas is gasoline with no additives. Back in the 50s,
 RW>> they needed lead and other additives for higher compression
 RW>> automotive engines, but the additives weren't needed in outboard or
 RW>> lawn mower engines.

 RN> Thanks.  In that picture I sent you, which I couldn't do anything
 RN> with, I'm reasonably sure the guy on the right is Knot and the guy on
 RN> the left is Earl Karl.

I wouldn't have bothered to try...it's pretty much what it's going to be.

 RW>> I'll bet that hurt. Back in the 50s I used to race on the same track
 RW>> that later became known as the home track of Arnie 'The Farmer'
 RW>> Beswick, who drove Pontiacs and Pontiac powered funny cars into the
 RW>> 60s. That's also where I watched as 55 Chevys (I was only 15yo) with
 RW>> their new V8 would consistantly beat the Y-block V8 Fords and those
 RW>> lousy Mopar products of the time.

 RN> Killed him instantly.  I don't know of Beswick.  We tried mostly to
 RN> keep up with the local guys and our dragstrip outcomes.  One weekend,
 RN> a bunch of us went to Pensacola to race and those of us who ran won
 RN> every race they entered except for me.  Some guy in a Ford beat me in
 RN> the second run, otherwise I would have one a trophy.

Heh...I had a guy in a 58 Plymouth come to me and beg me to let him win,
he wanted a trophy real bad. I told him if he could beat me, he could have
the trophy and I wouldn't have to sand bag for him. I'd a thunk about it
harder if he wasn't running snow tires on the back. :o)

 RW>> A whole $2?!

 RN> We bet a quarter a game.  I won the first game and he wanted to
 RN> double up for the second game and I decided to make a counter offer.
 RN> I told him whoever lost the second game had to buy the soft drinks at
 RN> $1.50 each.  I lost that game and the next one.  He's a better bowler
 RN> than I am for many reasons, but just to make the sport even, I bowled
 RN> with a ball I seldom use.  I know that doesn't make sense to you, but
 RN> to him it was sort of a challenge.  (-:

No sense at all.

 RW>> A GPS has a plug that fits a cigarette lighter socket. If your boat
 RW>> is running, you GPS will work.

 RN> I don't know if Joe's boat has a lighter socket.  Mine did, but I
 RN> sold that boat in the mid-Eighties.

They're called 'utility' sockets today. :o)

 RW>> My mother balked at 'Levis', but I appealed to my dad and he told
 RW>> her it would be OK to buy two pair. Later, I had a paper route, so I
 RW>> could buy what I wanted. Then I got the job in the dairy and that
 RW>> helped a great deal. By the time I was 18, I had a job in a local
 RW>> clothing store with an account to buy on credit.

 RN> We wore blue jeans back then, but I don't know if they were Levi's.
 RN> Probably whatever Sears sold.  My mother worked there for 29 years
 RN> before retiring.

My cousin wore bibed coveralls to school. I didn't know him when he wore
those.

 RW>> In my mind. :o)

 RN> (-:

 RW>> That's what I was going to do.

 RN> Is it too late now?

 RW>> You'll get over it when you tool on down the road in that GM...

 RN> I hope the suspension parts needing replacing in the Mark VIII last
 RN> until the end of the year...

Bushings, balljoints or tie rods?

 RW>> I hate it when people do that.

 RN> It is insignificant to him, believe me.

 RW>> I've known people like that too. I usually don't ask them a second
 RW>> time.

 RN> I forget I know them even though I live in the same house with one.

LOL!

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