RW> C4 attached to a cell phone should do it. :o)
 
Yes, it would, but then there'd be no more Roy or the back end of the
18-wheeler and the collateral damage would depend on the amount of nearby
traffic.
 
RW> That's too bad. He would probably have wanted you to be there.
 
I think he's still upset I couldn't fly there for his graduation.  His
mother couldn't go, either, but sons are more likely to be upset with their
fathers than mothers.  After all that kid has been through in Grenada and
Beirut and Israel and then rotating back to the states, you'd think he'd be
over it. Funny how he doesn't stop to realize how I must have felt.
 
RW> When SD was just a small Navy town, it was a great place to live. I loved
RW> every minute of it. Then big industry came to town and it grew bigger.
 
Aside from the Navy, I would have thought the biggest industries there were
the Padres and Chargers.  Not having been there, that's the mental image I
had of SD.
 
RW> Most of that industry left and the Medical Field moved in and that's when
RW> it got to be very crowded. I used to live in Clairemont and drove to work
RW> at Solar on the bay front using old highway 101 (about 15 miles). It was
RW> a busy drive, but not as busy as it was after they built I-5, a 4 lane,
RW> each way, freeway.
 
When I lived in Metairie (Jefferson Parish), it was a 14 mile drive into
N.O. to my job.  Easy going in the morning, but hectic after work because
of the bottleneck at I-610 where 4 lanes coming off the expressway from
N.O. became 2 lanes with merging traffic to our right from the east!  I'm
sure I wasn't alone while sitting at a dead stop to dead-slow-ahead in my
car wishing I could get my hands on the people who designed that particular
section of roadway, which turned into I-10 west.  It was a nightmare after
17:00 hours. And to top that off, the first black mayor of the city
proposed an extra tax on people who worked in N.O., but lived out of town. 
It failed.
 
RW> Six months from now should cover that.
 
It should.  Also, I should have known SOMETHING was different Monday
morning when I had a problem getting out of bed because the lumbar area of
my back really hurt and my knees were killing me.  Those three areas are
better weather forecasters than any meteorologist.
 
RW> Actually, it's been brewing for decades. If GM brought it upon
RW> themselves, they only had to get rid of the unions to get out of it
RW> before this.
 
That's one of the reasons I would not work in a dealership with their car
lines ever again.  As early as 1980, I told management at the Chevy
dealership I worked in Houma that they (GM) were pricing themselves out of
business.  The guys at the top there didn't seem to care.  They may be
caring right about now, but I think what will happen is that they'll drop
the American car line and go with a Japanese or other car product.
 
RW>RN> You'll have to get in line, podnuh.  (-:[
 
RW> I hate bloody seconds. :o)
 
Who does?  Wait!  Don't answer that!  (-:
 
RW> I recall a Texas Ranger shaking his fist at me, from across the freeway
RW> with no access for miles from his side to mine. :o)
 
I didn't think the Rangers bothered with traffic, but a cop is a cop, I suppose.
 
RW> I guess he never heard of Motorola.
 
The ones here did.  They used their Motorolas to setup a roadblock for me
and got me near where Jayne Mansfield was killed.  That's when had I souped
up my '57 Bel Air.  Funny I can't remember what the fine was or if there
was one.  I think we got out of it somehow.  Maybe it was the disbelief on
the trooper's face when I told him we were going about 137MPH (clocked). 
With drum brakes of the time, would you hazard a guess how far I went
before coming to a stop?  Keep in mind I wasn't naive enough to stand on
the brake pedal, but pumped it.
 
RW> You're not supposed to drink salt water. :o)
 
Yeah, I know, the plankton will kill you -- not the saline content.  I
wanted to bring a sample of it home to show my friends and coworkers that
the Gulf Stream was a different color than the Atlantic Ocean.
 
RW> Funny you should mention P.I. and Florida in one sentence. I just
RW> finished reading 'The Complete Idiot's Guide to Private Investigating'
RW> by Steven K. Brown, who's firm is based in Orlando, I think.
 
Never heard of him, but I have cultivated an intense dislike for Florida
ever since I've had to drive through it.  If not for the fact that my
sister lives there, I'd avoid it like the plague.  All attempts to get her
to move back to Louisiana have failed.  She likes it there.  She's been
living there for about 50 years (a rough estimate) and is now 80 years old,
so the only place she will be moving to is her final resting place.
 
RW> This was one of several downtown street cops. At the time, we had two one
RW> way streets of about 8 blocks linked by two one way, one block streets at
RW> each end. If you made the sequenced traffic lights on green, you could
RW> drive non-stop around that loop (and that was the cruiser hangout for
RW> licensed driver-kids in the day). The rest of the city was patroled by
RW> squad cars.
 
Many of the traffic lights in Houma are that way, but lately they are setup
to stop you at every one in the sure and certain hope that you'll have to
stop more frequently for gas.
 
RW> Ever been pulled over because the cop wanted to admire your new car?
 
Just that one time by smokie radio because they couldn't catch me.  (-:
 
RW> April, 1965, I only had this car two days, a 1965 Malibu SS, 350hp, 327
RW> w/4spd in Glacier Gray (almost a grayish/blue)...Had he waited two more
RW> blocks, he could have inspected it in front of the bank, across from the
RW> cruise spot at the court house. :o)
 
Yeah, IF he knew you were going to end up there.  I've given up waiting for
the Nova SS to have an engine put in it and the interior work done.  I'm
now faced with two choices:
 
1. pay about $1 large to replace the suspension parts on my Mark VIII (I
should tell you what the local Lincoln dealer's estimate was) and
 
2. buy my ex sil's 2000 Merc Grand Marquis.  The two ex-Lincoln mechanics I
met earlier in the week told me I'd be better off with the Merc.  Ask your
friend what he thinks, if you don't mind.
 
 
Regards,
 
Roger

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