20 May 09 10:24, Roger Nelson wrote to Roy Witt:

 RW>> True, but then I'd have to wait for the semi to stop long enough to
 RW>> unhook...

 RN> Get one with a quick disconnect you can activate from the car.  (-:

C4 attached to a cell phone should do it. :o)

 RW>> Boot camp in SD? There is a place called MCRD, Marine Corp Recruit
 RW>> Depot, but boot camp is at Pendleton, just north of Oceanside.

 RN> Sorry, I meant Camp Pendleton, of course.  But it wouldn't be too far
 RN> from SD.  I was supposed to go there for his graduation, but my job
 RN> at the time wouldn't permit the away time.

That's too bad. He would probably have wanted you to be there.

 RW>> Yeah, but that gets boring after a while. You need a variety of
 RW>> weather to make your day interesting. 360 days/yr of no humidity and
 RW>> pure sunshine can't get any more boring. :o)

 RN> Zero humidity would be a wonderful change of pace for a visitor, but
 RN> I wouldn't want to live there.

When SD was just a small Navy town, it was a great place to live. I loved
every minute of it. Then big industry came to town and it grew bigger.
Most of that industry left and the Medical Field moved in and that's when
it got to be very crowded. I used to live in Clairemont and drove to work
at Solar on the bay front using old highway 101 (about 15 miles). It was a
busy drive, but not as busy as it was after they built I-5, a 4 lane, each
way, freeway.

 RW>> Exactly...we did the same here. As I stepped out the door yesterday
 RW>> morning, I thought to myself, "God, if we could only have days like
 RW>> this for the next 180 days, that'd be great."

 RN> I wished for them to be all year long.  That would mean no more
 RN> hurricanes or tropical storms, which in turn means more pleasant
 RN> weather and rainfall one can put up with.

Six months from now should cover that.

 RW>> Nice guys like that are hard to find these days.

 RN> I think there are one or two more.

 RW>> That's because you're thinking of Corvairs and I'm talking about the
 RW>> europeon styled Monza that used to be a Vega. Buick, Olds and
 RW>> Pontiac also shared that body, but only Chevrolet put a V8 in them.

 RN> I passed a sign this morning at a dealership that read Buick,
 RN> Pontiac, GMC. Guess that will change soon.  It's almost like GM is
 RN> playing 10 Little Indians with their car lines, but they brought this
 RN> on themselves.  I forgot about the European-style Monza.

Actually, it's been brewing for decades. If GM brought it upon themselves,
they only had to get rid of the unions to get out of it before this.

 RW>> I'd like to thank him with a 2x4 along side his frontal lobe and a
 RW>> boot where the sun doesn't shine.

 RN> You'll have to get in line, podnuh.  (-:[

I hate bloody seconds. :o)

 RW>> RN> That thing ran like a Cheetah!

 RW>> I'm sure it did...

 RN> Only twice as fast.

 RW>> I drove the 2400 miles to Madison, WS in less than 36hrs back in 92,
 RW>> when my dad was in the intensive care there.

 RN> That would have made a difference to me, too, I think.

I recall a Texas Ranger shaking his fist at me, from across the freeway
with no access for miles from his side to mine. :o)

I guess he never heard of Motorola.

 RW>> That's what my daughter tells me. She's a scuba diver when she's not
 RW>> working. She and her hubby have a nice boat and take the kids with
 RW>> them.

 RN> If I had an empty jar I would have brought back a sample of it, but
 RN> pictures are sometimes as good when no other recourse is available.
 RN> The sample would be gone anyway.

You're not supposed to drink salt water. :o)

 RW>> The humidity?

 RN> I can't say.  It was mid-June or July and we were there for a week.
 RN> There was always a breeze coming from somewhere.  My bil (now
 RN> deceased) was a P.I. and took me on a case with him to Orlando.  Paid
 RN> me for my time, too. I had just missed the Jacques Mossler murder
 RN> trial in Miami that he worked on for the defense and the defendants
 RN> were his widow and her nephew.  They were defended by Percy Foreman,
 RN> whom my bil told me had a "booming voice." I'd like to have been in
 RN> on that.

Funny you should mention P.I. and Florida in one sentence. I just finished
reading 'The Complete Idiot's Guide to Private Investigating' by Steven K.
Brown, who's firm is based in Orlando, I think.

 RW>> When I had just turned 18, I was drag-racing another car on a
 RW>> one-way street and a foot cop jumped out in front of me. He opened
 RW>> my passenger door, hopped in and instructed me to drive to the
 RW>> station. On the way I told him that he was lucky I had good brakes
 RW>> or he'd be my new hood ornament. He wasn't very happy about that,
 RW>> but years later he remembered what I had said and instead of giving
 RW>> me a ticket for speeding with the 65 Malibu SS, told me to slow down
 RW>> and take it easy.

 RN> Foot cops.  We didn't have them in New Orleans.  The city takes up
 RN> the whole parish and I don't think any thought was given to beat cops
 RN> when they could get to a destination rather fast and they would be in
 RN> pairs.

This was one of several downtown street cops. At the time, we had two one
way streets of about 8 blocks linked by two one way, one block streets at
each end. If you made the sequenced traffic lights on green, you could
drive non-stop around that loop (and that was the cruiser hangout for
licensed driver-kids in the day). The rest of the city was patroled by
squad cars.

 RN> Also, times were different back then.  People acted more
 RN> responsibIy.  I remember a lecture a motorcycle cop gave me after
 RN> writing me a ticket for speeding. Had I gone to court, that offense
 RN> would have been thrown out, but I decided to pay the fine because the
 RN> lecture taught me something.

Ever been pulled over because the cop wanted to admire your new car?
April, 1965, I only had this car two days, a 1965 Malibu SS, 350hp, 327
w/4spd in Glacier Gray (almost a grayish/blue)...Had he waited two more
blocks, he could have inspected it in front of the bank, across from the
cruise spot at the court house. :o)

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