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["Toni Hawryluk" <tonihawr AT msn.com>]

----- Original Message ----- From: Robert 
Walton<mailto:waltonrp AT bellsouth.net> My last stint on land brought home the 
reality of just how citified I have become. I took 2 gas cans for the 
bushwacker and chainsaw. One was full the other empty. Forgot to fill the 2 
gallon can when in town. Town is about 15 miles each way. When I needed gas 
and realized that I had to drive 30 miles round trip to buy 2 gallons of gas 
(burn 2 gallons in the truck to buy 2 gallons for the can), I wished I had 
some plastic tubing in my tool chest - to make a siphon hose. :>) Rob

Well, I did say hose/s didn't I ? Although
a second meatbasting kitchen-gadget would
have done the job. And neatly, too. Have you
seen the type that is a long clear cylinder of
plastic, pinched at the business end, with a
?rubber? bulb at the other end to provide the
vacuum ? Like a huge eye-drop dispenser ....
I think outboard engines for small boats have
a tool like that - and then there is the one
for testing radiator fluid ... etc.
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Gene huffed : <g>
> I drive an SUV not as a symbol of anything. 

Now, Gene, you *know* there's a *correct use* for
"stuff" and I wasn't addressing necessary/correct
usage.

What burns me is the 98 lb soccer mom who parks in 
the disabled spot with a huge new and still freshly 
washed SUV, brings out her infant, puts it into a fancy 
stroller, and then :

pushes the stroller twenty feet through the door
of - with a guy coming out holding the door for her -
the *fitness club*.  And I kid you not ... the club
is in a shopping mall with the supermarket next to it ....

Remember, I live *in town* now ...

> passengers sit higher than in a sedan, which makes it superior for viewing. 

Also for 'superior viewing for short *drivers* -
which is why I bought the ole beater 4x4.

> It is a comment on our culture that pickup trucks are symbols, I guess of 
> machismo. 

No guess - just check the three- and four-vehicle
garages across the nation. In cities. Where there
ain't no __it to haul ...

(snip) This large city is full of big 4WD pickups whose main duty is 
impressing the drivers. Big pickups, big SUVs and the Hummers have made 
parking a more exacting exercise in these days of expensive parking lots.

And the painters who put the lines so close 
together that only mini-compacts fit into them
*and* have space for vehicle doors to open ...
It was a good day for me when I finally admitted 
I needed a disabled tag so I *could* park where 
there was sufficient space for the door to swing 
wide open so I could climb in and out because
these ole knees don't bend/pivot the way they
used to. And then to have the spaces stolen by 
soccer moms "who are in a hurry, don't you know 
how valuable *their* time is ?" makes me steam ....