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Mail From: phredd1 (Phredd)


+++ Your school had a fireplace!?! Wow, did you have it good!
>
>
> I also had to bring my own log for the fireplace.
>
> rick-also...not 22
>
> In a message dated 10/27/03 1:14:23 PM Central Standard Time,
> (email redacted) writes:
> When I was a boy, I
> had to walk to school. In the snow. With no boots. Uphill
> both ways."
>
> Kent, er.... not 22
>

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Mail From: kcmurphy72 (KC Murphy)

> Allowance!!! Why we had to go to work every morning at 8:00 AM,
> a half hour before we went to bed, work in the mill 36 hours a
> day, week in and week out, and when we got home, our dad would
> kill us and dance about on our graves shouting hallelujah. You
> tell people this nowadays, and they don't believe you!
> Bob.

If only we had some yorkshire men to tell us how it really was... :-)

Murph

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Mail From: scarlettmx5 (Scarlett MX5)

Our neighborhood rugrats like to put ramps in the street, too. And they
like to ride their bikes through my flowerbed (little do they know it is not
dirt they're playing in, but compost). Even after I put up a little metal
fence. Last week, I installed a hedge of small plants. That have thorns.
Heh heh heh....

Denise & Scarlett (now with new shocks and front sway bar!)
Marysville, WA


>
>OK...enough of the old guy "get the hell off my lawn" speech...I'm too
>young to be doing this...
>
>Bryan

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Mail From: Larry (Larry Alster)

In my case the guy that was giving me a hard time tried to justify his
position by quoting the store of the kid that had been killed nearby by a
hit and run driver.

Yes the driver was at fault for doing a hit and run. But guess what. The
kid, about 5, was driving a Big Wheel Trike through a subdivision that had a
busy through street in it. Where was the kid you ask?? On the sidewalk???
NOOOO He was driving the thing down the street like he was a car. A first
time occurrence??? NOOOO, neighbors say he did it all the time. Who's
really at fault here?? The driver or the parents.

I was disappointed that the parents were never charged with child
endangerment. You should have seen them on the local news night after night
carrying on about the bad driver, the speeding in their neighborhood etc
etc. I guess the best defense was a good offense, kept them out of jail.

Larry

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Bryan Wyatt" <(email redacted)>
To: "Tom Blough" <(email redacted)>; "Michael Powers"
<(email redacted)>; <(email redacted)>; "Miata mailing list"
<(email redacted)>
Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 11:22 AM
Subject: RE: [Miata] The psychology of the little yellow sports car


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> I could share a couple stories about how many sideways glances I get when
I walk into a bank, store, etc. but I think you'd get bored (I'm a 22 year
old black male, in case anyone wants to know). Point is, taking so much of
people's backhanded predjudices does make one rather bitter. From time to
time, you might lash out like John.
>
> Doesn't make either side right. Just sucks that people can be so
illogical sometimes.
>
> Bryan
> -The Last Bastion of Unadulterated Male Bachelorhood in Northern Kentucky
>
> Tom Blough <(email redacted)> wrote:
> Is there some genetic changes that occur when you have kids that all the
> sudden make you think you are better than everyone else? Why should John
> have to "dial it back a
> little" even though he is well within his rights to drive the speed limit?
>
> So, the Miata is just a cheap entry level sports car. An yet driving one
is
> a "sport"? Ever stop to think that parents who can't control their
children
> make poor ambassadors as well? John's point was the street is not a
> playground. If you are unable to control your children, we'll do our best
> to do your job for you, but the safest course of action is NOT to let them
> play in the street.
>
> Too bad procreation is not licensed.
>
>
> Tom Blough &
> "Molly" Red '99 LP
> Avon, CT
>
> "Driver does not carry cash - He's married"
> FYI, Racecar spelled backwards is racecaR
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Powers [mailto:(email redacted)]
> Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 10:49 AM
> To: (email redacted); Miata mailing list
> Subject: Re: [Miata] The psychology of the little yellow sports car
>
>
>
> John,
>
> LOL!! That's a funny comment. You are Da Man! I think if somebody said
> that to me, having some "kids" myself, I would probably knock some teeth
out
> right there and take the jail time, because jail time aint so bad compared
> to the satisfaction it would bring. You make a poor ambassador for our
> sport when you say things like that. "Cool sportscar" - ? Last I looked it
> was just a Miata, a cheap entry level sports car and not worth threatening
> the lives of our children.
>
> Let's summarize this thread so far... Small sports car... Bright colors...
> Sporty driving... Loud exhausts... Threats to keep the kids safe as long
as
> they stay out of the street.... Complaints from neighbors... Complaints
from
> traffic officers...
>
> It's clear, everybody else is completely nuts and you guys are just OK.
> Getting the attention you want? Then maybe it's time to dial it back a
> little.
>
>
>
>
> "On 10/27/03 9:08 AM, "(email redacted)"
> blurbed:
>
> > You may remember I posted a similar issue a year or so ago. One of my
> > neighbors actually came to my door & told me that "they were watching
me!"
> and
> > that I'd better slow down because there are kids playing. I pointed out
> that
> > my car may make a lot of noise (Supertrapp!) but I DO NOT speed in our
> > neighborhood. There was no convincing him. Then I pissed him off & said
> that
> > there would be no worry of me running down his children as long as he
> keeps
> > them out of the street, because I promise not to drive on his lawn! All
> this
> > because I own a cool sportscar (and he has a minivan...poor bastard)
> >
> > --
> > John Hammer
> > JohnHammer.org
> >
> > Multimedia Host
> > AutoRacing1.com
> >
> > Creative Services Director
> > Cumulus Broadcasting, Kalamazoo MI
> >> Larry Alster wrote:
> >>> I have the same problem driving through the subdivision next to mine.
> The
> >>> people outside on lawns will scream at me as I go through. Got into a
> >>> discussion with one of them once asking why they ASSUMED I was
speeding
> when
> >>> I went past his house. I was doing 20-25 at the time but because I
> drive a
> >>> sportscar convertible I must have been speeding.
> >>
> >> Best response to this is to drive in first gear at 30mph while leaning
> >> on the air horns as you pass his house for the next month.... Okay,
> >> maybe not them ost mature response....
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Mail From: kentmclean (Kent McLean)

You may be on to something, but you're not the first
to come to that conclusion.

"Today's youth are disrespectful and undisciplined."
-- Plato, circa 400 B.C.

"Children nowadays are tyrants. They contradict their
parents, gobble their food and tyrannise their teachers."
-- Socrates

Kent


----- Original Message -----
From: Bryan Wyatt
To: Kent McLean ; Miata mailing list
Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 3:58 PM
Subject: Re: [Miata] The psychology of the little yellow sports car


Truth be told, Kent,

I think there is a difference between the pre 2000 kids and the post
2000 kids (ie due to graduate from high school).

Maybe I just don't have the great hindsight of more years to tell me
this yet. It's just something I've noticed. Another example is that
for some reason, the kids seem to be getting bigger at a younger age. I
mean, when I ran cross country, the average kid was 5'6"-5'8" maybe 150
wet. I was 6'0" and 155-165 dry. But now these kids just look bigger
and faster than I ever was.

Eh. I'm still smarter than they are any day of the week.

Bryan

Kent McLean <(email redacted)> wrote:
Bryan Wyatt wrote:
> Most of the young bands today are followed by kids who
> have twice the allowance I had (yes, I had an allowance...),
> drive better cars, and have cooler stuff to play with. Seems
> their ilk are what we would refer to as "spoiled brats"

Wow! And you're only 22? Wait until you get old and grey.
"Why those young whippersnappers. When I was a boy, I
had to walk to school. In the snow. With no boots. Uphill
both ways."

Kent, er.... not 22


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>Phredd said:
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>> +++ Your school had a fireplace!?! Wow, did you have it good!
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>I heard......don't know if it is true...and don't feel totally
>comfortable repeating this,
>but...... Someone told me Phredd graduated from High School with Jesus...
>
>Sorry, the devil made me do it................ :^)
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>
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Mail From: tofoo (Aram Kim)

hear hear.

On Mon, 27 Oct 2003, KC Murphy wrote:

> > From: (email redacted) [mailto:(email redacted)]On Behalf
> > Of Aram Kim
>
> > Ignorance breeds fear... or was it contempt?
>
> Best as I can see around my part of town, ignorance just breeds.
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