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11-03-2013, 11:31 AM | #74 |
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" Well regarding the original topic of this thread "
At least we're bringing some action to this site . Us old farts do get off track . |
11-03-2013, 01:04 PM | #75 |
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I'm Here Everyday........
I always check-in here everyday....I usually search through the posts for specific things & am always learning something new.
Going on 7 months with 4,884 miles as of today...car has been flawless, just awesome, love the heck out of it, so glad I found this car it is perfect. Need to set up my 1st free servicing next week - hopefully I'll get a good reception at the dealer, sure I will. Gas mileage seems to be going up - darn near 40 mpg without a long highway trip yet. Unreal, so lovin' this car...STILL! |
11-03-2013, 03:50 PM | #76 |
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11-03-2013, 05:03 PM | #77 |
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LOL. My aunt got it right with her 2nd husband. My uncle and my grandfather got along so well...so much in common...same high school, same college, same fraternity, and both officers during their time in the Navy. My uncle is half Danish/half English (and just loved it when his son married someone half Norwegian....my uncle is the opposite of someone believing in a 'Social Welfare State', but he still thinks the world would be in much better shape if run entirely by Scandinavians). AFAIK my grandfather was 100% English and Welsh, but my uncle used to say (they had so much else in common) that my grandfather must be half Scandinavian (perhaps some of the English ancestors migrated from areas currently part of Denmark or Norway). Interesting that you mention the bad boat experience. My grandfather was an Ensign in WW One (he was in the latter part of his mid-sixties when I was born) and his ship/boat sank (not in battle) off the coast of Ensenada, Mexico. He only boarded any type of vessel one more time in his life...in the 1970s he felt he HAD to see where Ted Kennedy veered off the road a few years before, drowning Mary Jo Kopechne....so he and my grandmother took the ferry (or ferries?...I don't know the area well) out to Chappaquiddick (he took two vacations with JFK and two other men in 1945 and knew Joe Sr from some business deals they were both a part of over the years). Soon after seeing Chappaquiddick, my grandmother tried to convince him to go on a cruise. No luck. However, he LOVED trains. He took trains (for business trips...pre interstate system) to many different places. He and his brother used to pick up their new cars at the factory, rather than at the dealership. They'd take a train to the factory location, and then drive the cars back.
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11-03-2013, 05:20 PM | #78 | |
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11-03-2013, 07:33 PM | #79 | |
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I actually lived in the Red Roof Inn in Hickory for the month of July 2010 while we were looking for a house in Lenoir. There was a Starbucks about 300-400 feet from the motel, it was good. (Considering there were 2 within a block from where I worked next to the White house in DC. ) I was there 2-3 times a day, VENTI refill please! MPG's have been very, very good. I fill-up once every 3 weeks. I can feel the engine braking pretty darn good around here, even coming out of our subdivision. Will be driving up the mountain soon, last time was 4-11-13 picking up the new Yaris. |
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11-03-2013, 11:22 PM | #80 | |
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Just one city, though. I know there are a bunch of nice people in North Carolina. My godson and his parents and siblings live there, and they love it. |
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11-04-2013, 06:18 PM | #81 | |
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Most people around here are the same way...it's extremely depressing to work around the public here (that's another story) There are a LOT of great people here, but most (great people) are the older & the employed. Should have moved to Texas instead. Spent the Summer of 1980 there and it was fantastic. 'Urban Cowboy', 'The Shining' & 'Who Shot J.R.'? - Those were the days... |
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11-04-2013, 06:55 PM | #82 | |
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I first visited Texas in 1988, but we only went to the Dallas-Fort Worth metro...crazy growth since then. |
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11-04-2013, 08:11 PM | #83 | |
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I stayed in Arlington, TX in 1980 - I can't imagine how much it has grown in the last 30 years. I see a lot of new or newer cars around, there IS some money here. The weather is good to all the cars, the older ones look so good, it's hard to tell they are 20 years old or more (sometimes) Some look dated, but NO rust. I think it's the 90's cars that I think are newer. One thing I notice is there are a lot of cars with bald tires... my gosh, baby seats in the back...whatever! There are yearly inspections, but who knows who is paying off who. I'd rather have CHEAP new tires than some of the bald ones I've seen - I don't understand it. Most would say they are spending their money on basic needs, I think that includes alcohol, smokes & drugs for a lot of them. I guess it is like riding the Metro in DC - all sorts of people from all walks of life |
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11-04-2013, 11:21 PM | #84 | |
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Fort Bend County (on the other side of the Houston metro, and where Yarisworld member esse10 lives) is, by most criteria, growing even faster than Montgomery County. |
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11-05-2013, 12:19 AM | #85 | |
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Sad that some think of alcohol and smokes as basic needs. The alcohol part is more understandable, but....ask some people why they started smoking and they'll say 'Because my friends were doing it'. As my mother would say when i tried to pull that line with something (not smoking...I never picked up the habit)..'If your friends told you to go jump off a bridge, would you do it?'. My mother smoked, but she started trying to quit when the Surgeon General's report came out. It took her 4 years, but she did it. My dad's attitude was that life wasn't worth living without smoking . Let anyone who reads this take this as a scary warning to try to stop. My dad smoked 4 packs of unfiltered Pall Malls a day (started when he was in the Army) for over 35 years. During the last year of his life, after walking half a block he'd have to stop and rest. He died 2 days after his 62nd birthday. His grandmother (who didn't smoke) lived to be over 100 years old. I don't understand the smoking/oarenting/bald tires scenario any better than you do. From what I've heard, your general neck of the woods draws well heeled retirees from out of the area, so that might explain some of the money to buy new cars. |
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