Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 21:56:45 -0800
Reply-To: Mike Miller <mwm@LANSET.COM>
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From: Mike Miller <mwm@LANSET.COM>
Subject: Re: rant. longer.
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Keep it up! We need more of this kind of stuff on the site. This is almost
as therapeutic as the Amish, Quaker, Mennonite extremist one.
ROTFLMAO
Mike
Hope your Van doesn't have to suffer anymore to get more of this, but a
Lancia B24 Spider, whoops Spyder. Get real. Why not a supercharged Cord?
Be more sensible. Heck, a Stanley Steamer is more sensible.
----- Original Message -----
From: robyn and heather <rudisill@USWEST.NET>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Monday, February 28, 2000 9:13 PM
Subject: rant. longer.
> I just wanted to rant a little. This has very little vanagon content, but
> I feel entitled to waste everyone's time. It's therapeutic, so bear with
me.
>
> I would like to go 30 days in a row without some one denting my 91
> Westy! I feel nuts for caring as much as I do, but at the same time I get
> pissed because some people just don't seem to care where their doors
swing,
> whether they are wholly in a parking space or how close they park their
> piece of crap next to my beautiful Westy.
>
> The latest offender was Carter VW in Ballard, of all places. They backed
> my van into something and mangled my rear mounted Yakima rack and put a
> dent in the door where the rack foot rests on the door. God knows what
> would have happened had the rack not been there. I spoke to the Service
> Manager and I quote, "if you say it happened here then it happened here
and
> we'll pay for it." Thankfully he was a smooth talker that answers his own
> phone. While I dialed the number I was really gearing up to give him
> hell. I was pretty pleased with our verbal detente. Of course, this was
> before I realized the door was dented as well. I don't feel like the dent
> warrants bodywork, and that it would be more a hassle than it's worth. It
> makes me so angry.
>
> This is the last in a line of automotive calamity that follows me whatever
> I drive... a few weeks ago, a woman rolled back into my front bumper while
> waiting for the Fremont Bridge in Seattle. While waiting for the bridge, I
> had time to get really excited. Luckily my gnarly bumper guard laid a
nice
> black smudge on her brand new turquois character-lacking grocery getter,
> otherwise I would have been staring at a split in my fiberglass bumper
that
> her insurance company couldn't begin to atone for. In an attempt to
> diffuse the situation, I told her she could probably just wash off the
> paint, and she looks at me and says, "I just better get your name and
> number in case I have to replace my bumper."
> "Are you nuts!" I cried. "You rolled in to me! Knucklehead! Do
you think
> this vanagon defies gravity? I know it functional, and has more character
> than that thing you drive could ever have; even if Christ himself drove it
> around the block, which I know for a fact he would drive a Westy and
> probably a syncro, but really, rolling up hill at a stop light!"
> Meanwhile next to us in traffic is a cabby with his open window
just even
> with my theatrics, and he is laughing so hard he can barely speak. The
> lady, seeing him as a key witness to her injustice asks him what really
> happened. He could hardly get out how funny it was that this lady would
> roll down a hill into some one and then be crazy enough to ask them to pay
> for the damage. The bridge comes down and he drives off muttering
> something that sounded like, "Christ driving a volkswagen he hee he."
>
> I could go on, but I will spare you all. Let's just say that I have owned
> almost as many cars as years I have been driving, and I hope to get the
> number of years bigger than the number of cars some day. I, like most VW
> lovers, have owned more than my fair share of cars, many of them VW's, a
> few Fiats, a 1954 Lancia B24 Spyder and many others. Most of them have
> ended in disaster (the Lancia was sold rather than destroyed, but it
ruined
> my driving record before we parted ways). I feel like I need to preserve
> my Westy before something really bad happens to it. But for now, it is my
> daily driver and I take my chance every morning and evening trying to
> determine where the next dent is coming from in order to limit its affect
> on my blood pressure.
>
> Thanks for listening.
> robyn
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