Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2001 21:35:51 -0500
Reply-To: Max Wellhouse <maxjoyce@IPA.NET>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: Max Wellhouse <maxjoyce@IPA.NET>
Subject: Re: Bus Depot advocate(in defense of slow..)
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I'm pretty sure it was the famous Chico Esquela from Saturday Night Live
that proclaimed, "Baaaas Deeepoohh....have been beddy beddy good to meee!"
DM&FS
----- Original Message -----
From: "C. Chris Snyder" <trollboy_1@LYCOS.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2001 10:25 AM
Subject: Re: Bus Depot advocate(in defense of slow..)
> ---I agree with you Robert. I have been using the Bus Depot for several
things I needed and they have always come though for me.
>
> I am 51 and I can remember when people were more relaxed and didn't always
complain about not having something yesterday. Just like driving here in
Mississippi on US 90 almost everyone has to drive 60 or 80 in a 45 mph speed
limit so they can get to the next red light first. I can't figure this out.
>
> The Bus Depot is good with me. Good work guys.
>
> Chris
> LIFE-IT IS WHAT IT IS.
>
>
> On Fri, 27 Jul 2001 13:23:58
> Robert Keezer wrote:
> >The Bus Depot is slow?
> >What would we do without them? Pay more and get it faster from the other
guys
> >I guess.
> >
> >Of all the vendors to bash, The Bus Depot gets more advertising from one
> >bashing on the Vanagon list than some businesses get from one word of
praise
> >elsewhere.
> >
> >Why-because it brings out all the loyal customers like myself in defense
of a
> >valuable resource for maintenance and restoration that The Bus Depot is.
> >
> >I lived in a remote Alaska village where your order takes a loooong time,
> >arriving by dogsled to your front door. OK, just kidding about the
dogsled!
> >
> >so I ordered a snare drum when I was in school, and by the time it
arrived I
> >had taken up the trombone!
> >
> >It's not uncommon for most things you order by mail to take two months up
> >there, especially if it has to come by barge (find the Kuskokwim River) .
> >I have always wondered if any Vanagons ever made it out there. They only
have
> >a bout twenty-five miles of road.
> >
> >Down in the lower 48 everyone has to have it now! Instant everything.
Even
> >the microwave is too slow-I want it hot in five seconds! Busses and
Vanagons
> >are slow-why shouldn't Bus Depot be?
> >
> >Bus Depot is OK with me-gotta go, have to get that order off to Bus
Depot.
> >
> >Robert Keezer
> >
> >1982 Westfalia
> >
> >
>
>
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