Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 16:30:42 -0800
Reply-To: Joseph Fortino <fortino1@ONEBOX.COM>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: Joseph Fortino <fortino1@ONEBOX.COM>
Subject: Re: New to List
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sure live balance! my wife understands my obsession and it becomes
hers. awhile back the people across the street got a mini van ( yuck
)
don't say the word unless i'm pissed :).. she calls it mini van syndrome
LOL. but they were tring to sell her on it.. OHH the people that live
around you will think your nuts owning a VW.. just let them think
what they want.
our van is sitting right now, waiting parts and mostly money to do the
very leaky heads i put off for such a long time, But this should be on
then road soon i hope..
next car will be a Westy when we get the bucks. NOT A mini van
BTW Welcome to the list.
--
Joseph Fortino
fortino1@onebox.com - email
(510) 360 -7829 voicemail/fax
---- Ed L Lloyd <elloyd10@JUNO.COM> wrote:
> Hey, you guys are going to get me fired!
>
> I’m new to this list, found it from a recent article in the Wash Post
> newspaper, and signed on.
>
> It’s amazing to find discussions of things I have dealt with over the
> years – flashing oil light, dripping heads, stopped odometer, parking
> garage problems, camping equipment questions, trip reports, practical
> advice and opinions, etc.
>
> I find myself reading each and every posting, whether about Roo bars
> in
> Australia, leaking heads in Mexico, or brakes and wheels in California
> or
> Canada, and working through the questions and problems in my mind
> as I
> follow the List comebacks.
>
> Now this is really putting a dent in my E-mail time. (Wife and teenage
> son are always trying to bump me off the computer so they can use it.)
>
> The solution I found was to forward the unread messages to myself at
> work. Now I spend a good portion of the next morning reading them
> and
> dodging my boss! Trouble is we recently got an e-mail “sniffer”,
> which
> will surely nab me soon, but I can’t stop.
>
> This leads to the question of why. What is so interesting about these
> postings? Why bother to keep the old van running? (It is a daily
> driver
> since I purchased it new in 87.)
>
> The wife and kids are hinting at trading it in on a new car, but I
> don’t
> want to for some reason. I am fortunate enough to be able to pay cash
> for a new car if I wanted, but I don’t want to.
>
> Does this mean I am becoming a van nut? Is there a way to have a job,
> a
> wife, and a Vanagon too? Any ideas on how to deal with this?
>
> Ed in Maryland
> 87 Westy
> The "Van with no Name,"
> at least not yet.
>
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