Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 17:21:04 -0700
Reply-To: Joy Hecht <jhecht@ALUM.MIT.EDU>
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From: Joy Hecht <jhecht@ALUM.MIT.EDU>
Subject: Re: Glimpse of westy - Westy Sightings
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When I'm on the east coast, I wave to all VW buses and vans, and they
usually wave back. But out here on the Olympic Peninsula there are so many
buses and vanagons around that I'd be waving every five minutes! Sometimes
I do wave, and they usually seem to wave back, but sometimes I'm
concentrating on the road instead.
My dilemma is whether to wave at Eurovans.
Joy
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Joy Hecht
and Matilda, 1989 Burgundy Vanagon
For musings about life and the vanadventures:
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:::-----Original Message-----
:::From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM] On Behalf
:::Of bueses
:::Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 4:29 PM
:::To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
:::Subject: Re: Glimpse of westy - Westy Sightings
:::
:::>
:::>> Do older busses wave only at older busses?
:::>> Or is it that people travelling wave, but once back in the city they
:::don't
:::>> anymore?
:::>
:::> I think a lot of bay and splittie drivers tend to not "see" our big
:::> square Vanagons as easily, but mostly I think you're on to something
:::> there with the "vacation" vs. "just driving somewhere" thing.
:::............
:::
:::Hmmmm, having come to the vanagon era only 3 years ago after driving
:::split
:::windows for years all over the west to many shows, etc, I thought all
:::split
:::drivers waved to all other buses/vans, but most vanagon/euros didn't wave
:::or
:::even get it! Then again split drivers think that bay windows are "fat
:::chick
:::buses" & eurovans are simply not acceptable, but vanagons are sort of ok.
:::My split friends will even let moi park w/ them in the splittie camping
:::area!
:::
:::Then again, there are divisions even in the splittie crowd-
:::barndoors/pressed
:::bumpers/bullet turn signal buses are definitely cooler than later buses,
:::&
:::67's (12 v.) are at the bottom of the totem pole?
:::
:::I believe that each sub culture is all a matter of perception, there is
:::no
:::right or wrong.
:::
:::Tom-never driven a bay window bus
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