Date:         Sat, 11 Feb 2006 20:09:17 -0800
Reply-To:     BA <ande@SAN.RR.COM>
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From:         BA <ande@SAN.RR.COM>
Subject:      Re: Camping tips and tricks
Comments: To: Mark Tuovinen <mst@AK.NET>
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On Sat, 11 Feb 2006 15:48:12 -0900, you wrote:

>Re: "  that's maybe why guys can't ask for directions, because they  have left and right so mixed up?"
>
>Actually is it my wife that has problems with left and right, she is dyslexic.  When I give her directions I don't even 
bother with saying left, I say  "your other left" and she gets it. She
is a great navigator 99% of the time, and she puts up with me.:-)

>Mark in AK
>


I grew up where Large Body Of Water was at the east (Chicago).  I now
live where Large Body of Water is at the West (Sandy Eggo).  I gave up
on "right" and "left" long ago, and settled on "driver side" or
"passenger side".

>> The RIGHT side of your back seat?  On my van that pesky dark hole
>> is on the left!  Or do you guys do your directions as if you were
>> driving backwards?
>>
>> Hmm, that's whmaybe y guys can't ask for directions, because they
>> have left and right so mixed up?
>>
>> FWIW, when I dropped a pair of really nice earrings down there, I
>> figured I needed a solution to the trap.  $2.95 in the local
>> hardware store in Port Townsend, WA, one of those lovely long
>> skinny tools with little grippy wires at one end, and a spring-
>> loaded little trigger thing at the other end for letting the wires
>> out and pulling them in, so you can neatly retrieve the important
>> stuff you drop.

*What* hole?  The right side of our back seat is against the side of
the van, and there's no hole.  The left side is against the closet,
and there's no hole.  There's only the space under the back seat where
the back-seat seat belts get lost into.

Is there some storage space I'm not aware of?  :-)


BTW, we stuff our extra plastic grocery-shopping bags into one of the
compartments on the Duluth Trading Company organizer that hangs on the
back of the passenger seat.


B(&S)
'87 Westy 'Esmerelda Blanc'
SoCal