Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2007 21:49:59 -0500
Reply-To: Joy Hecht <jhecht@ALUM.MIT.EDU>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: Joy Hecht <jhecht@ALUM.MIT.EDU>
Subject: Re: blatant plea for sympathy (LVC!)
In-Reply-To: <20070114220808.30258.qmail@web81702.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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Oh, but I didn't tell you guys about my _really_ serious problem! Forget my
broken foot, I am just having such an awesomely bad hair day, I can't
believe it. (Imagine high-pitched whiney tone of voice to go with that
comment :-)
Most of you guys don't have much hair any more, you don't even know what bad
hair days are like!
Joy
:::-----Original Message-----
:::From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM] On Behalf
:::Of Evan Mac Donald
:::Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2007 5:08 PM
:::To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
:::Subject: Re: blatant plea for sympathy (LVC!)
:::
:::Nope-even better (worse) -
:::
::: Bad weather, stuck-in-the-house, with two teen-agers, AND the wife. Dog
:::is stuck, too.
:::
:::Mike Miller <mwmiller@CWNET.COM> wrote:
::: OK, you two, it's one-upmanship time!
:::
:::I have a very bad, severe even, hangnail.
:::
:::So nah, nah, nah.
:::
:::
:::Mike
:::
:::
:::On 1/14/07 12:15 PM, "Keith Ovregaard" wrote:
:::
:::> Ok, Joy, stop hogging the sympathy! My poor neglected westy has been
:::> sitting in the driveway for 5 days waiting for me to recover from what
:::> may be walking pneumonia. Just walking up the driveway from the mailbox
:::> gets me winded and feeling like an old geezer! Fifty is too young for
:::> geezerdom status! Sheesh, I was running 4-5 miles several times a week
:::> prior to this! Not only that, a good friend of almost 30 years just
:::> died of a cancerous brain tumor. The last photo I have of her is one
:::> that her hubby shot of the 2 of us in front of the VikingWagen in San
:::> Francisco just after her 3rd brain surgery. Other than that, life is
:::> fine, Oh yeah, I forgot about the divorce and my aging parent issues
:::> (mom has Alzheimer's or some kind of dementia, but she won't see a
:::> doctor).
:::>
:::> I don't mean to one-up you Joy, really. And I don't want to sound like
:::> I am complaining either. Life could be worse! I have many good friends,
:::> a wonderful 16 year old daughter who just dropped by with some cough
:::> medicine and food, a nice roof over my head, a heater that works, the
:::> sun is shining strong today and there are a bunch of very cool people
:::> out there all over the world who share more than just a passion for
:::> their old busses. It's nice to be a part of this group of fine people.
:::>
:::> Keith O.
:::> 90 Westy Syncro "VikingWagen"
:::> Past VeeDubs in the family
:::> 1984 Westy "Brownie"
:::> 1980 PU diesel
:::> 1979 Rabbit
:::> 1963? 23 window Splitty
:::> 1965 Bus
:::> 1969 Bus
:::> 1959 Bug
:::>
:::>
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