Date:         Mon, 22 Jan 2007 14:55:45 -0800
Reply-To:     Mike Miller <mwmiller@CWNET.COM>
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From:         Mike Miller <mwmiller@CWNET.COM>
Subject:      Re: Families - what do they know?
Comments: To: joel walker <jwalker17@EARTHLINK.NET>
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Everyone pretty much understands here. But this is, after all, California.*


Mike
*reference to The Gumball Rally


On 1/22/07 1:10 PM, "joel walker" <jwalker17@EARTHLINK.NET> wrote:

>> freighter. I was wishing I had at least one bus loving person with
>> me at the
>> time though.
>
> i've lived with that for 36 years now ... nobody in the family even
> cares to TRY to understand why i like vw buses. they couldn't
> understand why i got the first one, but they sure called me up to move
> things around the family in it!!! i was the one who got to move
> furniture from birmingham to mobile,and more junk from mobile to
> charlottesville, and later from montgomery to texas!!! and every time
> afterward, "when are you gonna get a real car instead of that piece of
> junk?".
>
> my sister still does it, even though SHE drives a chrysler minivan and
> has since they came out in 1984 ... she's on her sixth or seventh one
> (i can't keep up). she goes and gets a new one every time they come
> out with more "features".
>
> so what do i do? i say to hell with 'em and keep on driving the bus.
> :)
> i didn't buy the bus to make anybody happy but me ... and that's what
> it does,
> and the rest of the dysfunctional bio-related bozos can just go jump
> in the septic tank! :)
>
> unca joel
>
>