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Date:         Tue, 3 Jan 2012 09:55:57 -0600
Reply-To:     mcneely4@COX.NET
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From:         Dave Mcneely <mcneely4@COX.NET>
Subject:      Re: Strangest thing you've found in a new bus?
Comments: To: Joy Hecht <jhecht@ALUM.MIT.EDU>
In-Reply-To:  <CAFeNKKG7VbWDdq4KJwnzH_1g1N=_vM+cZb0Vnp7zS6dTJQzVMg@mail.gmail.com>
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---- Joy Hecht <jhecht@ALUM.MIT.EDU> wrote: > Oh all right, I'll guess I'll toss in my weird find too. > > A horseshoe. A real horseshoe, from a horse. > > You go figure...

Well, among some, a horseshoe is considered a good luck piece, sort of a lucky charm. Maybe the previous owner hauled the shoe around like some do a Saint Christopher's statuette or medal.

When I bought the house I live in now, there was a horseshoe nailed over the garage side door, and another over the main entrance door to the house. I haven't bothered to remove the garage one, but I thought the other one not only looked tacky, but might give visitors an erroneous belief that I am superstitious. I am thought in some circles to be weird, anyway. No need to exacerbate that belief.

mcneely

> > > > Joy > > > > On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 11:06 AM, T Collins <tonycollin@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Ok, I'll contribute > > > > This is not a weird thing as much as where it was..... > > > > Many of you (I'm sure) have seen those metal dishes that are > > magnetized. We use them when we are taking things appart so that > > things like bolts and nuts stay put. > > Like the one below: > > http://i00.i.aliimg.com/photo/237948897/Magnetic_Dish.jpg > > > > Well, I found it months after I bought my vanagon. It was ontop of the > > rear drivers side trailing arm. I drove the Vanagon from Cincinnati > > OH, to Ann Arbor, MI. It was grimmy and still had cotter pins on > > it.... > > > > So yes not a weird item. Just placement. > > > > Tony > > > > > > On 1/2/12, Courtney Hook <courtneyhook@shaw.ca> wrote: > > > A lovely gold ring with a small stone in it. Not that big, probably for a > > > child, but what really p***ed me off, is that the people I bought the van > > > off kept it after I showed them, even though they said it wasn't > > theirs!!! I > > > was just as dumb for not keeping it, but at the moment, I didn't object. > > :-/ > > > I'm now older and wiser, and gold is worth 1600 an ounce. > > > Courtney > > > > > > > > > -- > > 82 Scirocco "Rodolfo" 85 Vanagon "El Guapo" > > http://groups.google.com/group/wash-co-vws2< > > http://groups.google.com/group/wash-co-vws2?lnk=gcimh> > > (new) > > > > Consider helping my friend, She is a survivor! Read her story and help : > > *Help > > Lisa< > > http://main.acsevents.org/site/TR/MakingStridesAgainstBreastCancer/MSABCFY12GreatLakes?px=1441845&pg=personal&fr_id=36017 > > > > > * > >

-- David McNeely


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