From our Ohio trip that ended Saturday, the times my wife saw the waves and thumbs up that I did not. She was amused and her faith in my faded hipness restored that so many folks seem to admire our choice of vehicle...until I have to pull over on a climb to let a string of cars go by. Incidentally, in her eyes any shred of hipness conveyed by Westy ownership is cancelled out by my insistence on wearing socks with sandals. Stephen --- On Fri, 9/14/12, Gabriel Hourtouat <ghourtouat@GMAIL.COM> wrote: From: Gabriel Hourtouat <ghourtouat@GMAIL.COM> Subject: Fraydaye -- What Was Your Favourite Westy Moment This Week? To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM Date: Friday, September 14, 2012, 12:50 AM Mine: Sunny, mid-day family outing to the library. Parallel park in front of a restaurant between SUPER! swanky, lovely green Porsche and some big Audi. Wifey says "look" -- kids wave to the faces watching us through the restaurant windows. It's so innocent that the faces wave back. Park job is perfection in one movement, stop engine, wheels coast to the curb. Side door opens. Nalgene water bottle and children's toys make a racket as they tumble out of the van and spread across the sidewalk. Kids and parents laugh, as if on cue. Same faces watch us pull out of the parking spot 20 minuts later. Exhaust leak (which has graduated from "tick tick tick" and is no-longer self-sealing when hot) accelerates slowly into the distance - fut......fut.....fut....fut...fut..fut.fut.fut.fut. wifey laughs -- she loves the sound of the engine. she wants me to go see Frank C and Rita again. she wants us to get an orange bus. she's crazy. |
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