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Gotta have a sense of humor...

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Subject: Gotta have a sense of humor...
From: Daniel Neuman <dneuman@stars.sfsu.edu>
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 15:33:05 -0800 (PST)
> 
> Hello All,
>       Tom's sense of humor comment got me to thinking about last night..
> My girlfriend and I were working on the car.. I was wrapping my header with 
>insulation tape and she was cleaning up the wiring harness...  It was warm in 
>my garage so I was wearing shorts.. After about ten minutes my hands and legs 
>started to ITCH considerably...  Gee I thought, I bet this header tape is 
>probably made with fiber glass and now I have thousands of microscopic 
>splinters on my hands/legs.. Sure would be nice if the directions mentioned 
>that you should be covered up......gotta have a sense of humor.
>       After that I went to check up on Irene and noticed that she had done a 
>good job of cleaning up the connectors and cleaning up the tape wrapped wiring 
>bundles.. I notice a smudge on the left front fender.... I look closer... HOLY 
>SH*T that's not a smudge it's a series of DEEP squiggly scratches in the paint 
>where 'someone' had been resting her full weight on the fender and sliding 
>around while she was working........gotta have a sense of 
>humor..ARRRRRRGHHHH!!!
>       Or how about how I can clean-prep two seemingly similar pieces but when 
>I paint one (with the expensive POR-15) it wont stick but the other piece it 
>coats as advertised....gotta have a sense of humor...
>       Or how I went to just about every hardware store in the city looking 
>for a 4.5 inch metric bolt but NONE of them carried it??? 
> 
>       I swear I never realized what a pain in the caboose this little resto 
>project was going to be.... Sometimes I can just KICK myself...'Sure it will 
>only take a weekend to completely redo my rear end..' yea right...
> Can you tell I am just chock full of roadster aggravation..
> 
> Daniel Neuman
> Dept. of Radiation Oncology
> 533 Parnassus Ave. Rm. U368P
> University of California
> San Francisco, CA  94143-0226
> 
> phone:     415-502-5177
> fax:         415-502-5175
> email:     neuman@radonc17.ucsf.edu
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