Oh man, Kas..... There's so many things in our lives where we just
kick ourselves, aren't there? Ugh!!! Some say, "That which doesn't
kill us, makes us stronger", which may be true, but some things we do
just make us feel like complete imbeciles later! My own list is
long. But you hit it with the "yes, the roses are grand"... sometimes
we do what we felt we had to do at the time... and in your case, you
did stop and smell the roses... and that's a good thing.
In the 80's I gave up my first Triumph TR 4A for peanuts (peanut shells,
actually). At the time I felt my back was against the wall, but in
hindsight, it really wasn't. However, the relationship was getting to
be a bit too much like Stephen King, so "Christine" really had to go...
and I'm all the better for it. Then well over a decade later, I bought
a different Triumph TR 4A, but this one is male and doesn't buck me when
I want to spend my time with other people and machines!
--Justin Wagner
kas kastner wrote:
> Careful what you throw away. I cleaned my garage in 1998 and threw away
>the compete history of the Competition Department. I had every letter and
>the answer from the company for a period of 9 years and I tossed it cause I
>figured no one would ever care or be interested, including me. Then seeing
>the barrel was not full I also tossed out four note books of dyno records on
>all the engines I had done. That gave me enough room for the parts I needed
>to keep to fix the garden water drip system. Oh yeah, then I decided five
>years later to write a book. Good thinking Kas. (yes, the roses are grand)
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "William G Rosenbach" <wgrosenbach@juno.com>
> To: <mjb@autox.team.net>
> Cc: <fot@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2004 9:09 AM
> Subject: Re: Chuck it!
>
>
> > Mark,
> > Can a person have too much of that kind of stuff?
> > If you keep it, you will never need it.
> > As soon as you get rid of it, you'll need it!
> > Bill
> >
> > On Wed, 4 Feb 2004 02:28:45 -0700 "Mark J. Bradakis"
><mjb@autox.team.net>
> > writes:
> > > I'm working on cleaning up the shop. It seems like an infinite task
> > > of shuffling various bits of rusted, corroded metal from here to
> > > there
> > > and back again. What should I keep, and what should get thrown in
> > > the
> > > dumpster? How many rusted flywheels should one keep on hand? How
> > > many
> > > corroded brake rotors? How many dented and dirty valve covers?
> > >
> > > What would you keep, and what would you toss?
> > >
> > > mjb.
> > >
> > >
> >
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