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To: Linda Watson <lwatson@cnx.net>
Subject: re: "beaters"
From: "W. R. Gibbons" <gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu>
Date: Thu, 8 May 1997 12:32:37 -0400 (EDT)
On Thu, 8 May 1997, Linda Watson wrote:

> I want to be the oldest old lady in Canada driving an MGB.  My kids tell me
> it's already true, and they agree with the mechanic who said that MGB
> stands for May Go Broke.  The obsession skipped one generation but my
> grandkids, ages 2 to 10, just might have caught the bug!
> 
> Happy trails, 
> 
> Linda 
> Kelowna, B.C.

One of the several advantages of having a few years on your odometer is
that you learn not to worry much about what others think.  And just as
that spirit of liberation settles on you, your kids start trying to get
you to conform to their ideas of what a "proper" older person should and
should not do. 

Tell them to shut up.  Wear purple.  Drive an MG.

   W. R. Gibbons  Dept. of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics
                  Univ. of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, VT
                  gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu  (802) 656-8629


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