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Re: Just my Luck

To: spridgets <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: Just my Luck
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 03:58:29 -0800 (PST)
i live under the airport too.  sometimes a guy will come on my radio
and yell that hes getting a lot of interference and hes switching to
another channel.  perhaps he can hear my radio.  *shrug*


--- Charles Christ <cfchrist@earthlink.net> wrote:
> frank,
> time to get out the magic rubber chicken and hang it up prominently
> and get
> a set of magic beads and hang with the chicken!  LOL!  my old garage
> in
> bethlehem had an automatic opener and one day it started to close all
> by
> itself!  with my bugeye 1/2 out of the shop.   got the car out in
> time!
> just in time to have a huge comercial jet fly over the garage in the
> landing
> pattern for local airport.    happened once more and same thing a jet
> went
> over my garage.  that did it!  i disconnected the remote controll
> segment.
> .........
> 
> chuck
> been there....broke that......and fixed it at least twice!
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Frank Clarici <spritenut@exit109.com>
> To: Spridgets <spridgets@autox.team.net>
> Date: Friday, February 27, 2004 3:13 AM
> Subject: Just my Luck
> 
> 
> >Get this!
> >Yesterday morning I was getting stuff for work out of my garage, I
> hit
> >the garage door opener button and Ka-BOOM! The overhead door hit the
> 8'
> >flouresent fixture and sent an 8' tube crashing down length ways
> along
> >the yellow Sprite. Bonnet off, engine exposed, interior exposed, and
> new
> >paint. fortunately only 1 very tiny chip on the edge of the cowl and
> I
> >think the cockpit trim will hide it. But I did have glass
> everywhere.
> >Glass imbeded in the new carpet, all over the engine in all the
> nooks
> >and crannys, on the blue Sprite, and all over the floor.
> >So why did this happen? Same door, same opener, same light fixture
> for 2
> >years now. Tonight it did not hit, why did it hit yesterday?
> >It never hit at 0* nor at 100* so 40* should not have mattered. It
> was
> >40 tonight and it didn't hit.
> >Spirits? Gremlins? Leap year? I don't have a clue.
> >
> >--
> >Frank Clarici


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