ROTFLMAO
You are married to a pretty sharp cookie.
----- Original Message -----
From <John.Deikis at med.va.gov>
To: <Spridgets@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 12:58 PM
Subject: FW: Vacations
>I forwarded Glen's email to my wife because she had us planning a vacation
> to Mexico a couple of nights ago. This was in my IN BASKET when I got to
> work today. I hate this sort of thing. 27 years of marriage and she's
> got
> me ALL WRONG!!!
> JohnD
>
>
> I believe that though you dream of such a vacation, for you, it would be
> the
> vacation from hell.
> You would get up in the morning after having stayed up until 2 am because
> you could and forgot to go to bed. You'd fight with Jeff who was not up
> and
> didn't do anything and left his breakfast dishes on the table. My car
> probably wouldn't start and you'd spend an hour trying to get it running.
> Then you'd start up the kerosene heater, go inside to let the garage warm
> up, start reading the want ads and finally get into the garage at 1pm.
> You'd realize that you needed a part at about 5 and decide to get up early
> the next day to go to a junkyard. The next day, by about 2, you'd find
> the
> part in Saginaw so you'd decide to polish the headlights and wait til
> Wednesday to really begin work on your car. Wednesday you'd drive to
> Saginaw and on the way, you'd see a yard sale of old farm equipment and
> stop
> to look through them. You'd make it to Saginaw at about 3:30, find the
> part
> but not have enough time to pull it off the junkcar. You'd manage to
> convince the owner to stay late and you'd return home about 9pm ready to
> start the next day. The next day, you'd need to clean off the part - but
> you'd discover that the parts washer isn't big enough so you'd go to Steve
> Steebs where you'd have a cup of coffee, talk about racing and the project
> you are working on and you'd get home about 3pm after stopping at Stadium
> Hardware and admiring the shiny bolts and nuts. Now you'd be ready to
> start
> - as soon as you start up the kerosene heater and warm up the garage. I'd
> get home from work early and fix dinner. You'd get out in the garage
> about
> 7pm and work until 11:30. Of course, you'd be a bit tired, you would have
> forgotten all of what you intended to do and so you'd spend most of the
> time
> rereading all the articles you've accumulated to figure out why you needed
> the part in the first place. By the time you'd get to bed, you'd be
> depressed because you only have one day left to finish your project.
> Friday, you'd have trouble getting out of bed because you're depressed and
> you'd have a big breakfast. Out in the garage nice and early at 11, you'd
> pull out whatever in the car and realize it was attached in five different
> places and two of the five places were permanently stuck. After pounding
> on
> the parts, you'd go to Dan's to get a tool. Two hours later, you'd be
> back
> to pound some more - and then you'd break one of the pieces that you can't
> buy anywhere. Shortly thereafter, your vacation would end.
> And I still love you!
> Carol
>
>>Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 10:38:33 -0800
>>From: "Glen Byrns" <grbyrns@ucdavis.edu>
>>Subject: vacation in heaven
>>
>>I just got back to work this morning after the best week off I've ever
>>had.
>>I
>>spent the last week getting up with the family as usual, kid off to
>>school,
>>wife off to work, me off to the garage. I spent the entire week working
>>on
>>LBC's. One trip to Stockton to check out s few junkyard spridgets, scored
> a
>>sway bar and rebuildable ribcase for the Austin project. Pulled the
>>bugeye
>>motor and swapped out the oiled clutch and cured the crankcase b
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