[Spridgets] A day at the auto show

[Jim Johnson]

We use our 4 door pickup as a regular vehicle. Wouldn't be without it.
Also, I wouldn't trust any of my neighbors with so much as a blade of my
grass!!

"Mister Goodwrench" lives north of me. Pure white trash. His tool kit
consists of a battery charger and an extension cord. If that doesn't solve
his vehicle problems, he pulls them into the back yard and leaves them to
take root. Twice I've had to call the city to cite him in order to get the
dead vehicles out of his back yard. Long ago we put up a hedge of thick
vines to obscure the view from our patio but he started stacking the
wreckage higher than the fence!

To the south of me I have an entire aboriginal tribe of hispanics. There
appears to be some meager relationship between a few of them as extended
family. The little house has 3 rooms and I've counted as many as 20 adults
and children living there but the residents change on a very regular basis.
Several times we've had to shelter young girls who's male relatives have
been abusing them. They throw their Corona bottles across the street and
into my yard and pee in the street after dark. There is a hispanic men's
club that meets on their front porch most nights and I have to ask them to
please tone down the noise after 1:00am. They smile and swear at me in
Mexican Spanish and then go right on with the racket. Some nights it is
entertaining though... when they start shouting and pull out the knives and
pistols!

Used to be a nice neighborhood. Not anymore.

Cheers!!
Jim

On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 9:45 AM, Lee Fox <lee.fox at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> That's why I finally stopped owning pickups. Friends, neighbors and
> relatives used it more than me!
> Bought a 5x8 trailer that I pull with my 4 cyl. Camry and can do 95% of
> what I could with the pickup.
> The other 5% I use my neighbor's and he uses my trailer when he doesn't
> want to get the truck dirty.
>
> Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 06:24:34 -0800 (PST)
> From: David Booker <tncarnut1 at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [Spridgets] A day at the auto show
> To: David Riker <davriker at nwi.net>, Frank Clarici
>    <spritenut at comcast.net>
> Cc: spridgets at autox.team.net
> Message-ID: <15213.5301.qm at web36802.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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>
> --- On Sun, 2/22/09, Frank Clarici <spritenut at comcast.net> wrote:
> >
> > 13.  When I need a truck, I borrow the neighbors,
>
> I have a truck and yes the neighbor does borrow it maybe once a year.
> hmmmmm.
>
> Yes, but occassional rentals won't work for you since you use it every day.
>  I
> doubt any of your LBC's (or the Jag for that matter) would be a viable
> substitute. Now maybe if you built one of those Spridget pickups...
> David Booker
> '71 Miget
> Long Island