[AGL] car talk

[michele mason]

The Merc isn't much dif from my Crn Vic. Used to driving full-size 
truck, car is easy. Still love my trk.  I need a car with a real 
backseat for family and love the ride. Plus and its a big one—I don't 
have to fall down into it, or struggle to climb out. The trunk is big 
enough for feed, or (it looks like) a wheel chair. Blah! Thankfully, I 
don't always need one.
Got a church thing today and tomorrow, but I'll be home late afternoon. 
We'll talk.  mm

On Dec 1, 2006, at 6:50 AM, Michael Eisenstadt wrote:


> Jon,

>

> The only accident i remember having was to the side of our new Volvo 

> 122s

> when I turned into a narrow

> street without sidewalks in Florence Italy. Scraped

> a building. This was in 1966.

>

> Other than the passenger side of the car getting

> hung up on a high curb when parking, i havent

> had any accidents.

>

> I dont much like driving our present car, a Mercury

> Gran Marquis, like Michele's new car (good luck

> with it Michele) because it is so big. Plus you

> cant really see where the car ends front and back

> because of the styling. If i had my druthers (where

> ARE my druthers?) I'd drive a sports car more

> agile than a Dadsmobile.

>

> This car is rearwheel drive but is less refined

> than the Buick 81 LeSabre it replaces. The Buick

> was a true land yacht, not designed for driving

> on a country road but for sailing along on the

> boulevard.

>

> Mike

>>

>> Mike-- you have never had an accident? I have had a few, one only a 

>> few

>> months ago. They were mainly my fault (including one that almost 

>> killed

>> me,

>> a collision with an Oak tree out by Zilker Park). I had  a few in San

>> Francisco back in the 60s when senior citizens had a habit of running 

>> into

>> me (I think the dirty blue color of my VW blended in with the sky and 

>> they

>> found me invisible). I would leap out of my car yelling in rage  "You 

>> hit

>> my

>> car-- I'll shut up about it if you give me $50." Usually worked, 

>> because

>> they didn't want their insurance company to know the dirty little 

>> secret

>> of

>> their inability to drive straight and stop in time. Now I carry 

>> insurance

>> meticulously fill out forms. I think I'll walk from now on.

>>

>> Jon

>