Welcome to Florida, Fred!  ;>)

-- Fred Schneider <fwschneider@comcast.net> wrote:
For those who wonder if the list has dried up, this is posted just 
to  
create the illusion of mail.

Therefore you have mail....

First off I wanted to comment that there was an interesting survey 
in  
this morning's local newspaper that there was a significant drop in  
the number of Americans who actually like to drive their cars.  The  
percentage who like driving is a number now roughly 0.10 lower than  
it was in 1991.   The number who simply regard their cars as a means  
to get from point a to point b increased.   And Ford and GM were  
staring at 40 and 50 percent drops in sales this July under last  
July.   If more and more people are no longer enamored with cars 
just  
for the sake of them being cars, maybe the automakers are not  
thinking right?????   And then there was Daimler-Chrysler suing a  
firm for importing the Smart car into the U. S.   I see that they  
have now decided to market the car in the U. S. themselves at 
perhaps  
$15,000....   And Vespa is selling 25% more scooters this year than  
last in the U. S.  (of course 25% times 4 = 5 ... when dealing with  
small numbers, it really isn't a big increase.

And I want to thank Holland for telling me that heat wave was coming  
east.   The outside the car thermometer read 100 yesterday  
afternoon.   At 9:30 this morning, when I left the barber shop, the  
outside one read 88 and the inside the car one read 108 degrees.   
By  
the time I left the Waffle House some 45 minutes later, the outside  
air was up to 92 degrees.   They're calling for 100 degrees with a  
heat index of 108 today.   Thanks for sending it East, Jim.