[PRCo] Re: Off subject mail

[Edward H. Lybarger]

I haven't "liked" driving a car since sometimes in the 1970s.

Now I'm going to go out in the however-hot-it-is and mow my lawn because
there's noplace else in the schedule to do it!

Isn't retirement wonderful?

Ed

-----Original Message-----
From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org
[mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org]On Behalf Of Fred
Schneider
Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 12:25 PM
To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
Subject: [PRCo] Off subject mail


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.