[PRCo] Re: Off subject mail

[Fred Schneider]

15:30 HOURS IN LANCASTER:   CAR OUTSIDE THERMOMETER READS 99; INSIDE  
THERMOMETER READS 122.  I THINK THAT IS THE LAST TRIP OF THE DAY.   
ITS 72 INSIDE THE HOUSE, AT LEAST AS LONG AS PP&L DOESN'T SUFFER A  
POWER FAILURE.

On Aug 2, 2006, at 2:16 PM, Edward H. Lybarger wrote:

> 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
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> 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.
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