Since I agree with the theory that all teenagers go through a period of
temporary insanity (Even, no make that especially me. Somehow I survived.),
I am thinking that my 13 year old son will have to satisfy himself with an
old tank. I'm thinking Checker Marathon myself...
Gary
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sam Walters" <slwalters@EARTHLINK.NET>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2001 12:27 AM
Subject: Re: Thought for the Day----

> Volks,
>
> There will be Vanagon content!
>
> Well, those New York Giants weren't up to it last night.  Being a
> reader of both the New York Times and the Baltimore Sun, I have
> followed both teams' successes this year through the football season.
> Of course, as a resident of Baltimore, I have been far more interested
> in the Ravens' season and was rooting for them to win the Super Bowl.
>
> Honestly, I didn't think they would get by the Giants.  Thought it
> would be 14-10, 10-7, or something like that - Giants win.  Boy, was
> I wrong.
>
> Since being in the city that wins something like the Super Bowl or the
> World Series is such a rare event for most people, I decided to take
> my 11 year old out for a quick drive around Baltimore's downtown last
> night immediately after the game. Baltimore is known for very
> mannerly non-riotous crowds, so it was not as crazy a decision as it
> might be in some other cities.  Wanted him to have an extra memory of
> this. I live close in, 2 1/2 miles from the harbor (heart of the city)
> on a straight shot one way street, so we hustled out to the Syncro and
> drove around for a few minutes as the excitement started. Horns blowing,
> people yelling and all of that stuff.  Even my son, who is not very
> interested in sports, was yelling "Go, Ravens!" etc., and we were
> blowing the van's horn like all of the others.  Later, there were
> 150,000 people downtown and the police cut off all the major highways
> into downtown to limit the crowd.  But we got in and out and back home
> before there were more than about a few thousand down there, but you
> could see it building up.
>
> But we keep on having these "father son" things in one of the two vans,
> and he still claims he is going to get one of them for his car when
> he is old enough to drive.  We'll see what puberty does for his car
> tastes.
>
> Sam Walters
> '84 Vanagon, 174k
> '89 Syncro, 176 k
> 11 year old Alex, future driver
>