Jeepers, no. Our car would have been something along the lines of a ten
year-old Ford or Chevy. My dad was just a middle-level kinda drone
working for a title company. He and Mom probably bought that cooler from
a friend, or from Sears after much discussion and calculating of the
household budget on a big heavy electromechnical ten key calculator
borrowed from the office.

Trust me -- my strangeness is earned, not because my parents were rich.
--

Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
74 Utility Trailer. Ladybug Trailer, Inc., San Juan Capistrano
KG6RCR

On 7/5/2007 2:46 PM pete wrote:

> Rocket J said
>
> "bomb-shaped evaporative cooler mounted above Mom's door".
>
> I knew there was something strange about you Mike - you were one of those rich kids. I only saw those tube coolers on Cads and Packards going cross country circa 1950.
>