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Subject:Re: Surprise Party
From:David Beierl
Date:Thu, 17 Mar 2011 18:32:40 -0400

At 05:58 PM 3/17/2011, george jannini wrote:
>secreting it inside the air conditioner plenum.  It being kind of warm
>this afternoon, I unwittingly jumped in and cranked the AC up to 11,
>whereupon a Charmin blizzard occurred.

Kekekeke....I bought a Camry for small money some years ago, turned
out it had sat in a barn for a year or two with the window
open.  Among other little oddities, a funny sort of mousy smell from
the ventilators that wasn't really noticeable at first but grew on
you.  About the third time I used the fan there was a thump and the
fan tried to tear itself apart - the nest turned out to be made of
amongst many other things the cotton, not the plastic sticks, from an
entire large box of Q-tips.  Never could get rid of the smell which I
gradually found more and more revolting.  The car was stolen from the
driveway, turns out 90-95 Camrys you can do it with a worn-out
key.  SP recovered the car that night but didn't tell the city, or
the city didn't tell me.  Two weeks later I get a whacking great bill
from the impound.  Went down, paid them half as much as I'd paid for
the car - and one o'clock the next morning heard a noise, went and
saw the taillights disappearing around the corner.  Got it back the
next day, treated not nearly so gently as the first kids had, and
decided it was a Sign from Above.  Which apparently I misinterpreted
because I turned it in for pennies on a '98 Accord with the
$lectronically $ontrolled $ransmission from $ell.  And I thought
Vanagons were expensive.

The Camry had the cushiest front seats I ever sat in though.  Every
time I sat down I felt as though I was doing something dirty.

Yrs,
d