HIGH-larious!!!

On Thursday, December 20, 2012, The Bus Depot wrote:

> > I looked into that when I was trying to come up with something for my
> van.
> > That awning seemed a bit lightweight for the kind of strong winds and
> storms I
> > usually see at festivals when I'm camping. I have NO personal experience
> with it,
> > so my impressions may be wrong; you are smart to seek the counsel of
> those
> who
> > have used them.
>
>
> Allow me to reprint my favorite online review of the Ezy-Awning, from a
> Samba thread... below ...  if for the comedic value alone. (Although I do
> take issue with the "hard to put up" comment. It's a very simple design,
> basically two horizontal poles held together by an X brace. It takes me
> less
> than 10 minutes to put mine up.)
>
> - Ron Salmon
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> You'll end up like me. You'll think it's a pain in the butt to put up and
> consider getting something else.
>
> But through six years of vicious hail storms, a collapse from heavy snow,
> another collapse from rain collecting on one side (and me not paying enough
> attention,) several instances of serious abuse from severe winds (Moab, Red
> Rocks, Spanish Peaks,) festival hippies falling into the poles, drunk
> campers tripping over the lines, near death by being too close to a
> campfire, missing parts, bent poles, shock springs unwound, and whatever
> else gets thrown at it,
>
> the damned thing won't die. It is possessed.
>
> It is the awning that NASA astronauts should take into outer space. Navy
> Seals should use it for protection. It should be a refuge of last resort
> for
> hurricanes. We should all crouch underneath one in case of nuclear
> armageddon. You could put it in a pen with a pissed-off gorilla
> Samsonite-style and the gorilla would die of a stress-induced coronary
> before the EZ Awning gave up. It's the awning they used in Kuwait to put
> the
> oil fires out during Desert Storm. It is the Chuck Norris, nay, the Keith
> Richards of awnings.
>
> The army which carries the EZ Awning before it is...invincible.
>
> I never have really liked it, but we are attached for life.
>
> It will probably be used to shade the mourner(s) at my funeral, then be
> buried with me. And I will still be bitching, from the grave, about what a
> hassle it is to put up.
>