And the worst part of it is when you get out of the hospital and start
going through your mail, you'll find  that Marshal Field has billed your
credit card $250 for a cookie recipie (for which  you thought you'd only
paid $2.50) which you purchased to send along with a card to that boy
trying set the world record for receiving get well cards who (tragically)
had just suffered a recent setback because his hard disk (containing the
get well card database) was destroyed by a virus he got simply by reading
an e-mail from AOL entitled "Good Times".

I'll be dammed if it doesn't make you just want to strap a solid fuel
rocket (JATO) booster on the top of the ol' Syncro and drive into an
Arizona cliff at 300 mph (wonder if the pop-top would stay closed).

PaulU
(strictly in jest)

At 9:17 AM -0700 4/22/1997, jim ellis wrote:
>The vanagon list had a thread regarding driving lights.
>
>This reminded me that recenty I heard a related subject.
>
>*Welcome to the new world!* =(
>If you see any car driving without their lights on (at night) DO NOT blink
>your lights at them. Even though you might be thinking that you are doing a
>good deed in desire for saftey, you are, in fact, placing yourself in danger.
>
>There is at least a 50% chance possibility that you may find yourself the
>target of a gang initiation. It seems that some gangs initiate new
>"shooters" by trolling in traffic with their headlights intentionally left
>off. Their goal is to wait until some well intentioned citizen blinks their
>lights at them intending to add to the saftey factor. The good samaritian
>ends up in the crosshairs of the newbie shooter.
>
>I tend to think that I have a fairly decent "sidewalk diploma" in street
>smarts but this was a new one on me. If I can help keep you and your family
>NOS then all the better.
>Peace, (please)
>Ellis\
>
>BTW: No need to belabor this thread- just file it away for the future. This
>post is not intended to inflame any non VW socieconomic discussions. Please,
>let's take personal rants <if any> off line. =)