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Re: Old Age

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Subject: Re: Old Age
From: "Richard Holden" <rholden@mail.scs.k12.tn.us>
Date: Tue, 06 Apr 1999 11:15:32 -0600
Jay,
Ididn't know that you were that old or have you just been rode hard and put
up wet.
--
Richard (Old Fartz #53) Holden--Red Datsun Z AP 77
Guilty of all symptoms Jay has mentioned except hangover, but add being
stove up from just driving an event much less working on the car.  Of
course, my beast (car) fights back when I try to make it go where I want it
to. I love the challenge. If replacement cam arrives in time, headed to
Texas to fight the beast yet again.
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>From: "Jay Mitchell" <jemitchell@compuserve.com>
>To: <autox@autox.team.net>
>Subject: Old Age
>Date: Tue, Apr 6, 1999, 9:50 AM
>

> You 30-something "old" folks have the following to look forward
> to:
>
> Having to take off your glasses to see what you're working on
> under the race car because, even though you're nearsighted,
> you're  rapidly becoming farsighted as well, then spending
> fifteen minutes looking for your f***ing glasses because you have
> CRS (Can't Remember Shit) and finally finding them because you
> stepped on them, then trying to put the lens you knocked out back
> in with your fingers covered with gearlube or brake fluid and
> then having to wipe them off with a shop rag so you can see well
> enough (barely) to wash your hands, which you've gotta do so you
> can get your glasses completely reassembled and clean again. So
> you can see to get the tool you forgot to bring with you in the
> first place and get back under the car....
>
> Being stove up for two days because you had to do a clutch job or
> a head gasket.
>
> Hearing your knees or your hips or your neck when you move. Or,
> better yet, having other people hear them.
>
> Getting a hangover from two (OK, maybe three ;<) beers. Having a
> hangover last more than a day.
>
> Having to put sunscreen on top of your head (and wearing a big
> hat, too) because there's not enough hair left up there to keep
> you from getting burned.
>
> Telling your kids not to do the stuff you used to love doing when
> you were their age.
>
> Jay "well, it's not that bad if you can laugh at it" Mitchell
>
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