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lot of bikes out yesterday here in northern New England, sunny temps up to 50s, back to cool damp & 30s today

One evening, my grandmother was called into work at Wright Patterson AirForce base. She gave my brother $10 for us to go eat dinner at the Melodee Diner in her little town in Ohio. It had one stop light.
I was about 10.
I had the shrimp dinner.
A few hours later my grandmother loaded me into the back seat of her Pontiac and rushed me to Wright Patt....where the flight surgeon pumped my stomach. Of course that was hours too late. I didn't die - just wished I was going to.

Oh, she had a few words with that diner! (I think. She made us wait in the car.)

Stig

one of the reasons I like where I live in NH, fresh seafood, several friends that fish for a living, mostly lobster. Fish market in town, owner drives down to Gloucester, MA every morning 4am to pick up yesterday's catch, never know what kind of fish he will have in the market today, but he tries to always have lobster, scallops and some kind of white fish, cod, haddock, pollock, sometimes shark or tuna. Yesterdays fish taste great today, but tomorrow might not

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a few years ago, my GF bought a cheap no name scooter, she rode it back and forth to her job 2 miles away, for 2 months, then one day she came walking pushing the scooter, had no idea what was wrong, never thought of putting gas in it

Fastback,  feature races were short, 25 laps on a quarter to half mile track depending on venue, + a 10 lap heat race and practice laps. Engines didn't have to last a hundred miles max. It was my brothers belief that an engine runs best just before it blows up. He would rebuild the engine for every race, with used pistons, and his engines smoked a bit to, enough that other drivers stayed clear, strategy worked, track champion at local track, won over half the races. We also crossed the border to race at St. Pie Quebec, 1.3 mile road course & 1/4 mile oval. When we raced the road course, we had to change an engine on a pit stop, still came in top 5

My longest owned car was 20 years with a MkII Ford Cortina (UK spec 1600cc) which, at 125,000 miles I sold on to a friend who owned it for a further 5 years and 90,000+ miles!  That car took me all around Europe in the early 70's when I was getting over the loss of my mother.  (I used the money she left me to fund the trip.)

my older brother raced NASCAR MiniStock, while he had a VW Type 3, and most of the competitors in the series drove VW Beetles, there was one guy that drove an imported Ford Cortina, he was competitive enough to place in top 5, but never won. Only Cortina I have ever seen.

Longest ownership for me is my Silverado at 7 years, I bought it just before I retired with 195k already on it. With retirement, my annual milage has dropped from about 40,000/yr to 4,000/yr

my Silverado has to go in for a couple stoopid things on my part. wiper on the passenger side is stripped cause I turned the wipers on before I unstuck it from the windshield after an ice storm, I also pulled the door handle off  with a hard tug thinking the door was frozen, and I never lock my doors but this time I did. getting in now is pulling one of the rods that stick out the hole where the door handle was. Been driving mt Tacoma when it rains

I don't even own a flip  phone, my phone is connected to a copper wire,

and have to take my AK550 to the dealer to set the time. noodoe is a feature that I don't use