From: "Gary F. York" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > As prosaic, really, as if you pony up $50,000 for a car expecting it to > serve you well for ten years and it begins to self-destruct at year two, > you may 'suddenly' realize the car was less valuable than you had > confidently anticipated. Bummer. Sure, nothing has really changed: the > seller got your fifty grand; you got their lousy car. You still feel a > 'loss' and you're still aggrieved even if you eventually decide you > should have exercised greater 'due diligence.'
Gods, I'd never pay that kind of money for anything I couldn't live in. A Greyhound Semicruiser comes to mind, if it's in cherry condition. The 1983 Olds 98 Regency (close to two tons of Detroit iron) I commute (not far) in cost $500 cash. I'm the second owner. Odometer says 22,000, but I'm not sure which pass through that was when the speedometer stopped working (original owner made regular runs between north Jersey and south Florida). 350 V-8, GM's second best engine (the 327 was better). La Esposa's Ford Escort cost only ten times as much, it was low mileage and had gotten more maintenance than it needed, owned literally by a little old lady who only drove it to Temple on Saturday, the aunt of the husband of the literary agent of one of La Esposa's oldest friends. That literary agent owns the most beautiful dog that ever licked my hands, half whatever breed of domestic dog I don't know and half prairie wolf, and got all of her looks from the coyote side. (Not half Afghan -- I can tell an afghan cross by smell, my first wife and cohusband had a trio of afghan crosses in the backyard when I moved in after my discharge -- you put three of those into a backyard in Las Vegas that hasn't established a lawn, a lawn will never establish -- I see afghan crosses in my nightmares, the _jaws_ on that monster). -- Ward Griffiths [EMAIL PROTECTED] "What I know [about the art of the sword] boils down to this: If you see a guy running at you with a sword, put two rounds in his chest to slow him down, then one into his brain to finish him off". Aaron Allston, _Sidhe Devil_ The two halves of the ruling Party are arguing over who gets to be the Top this time. Either wins, Top or Bottom, they both win by the situation. For us individuals, BOHICA.
