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yeah. Oh, me either. All the bugs and stuff But I, I try I hate to be on all that stuff But, but I try, you know, to, uh, to get out there and enjoy everything. Oh, yeah. But what was so fun though is that I had to take my son to the doctor this morning because he went out camping with some friends and he got poison iv...
I'm a sissy. Yeah. I either want to do it in the fall or spring. Right. Right. You know? Definitely when it's cool. Yes. Well, have you done much camping around Texas? Well, not really because usually it's when we go off, you know, like for a couple weeks or so. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. It's usually like that. Yeah. Well, have ...
Oh, it really is. Uh-huh. It really is. Uh-huh. Also I said we mostly did ours before we started a family. Right, right. It's a lot easier then. Well, I know my parents like to camp a lot, and they, uh, they've been going to Gulf Shores, Alabama. And, uh, which is really, really neat. Oh, uh-huh. They said they've got ...
uh-huh. I really do. Well, have you done much camping up in Kentucky and, and those parts, in the mountains? No, not really, not that much. Um, we've been, well, we've been to Wyoming, you know, and Kentucky and Montana and, you know, places like that. But usually if we're with a group of people we really don't stay an...
But we're, uh, we're getting more into it and we've done, uh, we've done quite a bit and, uh, uh, the kids like to go out, you know, as often as they can. Uh-huh. Um, so that's good. You know, they're, they're becoming enthusiasts then of camping. Uh-huh. It is. My children really enjoys it. They really do. But by the ...
Uh-huh. but we hadn't did that. Uh-huh, uh-huh. Yeah, well, that's really neat. Yes, Well, we all enjoy camping. And they're, you know, they're in like and scouts and stuff like that, you know, so, they get to go camping in those organizations also. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. At least their Daddy goes with them, I don't, when the...
Well, I, well, I have, um, a son that's, uh, going to be eleven here pretty soon, and then a daughter that's thirteen. Uh-huh. So, they're, they're getting old enough to where they can help out with a campfire and, cooking and, and all that kind of stuff too. Oh, yes. Yeah. Yes. So, that's, that's really neat. It reall...
and, uh, so they had to give him shots and everything, so. oh, well, maybe next time he'll stay away from those particular trees, or what, bushes, whatever they are Yeah, yes. Yes. Oh. But I have, uh, brother-in-law and a sister, you know, that just really just camp. You know, they love to go camping. Uh-huh. They coul...
Uh-huh. Uh, and, and I just couldn't do that, you know. Me, I haven't really as far as entertainment, I don't know what you would do every you know. Yeah, yeah. But I guess, my entertainment's, television, I guess Just getting away. Yeah, right, right, see, I see, they just want to get away. Uh-huh. But every Friday ni...
so. Uh-huh. But anyway that's their life Yes. But they probably live in a city also, don't they? Yeah, yeah, that's true. Well, see, we're in a real small county area, Uh-huh. and, you know, that makes a big difference. Now that's true. That's true. Because if we want to go camping we can just go just a few miles, you ...
Okay. and we'll probably be talking to you again. Okay, well, take care. okay, bye-bye. Bye-bye. So, do you have any credit cards? Yes, I do. I keep, uh, I have an American Express, and a Visa card that I keep, you know, kind of for emergency purposes, and I have, you know, I use a gasoline credit card which I, you kno...
credit cards run, what, anywhere from, up to eighteen, nineteen percent, I guess. Yeah. It's just a bad deal. Course, there are emergencies, you know, that you, you know, probably need to have a card. Yeah, I have one card. Uh-huh, that's, that's probably enough. And I try not to use it, but right now, it's maxed out A...
I don't have that, but I've got, you know, one of the the, the instant teller cards that you can use for point of sale purchases. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. And we use that usually to buy gasoline, and it's just it's really amazing how quickly that goes. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. I'm sure you're right. I don't, I don't, I don't participate...
It certainly does. God help those people who have to float checks occasionally because you won't be able to with that. Absolutely. That's right. Do you get any sort of discount when you use a card like that? No. I see. Oh, it was, well, they consider it to be the same as cash well, cause it actually is. I see, I see. I...
Right. Yeah. No, I, I understand it's becoming, you know, the popular thing to do. We're not participating in that particular program at the moment, and I don't really perceive doing it unless we absolutely have to. Uh-huh But, uh, I have in times past gotten into a bit of trouble with credit cards. It's just, you know...
But I'm kind of getting a little more leery of credit cards, you know, as time goes by. Unless you just absolutely have to. Now, there are times when you'd at least think you do, anyway. Yeah. Yeah. I, I want to still have just one just in case. Yeah. But, I'd sure want to get the, get it paid down and not use it for a...
Sure. Absolutely. Yeah. Oh, I've got another call. Oh, I'm sorry. Was nice talking to you. Okay. Take care. All right. Bye-bye. Bye-bye. All right. Well, um, we lived, I grew up in San Antonio, and I was used to the heat, and I was used to what couldn't grow down there, and we had a small, um, farm house out in Castrov...
and it's very, uh, nice sandy soil, rich soil, and the weather is perfect for growing just about anything you want to grow so we've been out here, well, really in the house since December, How fine. and we've been uh, planting flowers that we could never plant, in San Antonio because the heat would just dry them up aft...
And now with all the rain everything is just gorgeous, lush and green and beautiful, and I hope that it holds out here after the summer. Wow. But, uh, that has been the major change that we have noticed in gardening, and that's about the extent of what we've done, just a little bit on the patio, and waiting for the rai...
and it just seems so funny to me that, when I grew up in Missouri, and you didn't have to worry about growing grass there. It just happened automatically. So do you have to get a shade tolerant grass? Is that what you're, Yes. We are. We tried, we planted some fescue last, um, fall Uh-huh. and it's really, really prett...
the Saint Augustine and all that supposedly was back there just wasn't, like I say, there really wasn't even one blade of grass in the backyard. Uh-huh. And, um, so mostly, you know, we're not even to the point where we're getting into flowers, and flower beds or even gardens, that, we're just saying, let's get some gr...
It had held onto a small portion, but primarily once the weeds start in the back we were just, you know, resigned to, well, the only way we were going to fix this one is that if you plow it all under and put everything back on top of it again. Uh-huh. But, I don't know. That's the bad thing there, is, that we spent so ...
Uh-huh. And, um, Arlington area. Plano. Okay, Plano. Uh-huh. Uh-huh, up north And so there's a lot of market up here since it's kind of the area that people are moving into in the Dallas area and big market for, for yards, yard work. Uh-huh. Yeah, I imagine So, well everybody, it seems like everyone is so particular, e...
Uh-huh. Yes, they do. I noticed that they're really putting in small back yards, because they have these, most of the houses have the alleys that run behind, Uh-huh. and, so that really cuts into your backyard space, and. But we don't do our work here out of enjoyment so much as voice in right now, we're just, this is,...
They would just turn it on and the timer would run and it would water their lawn and they didn't have to worry about it at all. Um. And that was so nice. But, we didn't have that luxury, so we were dragging the sprinkler around everywhere. And so, I hope you can find, uh, I don't know what type of grass grows in the re...
but I don't remember what it is. But it's got like a boot, on the front of the book. Uh-huh. It's just a real fancy decorated boot. It's like TEXAS GARDENING. And it talks about, you know, different problems that your lawn can have and how to recognize it and it goes into the full gamut of gardening. You know, everythi...
in the summer, that's great. Well, that's what we're looking forward to, and that's what they say the payoff is but, It makes the biggest difference, when you have the big old trees. Well, we And the people that moved in next to us, they built a new house on the empty lot and they just had their brand new little trees....
I don't. You don't? No, huh-uh. So, it's not a very valid topic. No, it's not. Do you have children? Uh, yes. Uh-huh. One. One. Stepdaughter. Uh-huh. Ten. Ten. And, uh, you know how they are at that age, I guess. you having been ten once, yourself. Yeah. Once upon a time I was. Well, I have two dogs,
those are my kids. Oh, we have one. What kind is it? A Keeshonden. Oh, really. Yeah, Uh-huh . fuzzy little thing. A what? A fuzzy little dog. Yeah, yeah, they're cute. Rather, rather odd personality, he, he's fun. Uh-huh. Anyway, uh, time we spend with our children. Uh-huh. It seems almost as though children hate it. D...
Yes. Time spent with Mom and Dad is, uh, next, is probably one of the worst punishments spent on earth to them. Yeah, especially when they get like into the teenage stage. Yeah. I guess. Yeah, I remember when I was that age. They, you know, parents are a curse that they just have to live with. Uh-huh. So, it, it's inte...
Uh-huh, uh-huh. You're working then? Yeah. With every passing day we wonder if we will be. That's what I heard. like running I've always thought about maybe transferring up there, and I thought if I do that, I might not have a job so It's, it's better to be employed. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Especially these days where there is...
Yes. You all don't have any other children around there? No, no. I don't have any, children. Uh-huh. So, how does she feel about going out and doing stuff with you all. Uh, well it varies what it is, of course, but usually, Mom and Dad are a curse. Uh-huh, uh-huh. You know, they, they'd much rather be with friends, Oh,...
Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. And we'd have, um, great times, Oh, yeah. and it seems that well now the bank's not available. Yeah. Um. Uh-huh. And, entirely too much time is spent, my wife and I were wondering what if, and, and what if's always rough. Oh, yeah. Yeah. But, you know, we do have our trips and we do have our fun...
My husband will say that he'd like to have a little boy to take hunting and fishing and I said, well, you can take a little girl hunting and fishing just as easily. Uh, but they don't like it. That's probably right. There, there, there is a difference there. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. And, and ... No, if my Dad had done that when...
Uh-huh. I imagine. Fathers don't even like malls, they despise shopping. Uh. So, is that quality time? Huh, no, I think not. Yeah, if, but there is camping and we both enjoy that. Uh-huh, she likes to do that? Somewhat, yeah, yeah . Yeah , yeah. Well, that's good.
Getting up in the mountains and getting away from it all and, that's somewhat fun. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. She ... It's , Huh? so what do you think about child rearing? Is, how, how would you spend time with kids? Probably doing outdoorsie stuff, and keeping, trying to keep them away from the T V, I guess And, McDonald's Oh, y...
You know, a lot of times, whenever we head out of town on a trip or something, it's real easy to swing in there for breakfast. Uh-huh. Yeah. Breakfast and run. Yeah. And breakfast is a kind of a funny meal anyway, Yeah. It is. and, uh, kids eat funny. This lady in our bass club, we had a tournament yesterday and she wa...
Go on a diet or they, they have a, well, to some extent the public schools, or the schools in general, influence them, the eating meat kick. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Yeah. You know, like it's really morally wrong to eat meat or something, I, I'm not sure. Uh-huh. Of course, that's not the way I was raised, being raised in West ...
yeah. Every person out there should have kids, at least once or, or have some they can borrow for a time, because everyone needs some torture in their lives. That's the kind I like. My Mother used to put that curse on my sister. I hope you have kids just like yourself. And, my Grandmother must have put that on my Dad b...
I don't know how people can afford kids. I mean ... You know , we were talking about how much it cost to go to Disney Land. Uh-huh. Golly! A couple, three hundred dollars. Oh, yeah. You know, for just, for just a day, not you know, a day or two, not including lodging and food and all that. Uh-huh, uh-huh. It's, I don't...
That is awful high. Oh, well ... Twenty bucks a whack now. Yeah, or twenty-one. But, at least once you pay your way in there, at Six Flags ... Yeah, yeah . yeah, everything's free except for the food. Yeah, yeah, food and junk to carry out. So that's, that's not as bad. Yeah. Yeah. But, golly! You know, Disney World o...
Really. Or you'd have to pay air fare, Uh-huh. and, ooh, for a family, you know, for a family it gets pretty expensive pretty quick. OH, yeah. Rent a car when you get there and all that. Yeah. That's why I lucked out, my Dad worked for Braniff when I was a kid so we got, you know, our air fare free and we got ... Why d...
and when I went to college I think everything in my closet, I had made. But I haven't sewed since then and that's been fifteen years. So, uh, you know, I didn't have access to a machine the whole time I was in college. Oh. And, uh, my sister sewed and she needed the money so I would pay her and she'd make my clothes Oh...
Uh, now it's a little more expensive to make it, because, you know, you start paying the price for the patterns and the material, Yeah. but it's still such better quality that I think it's worth it. It certainly is, and the patterns have gone up tremendously, too, the prices for them, you used to could get, you know, a...
I, I do have two daughters that, you know, out, they're, they're grown now though. I wish that I had started sewing, you know, when they were younger. Uh-huh. And, uh, it would have helped me out tremendously But, um, oh, I guess, I, I just, you know, I always, I have always tried to sew and, uh, I didn't like the way ...
Well do you do anything do you knit or crochet like for sweaters or anything like that? No, I'm not that talented. see, I'm I've not ever been a real craft type person. I have a sister-in-law that, I mean, if it can be done with your hands, she does it. She makes things for the kids for Christmas and nephews and nieces...
Oh. and I started crocheting a king size bedspread for a guy that I was dating at the time. Uh-huh. And when we broke things off, actually we were supposed to get married when I got out of college. So when we broke things off, I quit crocheting it and I've never picked up a needle since then, in fact, I think it's stil...
but Bev, I think you'll be so bored, because, you know, all you've ever done is work. And I said, but there's so many things I want to do, I'd like to start sewing again, I'd like to learn how to do this cross stitch and these, you know, knit these things and I think that would be fascinating. He kind of laughs Are you...
Well that takes all the work out of it. Right. And, uh, it, it really makes it look professional. Well, how neat. Especially, on, you know, I mean from the inside, you know how you look under, under something that you've made and it doesn't really, Uh-huh. But, uh, the Serger really makes it look professional. Well tha...
Otherwise, they hold it over your head forever, right Right. Now I bought you that machine Well that sounds really good. Yeah. Do you paint or anything like that? No. Never. No, I, I play the piano. Oh, so do I. Oh, you do. well I have one here, it's the one that I grew up with, Uh-huh. and my folks gave it to me, and,...
but I haven't touched one like since college, so I kind of am picking it all out again and trying to remember how to do it again. And of course, my kids jump in the middle of it and want to pound on it and I'd love to teach them to play, too. Yeah. So, I'm not great, but I remember it. Uh-huh, well I'm not that great e...
and I, I don't, I say I don't have the time, that's not true. Uh-huh. By the time I put my kids in bed at night, I don't want to do anything. Yeah. I, you know, I've worked all day and I come home and I do that, I, and, you know, even hobbies and crafts and sewing things like that, I, I think gee, I could do this or th...
I could do that all day long and I, I can remember once in high school, I wanted some extra money, Yeah. and my mom wanted some pants, so she laid out the material and I cut it and sewed it and she paid me I think like two dollars a pair to make her some pants. Yeah. But I, I hate laying out material and trying to get ...
I really like to do that, but the, the cutting and the, all the, even the cutting I don't like. Well what are some of the other features on this machine? It sounds wonderful. Well that's about it really. It's, it has four, uh, four threads instead of, the, the regular basic two threads. Oh, okay. And, uh, it, Is that f...
You can do a lot with the Serger though. You can make, uh, piping and cording and, uh, you can use all kinds of different, uh, textures of thread. So it has the ability to do just about any type of sewing you want to do. Well, yes, but you, you have to use it in combination with a sewing machine. You can't throw your s...
You know, you can't do top stitching, or, um, there's, there's a few things that you just can't do with it. It will also do a rolled edge, um, Uh-huh. Gee, it's just so versatile, I uh. Well I'm going to have to go check it out. That's just something I hadn't heard of but it, So, uh, what do you think? I think we're ov...
No, no state income tax. Oh, that's great, because they don't have it in Florida. In New York they have it. Uh-huh. I mean, you know, like I say, I'm in New York and we have a state tax as well. So that just cuts even more. Yeah, I think what needs to be done is they need to control their spending habits. Right, I, I t...
what winds up happening is, for instance having kids, you know, they wind up having kids as a deduction and after, but the deduction is so little for kids that they wind up having to pay more in taxes than it costs to raise a kid for the year or something. Uh-huh. I think so they want to, you know try I think they're t...
Yeah. You know, but I'm not convinced, that's, that Social Security is doing as well as it should and, you know, and, and, and, uh, and, and that, you know, those people who need it for welfare and so forth, who really need it for welfare, not the eighty-five to ninety percent of them who don't need it. But I mean the ...
Yeah. To see if we could sort of clean them up and you know, but I don't know if we can do that or not. A lot of people have become too complacent and believe everything is just the norm as to the way things are going and feel absolutely helpless to oppose a lot of the situations going on, in the taxing system. Uh-huh...
Yeah. See, we, we're, we have no say so as to where the money goes in the first place. Right. We don't, I mean, the only say so we have is supposedly by electing people who we think are going to vote one way of another. Right and they are controlled, or pretty much do what they want to do. Right, I've never quite under...
Uh-huh. So it becomes, uh, a general battle of the sort of the election of the lesser of two evils, I think, so. Yeah. I don't know, I just, uh, I'm unhappy with it but. And well, I'm, I'm sort of semifortunate right now, I'm a graduate student, so I don't make that much, Uh-huh. and what I make isn't taxed very highly...
she, no, my, my wife does. Oh. My I no graduate students don't get bonuses. Uh-huh. We're lucky to get paychecks the way I figure. So you're taxed on the bonuses too, right. My, my wife is taxed on her bonus as well, and that's a, that's usually a big chunk of her bonus check actually. Uh-huh. I mean her bonus isn't th...
Uh-huh. So, she works with in, in, in sales. So a good portion of her, you know, her salary is, is quarterly bonuses. Uh, sales is lucrative but then you're paying really high taxes when you're doing a lucrative job. Yes, well, yeah, she's not entirely sales, so it isn't, it isn't as lucrative as one would hope, but, i...
I I, I, I do agree with you, most, most wholeheartedly. Well that's great. It's been a pleasure talking with you. You too, and, uh, Thanks for call. have a good day. You too. Bye-bye. Okay he did really decide to go? Uh-huh, sure I'm familiar with it, and it was a very difficult choice And he, well, he must know, is he...
aren't they? Is he excited? Very excited, Wow, I can, I, Uh-huh while they're east coast, I mean, I don't know anything about their football, but there you go. Well, they're, they're, they're really very strong academic rather than, you know, big sports, Yeah, that's, where, where you at? We're outside of, uh, Washingt...
I don't, I have a husband We don't have any kids yet. Okay, um, About all I can say is I guess about picking schools, um, I guess, uh, if you don't know what you're going to do, liberal arts program is a good idea. Well, I, I, one of the, the advices we've given our children is that you can always learn a job This is t...
Yeah, but they, you know, if they learn the job and they can go into graduate school usually a company, it will, if it's worth it's weight, will subsidize, That's exactly right. That's right. And, So the advice we gave to them was, number one, visit the colleges that you're thinking about describe first of all, the siz...
So he wouldn't have gone to something like where we're at, they'd, in Austin, Texas, University of Texas, That's right, that's the University of Texas at Austin, or Stanford or something like that so he didn't even consider those. Right. Texas yeah, Okay, well that's, I think the other thing is, too, um, I know I went ...
Yeah, University of Penn, I'm originally from Pennsylvania. University of Pennsylvania, It's got about nine thousand undergraduate. Yeah, that's strong, I mean that's you know Yeah, Yeah. and it's, it's, well, it's a little bit, I don't want to use the word wilder, that's not the word I want. Um, more diverse Yes, and ...
Right. um, and it's a total of two thousand. Well that's not bad. Yeah, so he knew the feeling because my other son is at Amherst which is fifteen hundred Which is a lot, Yeah. and he had visited his brother at Amherst and knew that he liked the environment Uh-huh. Uh-huh. but he did go on college visits, and he liked,...
Yeah, that is too much, and I mean, I, um, I can only say it's strange your son picked those kinds of college because I spent a year at Bennington in Vermont, Oh, it's, so you, Um, and that was, this was twenty years ago Uh-huh. Showing my age, And did you ever eat at the Blue Bin Diner? Yes. Oh my God, where are you f...
and he, he met the students at both schools and he liked them. Well you know, um, my husband's an engineer and a strong , a strong liberal arts background with, uh, a graduate degree in a technical field will get him much further than say like a, a strong, um, business administration degree than with another M B A on t...
No he didn't apply to any school further, the furthest away was Bowdoin, in Maine which is about twelve hours. That's still pretty far though. I mean a lot of kids just don't even want to go, Yeah, that was the furthest and then Kenyon in Ohio which was about six and a half hours and Williams is about seven. Oh, that's...
and, and he came down and one of the things that he said is, he went to Pennsylvania this weekend and he had an absolutely marvelous time Uh-huh. he had a great time but then he said, you know, it was such a good time that I almost got the feeling that their emphasis is on having fun. That could very well be and, So he...
and their attitudes was just, um, beyond my, um, in terms of drugs, et cetera, which I thought was shocking. Yeah, yeah. Of course, that period too was probably difficult. Right, yeah, you're right but then I went, But I did, uh, my advice to him, and my was that, uh, he had to really decide what he wanted out of coll...
And a swim coach is going to be right on top of you, uh, so that, and he will know the professors in a small, Well I don't know how to put this either in this way and then it doesn't sound like your sons would need this but I just think the other thing is with the way a lot of the youth is today, I think the refinement...
Oh. and even though they may break it up into smaller groups Penn is known for having graduate assistance teaching. They have video lectures. Yeah. Video lectures. They have graduate assistants to teach the smaller groups. This is true, and I mean that is very ironic too that your son just made the, did he just make t...
Yeah, yeah. that's exactly, yeah. Now is your other, I mean we're talking about what you think, but obviously you're experiencing it. Uh, Did your other son, um, My other son is just as happy as a bed bug. A clam. He, the moment he knew, he, he decided early on that Amherst was the school. He's a classical guitarist Oh...
Well, he's really, my older boy's real happy, and he's minoring in English, and he had thought about economics, and he took a couple of courses in economics and decided that wasn't, or is this early admissions? He's, um, he's going to be a junior. He'll be, he's finishing his sophomore year so he's double majoring. So ...
No, and I agree, I mean, my husband and I, in fact, I'm taking my L S A T um, I'm thirty something and taking my L S A T on June tenth. Oh, good, that's wonderful. Oh, that's great. The point being, and your sons will learn this from you, I'm sure, that, uh, no matter what age you are, you can learn That's right, that'...
Uh-huh. Uh-huh. And I, I thought that was the best experience in that we had more one-on-one since we seemed to know everyone on campus, Huh. and we had a broad spectrum of languages and cultures and backgrounds, and so forth, Huh. so, I thought it was wonderful to be a bigger fish and not so much a number, Uh-huh. um...
I don't know, I'm thinking in a sense of, uh, just being exposed to more. It just seems like in a larger college you, I don't know, your exposed to so many more people from all over the world, and I'm sure a lot of people come to, you know, small colleges also but just that they're more of, of the different cultures th...
I have my friends, Uh-huh and I'm really not as, as concerned about the entire city, so when you go to a big, a big university, you're not as concerned about the entire university, but your group of friends, your classes, your interests, your clubs and things like that. Yeah. I think that's probably keyed to me is not...
That's right, that's right. Uh-huh, exactly. That's, that's one important thing that I think about school. I'm, I'm not a kind a person that, I didn't, I, I was kind of a B student, I guess you'd say, and I didn't really, I was I strived to be an A student but it wasn't like a real priority. Right. To my, my priority w...
Yeah. You may have gone to school with them but you wouldn't, you wouldn't know them. Uh, I guess, let me think of another important thing to look at when you look into college, um, I guess, I guess now I've been out for, I, I'm older than you. I've been out for twenty-one years. Uh-huh. And I was looking at an annual ...
Uh-huh. you know, we weren't all out to be teachers or, or whatever so we didn't have the same classes, but we had a common thread, something that still ties us together, twenty odd years later. Right. Wow. That's great. And it's, it's, it's kind of neat just knowing that those kinds of things, those are what I carry...
okay, let me, let me go back to my, my sister now is in college, and my father was really interested in getting her in a school that would look good on her, on her, uh, diploma, etcetera, and so forth, Uh-huh. Uh-huh. and, and I kept pushing her towards just kind of U T or a larger school, and it was just a big confl...
Yeah. I think it helps, a, now my grandfather was going to pay if I went to, uh, what's now U T Arlington, because it was there in my hometown, Uh-huh. I could live at home. Right. But I chose to go to another school and even though he was pleased that it was a church related school, he was not willing to pay any at a...
I'm, I'm dealing with the loans right now, Sounds familiar, huh? Your, it's very fresh in your memory. very, every, every month I, That memory just seeps back in my mailbox. Yeah, well, sorry about that Tanya Oh, well, I guess I'll get over it. I'm sure it was worth it though. Oh, yeah, yeah. Okay. If, if nothing else ...
and the, you, you made the right choice in going to a school that met all of your needs to make, to give you the, the potential to do whatever you wanted. Right, because when you, when you do want, when you do finally graduate that, that's what you need the most. I'm finding out now that what I'm needing the most now i...
I, we just bought, uh, a seventy-three Mercedes that we have restored Oh, that's great. I'm, I'm a hobbyist too, and it, I like to work on cars too. Yeah, it has really been a lot of fun. Uh, we found some guys that actually, you know, worked for a Mercedes dealership and, uh, they also repair them for other the people...
a restored, vehicle is, is great, I think, certainly if it's an old Mercedes will be good. yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, right, we, the one thing that, uh, we did decide as, it's, it's, we wanted it to be as authentic as possible but we did break down and put a C D player in it, Well, that's great. that's not quite aut...
but, like I said, we were just lucky to find these guys that do it, you know, Oh, okay. they're, they just weren't really expensive, Oh, that is good, acknowledgeable people. and, uh, yeah, you know, right, and they work on it, so, the things that can be done here they just come here to our home and, and work on it or ...
I'm, uh, I'm, uh, a Chevy, I'm an American car person, You're an American car person. but I do like Mercedes. Yeah, yeah, I, I have always had an American, American car and, uh, I had a real, real bad experience with the Cougar that I had, it was an eighty-two Cougar, Yeah. and, uh, I don't know, I think it just soured...
I went to the auto show with my daughter recently, down in Dallas Uh-huh. and, I, to me the American cars are far superior to the Japanese in styling, engines, right now, I mean, Uh-huh. Really. Yeah, right, I'm not saying that they were, a couple of years ago. yeah. Yeah. I would that that there's, I see a marked impr...
Uh-huh, uh-huh. but I wouldn't, buy a new one Yeah. and, you know, of course, if I had the money I'd be happy to by a new one, Yeah, yeah. but, uh, I do look for a one year old vehicle, with twenty some odd miles or whatever twenty thousand miles, whatever. Uh-huh. Yeah, twenty thousand, yeah, yeah. Well, that's what m...
yeah, and she, it final just wore out they had, they had purchased it, I don't, can't remember how many years they had that car, but she loved the styling of it. That she may want to save, if she, she doesn't have it anymore. No, she sold it and she, That, since they don't make them anymore, she, that could be turned i...
right, yeah. Yeah, I think he had an ulterior motive he could just see, you know, dollar signs starting to flip by as far as repairs went but, uh, they, they really are nice cars, there, there, I'm still a full size person, Yeah. and I like a full size Cadillac, I, I want one of those, I think they are, I don't know, a...
Right. they had, they've scaled everything down so much and, uh, I have, I don't, I've never owned a really large car, I don't know, I think that Cougar was the biggest thing I ever had and, Well, even the Japanese cars are bigger too but, uh, Yeah, I've never had a now the Lexus are very nice looking cars, you know. I...