I'm just getting back to work and reading the stack of email and liked
hearing about the birthday card. Hallmark also makes a similiar card. The
bar code # is70000 10085 02051 with another # below the price - TTM 205-1.
The cover is of a right front fender of a faded blue AD with 2 pair of legs
dressed in faded jeans and sneakers dangling from it. The caption reads "Old
jeans, old sneakers, old friends-" . Inside the caption finishes with " The
good stuff just gets better with time". My wife gave me this card for my
last birthday and it remains in a permanent position on my desk here at
work.
Tim '50 Chev 1/2t
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Reul [SMTP:rreul@cin.net]
> Sent: Sunday, August 20, 2000 7:19 AM
> To: Durwood B. Darbin; oletrucks@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: [oletrucks] AD birthday card
>
> Hey Durwood, great tale, but you know I think we are married to sisters.
> Rich Reul
> 1951 3604
> Dixon, IL
> rreul@cin.net
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Durwood B. Darbin" <dhckdkcsk@hotmail.com>
> To: <oletrucks@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Saturday, August 19, 2000 2:03 AM
> Subject: [oletrucks] AD birthday card
>
>
> > Well it was one day to SHIMBOs birthday and I decided that the prudent
> thing
> > to do was to get her a birthday card. I whipped into the nearest Target
> > store and soon I was in business. I got her one about cats puking on
> the
> > rug and peeing on the bed etc. cuz she has a herd of those critters in
> the
> > house. Real romantic eh? (BTW she really liked the card.)
> >
> > Anyhow as I was perusing the racks I spotted a card that seemed to have
> an
> > AD front end with a chrome grill. Sure enough that's what it was! The
> AD
> > was kinda distressed being light blue and red and purple and a dent in
> the
> > fender and a rusty scraped bumper sans splash apron. The grill was
> dented
> > and beat up. The verbiage was 'classic, stylish, experienced, timeless,
> > spunky ...' and the inside said 'OLD happy birthday. SHIMBO is old but
> not
> > quite as old as the AD but awfully damn close for sure. The card was
> made
> > by 'RECYCLED Paper Greetings' with a bar code of 42823-46195 8 01296.
> If
> > the AD was white I would have thought that they took a picture of my
> truck.
> > I'm here to tell you that that card will get you misty eyed if you look
> at
> > it for very long. I was really misty and bought the card. I was gonna
> give
> > it to her for her birthday but decided to go with the cat thing cuz she
> > isn't really that thrilled with my Pcup. Really deep down I know that
> she
> > actually loves it but knows that if she lets any of those feelings out
> then
> > I would have the green light to do a total restoration and never be
> around
> > the house and will not have any money for sushi and flowers (they only
> die
> > anyway). Oh Well!!
> >
> > I should have told this story when it happened but I didn't so I will
> tell
> > it now. A few weeks before Christmas SHIMBO decreed that I was to
> accompany
> > her to town to procure a dead evergreen so that the kids could put
> lights
> > and stuff on it and the cats could do their damndest to knock it down.
> To
> > that I decreed that ifin I was abuyin, Weuns was agoin' in the Pcup.
> SHIMBO
> > protested mumbling something about 'The White Elephant' but relented cuz
> I
> > was abuyin. HEHE. Off we went and I could tell that she wasn't really
> > impressed with the road view through the almost nonexistent cab floor.
> We
> > arrived at the tree place and found the 'perfect tree'. Yeah right,
> perfect
> > to the tune of 50 bucks (grrrrr). SHIMBO dispatched the tree boy to
> place
> > the tree in the back of 'That White Elephant'. He lingered until I got
> in
> > the truck and asked if I knew where he could get a truck like mine.
> Then
> > the Kicker was, "yours is SOO COOOL!" I was smiling from ear to ear and
> > SHIMBO was frowning. She was depressed and decreed that I was to take
> her
> > to the local bagel place and buy her a bagel sandwich. I obeyed and
> > wouldn't you know it the only place open to park was right in front of
> the
> > bagel store. We entered and were soon enjoying the trendy bagel
> sandwiches
> > at the bar by the front window which happened to be right in front of
> the
> > Pcup. The waitress came by and asked if we knew who owned 'that truck'.
> I
> > fessed up and she then stated, "It's totally awesome". SHIMBO was in a
> > flaming downward spiral but I was on top of the world. She decreed that
> we
> > should head for the barn via the local King Soopers. After mass
> quantities
> > of nourishing material were purchased, I was placing the purchase in the
> bed
> > of the Pcup when a car stopped in the parking lot. One of the occupants
> > therein pointed and stated in a loud voice, "THAT'S what you can get me
> for
> > Christmas! I wonder how many of those Santa has at the North Pole?"
> SHIMBO
> > was down for the count. I saw that she needed to be cheered up and I
> did
> my
> > part by not complaining about the felines for almost one whole day.
> Hey,
> > that's the least that I could do, Right? Time marches on.
> >
> > The struggle continues,
> > Durwood
> > 51 1/2 ton 5 window
> >
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