Breath mints... to help hide the fact that I stopped at the corner pub
before coming home.
Oh well,
Color me odd!
Trevor
Bud Osbourne wrote:
> Gloves, hats, wool sweaters, fleece-lined leather jacket, sunglasses, wife
> makes me keep sunblock in there (she's a bit smarter than I am - oh, hell,
> she's LIGHT YEARS ahead of me), aspirin, towels (for getting caught in the
> rain). But, breath mints? I never knew Spridgets gave you bad breath. Am
> I missing something here, guys?
> Bud Osbourne
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-spridgets@autox.team.net
> [mailto:owner-spridgets@autox.team.net]On Behalf Of
> trevorwj@insightbb.com
> Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2006 3:01 PM
> To: Spridgets@autox.team.net
> Cc: midgetsprite@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: A word from my dermatologist
>
>
> I keep the following in my midget year round:
> Gloves, earmuffs, hat, scarf, earplugs, sunblock, sunglasses, aspirn and
> breathmints.
>
> PLUS all the usual roadside emergency stuff.
>
> Trevor
>
>
>
>> On Monday, I laid in my dermatologists chair for three hours while he
>> removed successive layers of a Basal cell carcinoma from the left side
>> of my snotlocker. As his assistant went back and forth to the lab to
>> see if he had removed it all, we got to talking.
>>
>> When I told the skin doc I had owned my Sprite for over 45 years, he
>> exclaimed, "Ah, THAT is the reason." He explained that the continued
>> exposure to the sun while driving had probably led to the skin cancer.
>> "You really should have been using a sun block all these years. If you
>> had, you probably would not be here." I had to explain to him that for
>> most of those years, sun block as we know it today did not exist.
>> (Although I remember lifeguards smearing white stuff on there noses.)
>>
>> Anyway, he asked that I caution everyone driving a convertible,
>> expecially those of English and Northern European stock, to always wear
>> a good sun block or face the same consequences in the years to come.
>>
>> Message delivered.
>>
>> Buster Evans
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