In a message dated 6/20/99 8:03:06 AM Eastern Daylight Time, tzuchow@ibm.net
writes:
<< I agree with you that Big Healey people are tops! The Big Healey owners in
the Triad Austin-Healey Club in North Carolina are a really great bunch of
people. If there is any snobbishness there, I have yet to see a trace of it.
>>
I once went to France, a few years ago. I was warned by some who had been to
France before me how rude and insensitive the people in France are to
Americans. When I arrived in France, and for the few days we were there ,
mostly in Paris, out on our own, riding the subways, late at night in the
little cafes, early inthe morning in the pastry and coffee shops, I found not
rudeness or insensitivity. I found people friendly, willing to help, willing
to smile.
I have since come to believe that you get what you take with you. If we
visit a foreign country with the superiou attitude that "I am an AMERICAN!!!"
We will get in return an attitude that ,"Well I am a FRENCHMAN!!!!!" or "I
am and ITALIAN!!!!!" "Shove it!!!" And Kindness begets, in most
instances, kindness. I wonder if the same thing doesnt apply to the cars.
Send respect and you will receive respect. I enjoy and think of my Midget
(and will someday my Sprite) every bit as much as any 3000 owner. And I
respect their feelings about their vehicles just as much. I proudly, as I
remarked, pull right in amongst them as though I belong there. Then talk
with them fondly about both their cars AND my car.
My loose change!!
--David
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