Rich,
Best laugh I've had all week.
Thanks,
Larry Miller
http://www.ado13.com
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a beer and an airline - it helps if you have
some kind of a football team, or some
nuclear weapons, but at the very least you
need a beer.-Frank Zappa
----- Original Message -----
From: William M. Gilroy <wmgilroy@lucent.com>
To: midgets <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, September 10, 1999 9:46 AM
Subject: Lessons learned
> Here are some lessons learned while working on my 77 Midget. These
lessons
> would apply to all cars not just LBCs.
>
> I work on my car in a single car garage and it is a tight fit. Not much
> room for the car and other stuff. I was storing about 10 2x4's for
another
> project.
> Lesson 1. always lay lumber along the floor, do not stand it on end.
>
> The main reason is that you just might knock it over. I did not knock the
> 2x4 over, but that leads us to lesson 2.
>
> Lesson 2. Be real careful when you work on the car and the dog is
> in the garage.
>
> So I guess you see where this is going but it gets worse. I am under the
> Midget with just my knees and shins sticking out the side. My Shar-Pei
> is sniffing around the garage more than usual.
>
> Lesson 3. When something is different pay attention. This goes for
> cars, dogs and kids.
>
> Anyway wonder-dog smells a shrew (I don't get mice only shrews) and being
the
> champion mouser that he is I decides to find that sucker. After a couple
of
> seconds of high speed sniffing he smells the shrew (now known as the
victim)
> behind the stack of 2x4s. Once wonder-dog latches onto a smell nothing
can
> stop him. He plows his face though the stack of 2x4s to find the shrew.
He
> ate that sucker in one chomp. Meanwhile our clueless hero (that's me) is
still
> under the car with just my knees and shins sticking out. Now the 2x4s
start
> to come crashing down onto my knees and shins. The pain of 2x4s crashing
> onto my shins let me taught me lesson 4.
>
> Lesson 4. Never, ever sit up quickly while under a car.
>
> So I tried to sit up. Not only did I bash my face but I gave myself a
bloody
> nose. Of course I got hit by all of the 2x4s except one. That one hit
the
> mirror on the car. Now said mirror just wobbles about.
>
> At this point wonder-dog is still looking for shrews and believes that he
has
> found another one across the garage. The dog just ignored my screams and
> curses. So after I clean up my face, the wood and banish the dog to to
the
> backyard I decide I should set out a couple of mouse traps teaching me my
last
> lesson.
>
> Lesson 5. Never leave a trap around that you cannot check for several
> days.
>
> I baited a trap and did not catch anything for a week. I then go away for
5
> days forgetting all about the trap. When I got home and went into the
garage
> the next day I knew that I had some thing in the trap. My nose told me
so. It
> is amazing how disgusting a dead shrew can get in just 5 hot days.
>
> So I learned a lot from this, but almost nothing about cars. And the dog
thinks
> he is a hero for killing the invading shrew. And my wife told me, "Any
idiot
> would know not to stack lumber on its end. Duh." Lessons learned.
>
>
> --
> Bill Gilroy
> 77 Midget
> 90 Shar-Pei
>
> E-mail: wmgilroy@lucent.com
> Telephone: 732-957-4775
> Fax: 732-957-4775
>
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