From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V6 #257 Reply-To: loud-fans@smoe.org Sender: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk loud-fans-digest Monday, December 18 2006 Volume 06 : Number 257 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [loud-fans] In praise of SUVs.... [GlenSarvad@aol.com] Re: [loud-fans] In praise of SUVs.... (We 3 Kings) [CertronC90@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 08:29:29 EST From: GlenSarvad@aol.com Subject: [loud-fans] In praise of SUVs.... This caused the first warm feeling I've had toward a Hummer since...well, ever. Mark writes: - - --Mark, whose faith in mankind has been restored--tonight, a guy forced me off the road into a drainage ditch and I couldn't get out and within minutes three guys in three different vehicles appeared to help me out--one directed traffic, one got his towing straps and one used his Hummer to pull me out--it was beautiful, like a well executed military maneuver, and it was over from going into the ditch to pulled out and back on the road in less than fifteen minutes ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 15:21:25 EST From: CertronC90@aol.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] In praise of SUVs.... (We 3 Kings) In a message dated 12/17/2006 8:32:03 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, GlenSarvad@aol.com writes: This caused the first warm feeling I've had toward a Hummer since...well, ever. Greenville has a bad problem with booming neighborhood development on old secondary country roads that ran through farm land once upon a time, and that was the type of road I was on, and people fly on these roads, and I tried to back out of driveway and a Chevy Blazer was coming fast (a hilly curvy road with a blind spot until you got out of the driveway) and I knew I had to get the f*** out of the way or it would be bad, and I slapped it in first and darted out of the way, but to the edge to a drainage ditch, and then, when I tried to back up, I let out the clutch too fast and the car choked, the engine died, and I slid down the ditch, stuck. These guys were great. The guy in the Hummer (one of the kinder, gentler smaller ones--the big one would have probably been too big to do what this guy did on that narrow road) pulled over and offered his services, the guy in the Jeep Commander offered his towing straps and tied the straps around a secure part under my rear bumper and the guy in the Chrysler 300 sedan offered to let me use his car to drive to my delivery! "Commander guy" got mad at one motorist (a very busy road) who drove through Chrysler guy's traffic direction and told this "asshole" motorist that he could do something with Commander guys's family jewels that involved one's tongue, and this cracked me up. These three guys were amazing, and I thanked them all in the church parking lot next to the drainage ditch, and the Chrysler guy even hugged me (he hugged ME, not the other way around like you might think) after I told them that they had the true Christmas spirit for helping me like they did. I hope they come by the restaurant so I can buy 'em a pizza. - --Mark np (through osmosis--Mom's playing records again) Mantovani and his orchestra "Never On Sunday" theme ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V6 #257 *******************************