I get comments and I do not often get the chance to respond directly to them. Being the lazy sort and not motivated to think up a whole new blog topic on my own I will respond to your many kind comments.
Recently I wrote about my recent engagement and the impact a new marriage will have on the fleet of cars in our soon to be combined families. My Lovely Intended who goes by the Nom De Internet of
little leadfoot writes:
Honey, I promise I will never tell you need an automotive upgrade, as
long as you promise you will smile and nod approvingly when I bring home my next impractical, zippy little sports car with manual transmission. Just be glad most of the kids have their own cars now.
I am glad that 75% of our progeny will be driving their own cars and the need to operate a family taxi service will be gone. Only the youngest one in curls will need to be driven on a regular basis and now maybe I can consider buying a fun and impractical car for a daily driver. But the practical side of me whispers that there will still be a need for some sort of hauler. Hmmmm, maybe I can justify getting that beater pick up truck I have always wanted?
I have also gotten some warm wishes from regular readers regarding my impending nuptials, Dave Darling writes:
Scott, you got yourself a winner there! Congratulations to the both of you.
Thank you Dave, I think so too. Not only is my Bride To Be sweet and loving, but also she has a need for automotive speed. One of the very first gifts I gave her was a day at the Jim Hall Cart Racing School in Oxnard, which she thoroughly enjoyed.
Resident Gadfly Buck writes:
Congratulations, Scott and Little Leadfoot!!!
I happen to agree that your Accord is boring. Well, you agree and accept that. I drive similar LA roads as you and do find that a little extra power can help at time and even be fun. Those rare occasions that I get to drive Mulholland (which will increase for a year as we move up there temporarily next year) make it worthwhile to have a fun car. Plus, the road (even freeways) do open up.
Little Leadfoot, good for you! But I do think that the G35 sedan is a little more practical with kids. (Yes, I think that is what I have settled on, finally.)
Scott, I look forward to getting a ride with you in your shiny new Mustang convertible!
The last comment is directed at my less than enthusiastic response to Buckā€™s love affair with the new Mustang convertible. I think I broke Buckā€™s heart when I told him that his attraction to the new Mustangā€™s is more of a physical relationship than one based upon love and respect.
I made a snide remark about young men who have a challenged social life, regular reader Bryce writes:
Young car geeks often have trouble getting dates. And since they spend much of their disposable income on cars, and car related magazines, they have no money to buy Jugs and thus the auto magazines have been kind enough to add some T&A to the mix.
I will be the first person to admit that my grammar, spelling and sentence construction is less than perfect and that I really could benefit from a copy editor to fix my obvious mistakes. Fortunately I have Dave Darling who found this error:
I think the word you wanted was "decimated", not "disseminated".
Decimate: To lay waste to, or ravage. Comes from the Roman practice of
killing one person out of every ten from a large group that had pissed them off.
Disseminate: To spread widely.
Thanks Dave, I fixed that error. This is what happiness when you rely upon Spell Check. And I am partially dyslexic. Plus the Dain Bramage I suffered as a child makes it hard to recognize obvious errors. And did I mention that I suffer from being educated in Public Schools. So you see it is not my fault.