[sdiy] Death of DIY?

[Bob Weigel]

Hehe.  I have a friend in NJ who lent me his car while I was there.  I 
came back with a bunch of stories from that trip, including checking out 
a YMCA over the boarder in CT to see if rumor was true that there was a 
hostile after taking a girl home from a concert in Oakland, NJ.....I 
guess I was a little late and a pimp looking guy pulled up in a pimp 
looking car as I was walking back to my car and started talking jive and 
was offering me a place to stay......I seldom turn down an invitation 
but...ahem..something didn't feel quite right and I had to be up at 7 am 
to pick up the girl to run around NYC with the next day and decided to 
find a motel in Stamford, CT. 
     Man they have crazy drivers there..or had in the late 80's anyway. 
My uncle being one of the premier thereof.  He misses his exit and slams 
on the brakes....a guy in a caddy is sliding sideways out of control 
behind us I see and I'm saying "It's ok Lee...let's just keep going and 
we'll catch the next one".   He got his foot back on the gas and the guy 
avoided piling into us.  He drove for the transit district.  Must be a 
fun bus ride. 
       Isn't this the kind of stuff that really inspires great synth 
music though?  I hadn't heard that NJ went to non-self serve gas 
though.  I don't believe they had that back then.  However if inspector 
clousseu had come up and asked "Excuse me...do you know the way to the 
towne pimp"....hehe...I'd have been able to point the way.  however I 
didn't ask if he was self-service or not...  (For those not famiar with 
pink panther movies..ahhh don't worry about it). -Bob

KA4HJH wrote:

>>>I traveled through New Jersey once, and they had the same law.
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>>First time I drove in Jersey I was visiting my then-girlfriend-now-wife,
>>and someone came up to me at a gas station, and I paniced. I thought I
>>was about to get carjacked!
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>We stopped at a gas station in Maryland once. A man came up to the car and
>asked "can I interest either of you gentlemen in a timepiece?"
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>We declined the generous offer.
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