[tcb] Re: Mirrors
- From: singlecabboy <sealingwaxred@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 18:52:03 -0700 (PDT)
Amem
--- Bob Perring <perring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Rather than drill mirror mount holes in the
> bus........
> we left town.
>
> Until that day of departure ,,,,,,, I hugged the far
> right lane and
> recited the Rosary.
>
> =====================
>
>
> At 20:23 10/18/2006, you wrote:
> >I just came in from driving from Wiesenhiemer Road
> and 610 here in
> >the happy town of Houston and I gotta tell you
> that, as I was
> >crossing two lanes of traffic in the friggin' dark,
> and everyone
> >doing 90 while I am doing a brisk 65 and I'm having
> to force my way
> >into lanes because...well, it's Houston, I
> remembered fondly that in
> >1972 I was driving a 1960 bus that had these big
> stable vertical
> >mirrors, called California or truck mirrors. The
> only knock I've
> >ever heard about them was that you had to drill
> holes into you doors
> >to install them. Well, as I am looking into the
> passenger side
> >elephant ears and trying to will my brain into
> reading the wiggling
> >distortion of headlights and trying to decode the
> distance and speed
> >of the hazardous asshole who won't let me come
> over. I was hearing a
> >voice in my head saying "FOR THE LOVE OF GOD GO
> TOMORROW AND BUY
> >SOME DAMN TRUCK MIRRORS SO YOU WON"T DIE IN A
> FLAMING ORGY OF
> >TWISTED METAL AND BROKEN GLASS!!!"
> >
> >So? Go ahead all you purists and tell me how I am
> going to mess up
> >what little stock is left to my bus. I have always
> said that as long
> >as the "new" stuff was not an improvement, I
> wouldn't use it, but I
> >am afraid that this is a safety improvement that is
> undeniable. If I
> >am going to drive my bus for the net 30 or so days,
> many times, on
> >major highways, I may need to improve the
> visability.
> >
> >So, there.
>
>
>
Paul Smith
www.23window.com/thezone
T.C.B.
H.B.B.
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