[DeTomaso] Glad my ears still work

cengles at cox.net cengles at cox.net
Thu Feb 19 08:55:57 EST 2009


Dear Forum, 

Amazing. What other automotive forum provides practical garage safety tips, philosophy and poetry?! It is astounding. 

Warmest regards, Chuck Engles


---- Sean Korb <spkorb at gmail.com> wrote:
>On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 8:55 PM, Robert Simpson <R.Simpson35 at verizon.net> wrote:
>>
>>Funny how your senses can go on full alert when things like that happen, the
>>water heater sounded like a jet engine as it fired up, LOL, I almost crapped
>>myself. Gas fumes in the garage, puddle on the floor and the water heater
>>(bzzzzzzzzzz WOOSH)
>
>Yiiikes!
>
>One of the first things I did after I bought my Pantera was replace
>the fuel lines and filter since the car had been stored in a car port
>for the 10 years that I had been admiring it from afar. But that
>didn't protect me. I also siphoned out all the gasoline from the tank
>(I thought I had a volatility problem) and went inside the house to
>fix a sandwich.
>
>Don't get distracted when siphoning gasoline. When I came back to
>check on it the 6 gallon gas can was overflowing and a puddle 12 feet
>in diameter had formed around my new car... and under the water
>heater! I had a squeegee and got as much of it as I could out of the
>garage, all the while imagining myself immolated like Don Marquis The
>Lesson of the Moth.
>
>the lesson of the moth
>
>i was talking to a moth
>the other evening
>he was trying to break into
>an electric light bulb
>and fry himself on the wires
>
>why do you fellows
>pull this stunt i asked him
>because it is the conventional
>thing for moths or why
>if that had been an uncovered
>candle instead of an electric
>light bulb you would
>now be a small unsightly cinder
>have you no sense
>
>plenty of it he answered
>but at times we get tired
>of using it
>we get bored with the routine
>and crave beauty
>and excitement
>fire is beautiful
>and we know that if we get
>too close it will kill us
>but what does that matter
>it is better to be happy
>for a moment
>and be burned up with beauty
>than to live a long time
>and be bored all the while
>so we wad all our life up
>into one little roll
>and then we shoot the roll
>that is what life is for
>it is better to be a part of beauty
>for one instant and then cease to
>exist than to exist forever
>and never be a part of beauty
>our attitude toward life
>is come easy go easy
>we are like human beings
>used to be before they became
>too civilized to enjoy themselves
>
>and before i could argue him
>out of his philosophy
>he went and immolated himself on a patent cigar lighter
>i do not agree with him
>myself i would rather have
>half the happiness and twice
>the longevity
>
>but at the same time i wish
>there was something i wanted
>as badly as he wanted to fry himself
>
>--
>Sean Korb spkorb at spkorb.org http://www.spkorb.org
>'65, '68 Mustangs, '68 Cougar, '78 R100/7, '60 Metro, '59 A35, '71 Pantera #1382
>"The more you drive, the less intelligent you get" --Miller
>"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers." -P. Picasso
>
>
>


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