Re: Tempting (and then seducing) the fates

["Ludo Andries" <LudoAndries@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At least yours started properly !

Ludo, Belgium

- ----- Original Message -----
From: Steve Lawler <slawler@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: ST Digest <ST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2000 12:15 AM
Subject: Tempting (and then seducing) the fates


> *****WARNING*****
> Disclaimer:This post should not be read by the humor impaired. Reading
> it could lead to advanced cynicism.
>
> I haven't ridden in a month due to too much snow and ice on the roads.
> My other excuse is my 32 degree Fahrenheit limit. It used to be 40
> degrees Fahrenstock but the ST generates so much heat. Ahhh. It seems
> like yesterday that we were complaining about that.
>
> I decided to go out to the garage and see what problems I would
> encounter.
>
> Tire pressure. OK
>
> Went to lube the chain but the can of lube would not spray. After a
> short period of sitting inside it thawed out. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I know
> WD-40 would not freeze but who gives a fat rat's poop chute.
>
> I finally inserted the key and turned it. If the battery was to be flat
> like everyone mentions in the "Miserable news from Jack Lilley blah,
> blah, blah" posts I would have to jump it.( we really should change that
> subject line; it makes JL appear to bring doom and gloom) If not, I
> fully expected the fuel pump to run forever. The whine started and
> finally stopped after an eternity-like 2 seconds.
>
> My 14 year old son (the one that wants a Ducati Monster or for that
> matter anything cute and italian like his mother) climbed on and we went
> for a short ride. I decided to take one of my favorite short-cuts
> through the Essex County Hospital grounds. The curves had little piles
> of rock salt and the straights had ice patches. ICE PATCHES! Yikes that
> tells me, and ya don't need to be an injuneer to know that, it's below
> 32 degrees Fahrfrumpukin!
>
> We made our way out and about and on our way home we passed the Little
> Falls Bank and its trust thermometer that read 31 degrees Fahroutman.
> (Damn. I wish I knew how to make that little degree circle sign thingy.)
>
> 31 and no heated grips. No electric vest. No electric underwear. No
> electric speedos!
>
> So to all of you with flat batteries, forever whining fuel pumps, 40
> degree limits and enough Ni-Chrome wire running through your clothes to
> stretch from Hinckley to Hong Kong: you have my sympathies and an under
> my breath neener-neener-neener.
>
> --
> Steve Lawler
> A Red Sox fan (and with the trade of Jr., a Reds fan) living in Yankee
> country
>
> 2000 Sprint ST (Blue, of course)
> 1980 Honda CM400T "My Little Red Putt-Putt"
>
> I.A.T.S.E. Locals #52 & 84
>
> "Life is far too important to be taken seriously." Oscar Wilde
>
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