November 7, 1996
Dear Everyone:
Thank God the
elections are over!
Lately, the poor mail man
hasn’t been getting to my mailbox until after I get home (and I get home
pretty late) because of all the propaganda he has to deliver.
The battle between two candidates for the
state senate has been particularly grueling, especially for those of
us forced to put up with their commercials on TV and radio.
I was so looking forward to voting against the both of them,
until I discovered they weren’t even in my district!
There oughta be a
law (Proposition 9999) making it illegal for candidates to pollute the
airways outside their respective districts.
Speaking of pollution, I understand the Prop to make it legal for
medical patients to smoke
marijuana,
when prescribed by a doctor, passed with flying colors.
At least the silliness is over for a while.
Onward...
Can anyone explain to me why there are so many big, fat trucks on the road these days? I don’t mean the ones hauling vegetables to the supermarket, I mean the pickup trucks and SUV’s (“sport utility vehicle”, whatever that means) and “mini-vans”, not to mention just plain vans. Vans I can understand. They’re used to transport a relatively large number of people from Point A to Point B.
But why are there so
many trucks and SUV’s? How
many of these drivers really need
to haul tons of whatever around and how many of them just like to own
something that’s “macho”?
I’m wondering if anyone has ever done a study on the percentage of
“utility” vehicles whose only utility is to bring home the groceries,
which would fit just fine in a regular trunk.
And why are so many
of them so high off the ground?
I need a step ladder to get up into one of those things.
There’s even a commercial for one, showing a woman trying to get
out of it in a short skirt, no easy task.
I’m told they have to be that high (the trucks, not the skirts)
to allow for the
four-wheel drive mechanisms.
And those four-wheel drives are used for...?
Oh, you know, for getting over the speed bumps in the shopping
center parking lots. Ever
wonder how many of these “off road” trucks have never been off a paved
road in their entire, gas guzzling, lives?
And another thing:
Their headlights are set too high up.
Instead of pointing at the road, they’re pointed at my rear view
mirror. How come those
drivers can’t remember to dim their bright lights, anyway?
Is it because they’re too dim to begin with?
OK, rant’s over.
For now.
I got the Ashland
brochure and ordered tickets for next August.
We’ll be seeing (big breath)
King Lear,
As You Like It,
Timon of Athens,
The Magic Fire, and
Two
Gentlemen of Verona.
(By the way, “Alice”, the last time they did
Two Gentlemen... was in 1989.)
No movies again this
week, because “Jeannie” and I both had too much work to do last weekend.
(“Jeannie” was so busy she couldn’t even go
shopping with me.)
However, I have high hopes for this weekend, with or without
“Jeannie”.
Love, as always,
Pete
| Previous | Next |