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Date:	Sat, 18 Feb 2006 16:52:45 PST8
From:	Colin Campbell <cmcampb@adelphia.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: The purpose of SCOUG meetings

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Peter Skye wrote:
> The purpose of SCOUG meetings is to make sure your car works.
>
> I print the Next Meeting web pages so I have something to
> refer to. I grab the checkbook so I can pay my annual dues.
> I bring along the new EEM 2006 directory to give to Steve
> Carter. I get in the truck and turn the switch -- click. No
> vroom. I turn it some more. Click click click. No vroom.
> Clickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclick. No
> vroom. #@!&*#@. Kick the firewall hard. Click. Vroom.
> What the?
>
> So I drive over to the mechanic and pull into an empty bay. I
> get out and tell him it wouldn't start. He gets in and tries
> it. Click. No vroom.
>
> One new starter and $220 later, I've missed the SCOUG meeting.
>
> This is the third meeting in twelve months I've missed due to
> car trouble. And the stupid thing has never failed on any
> other day. Three SCOUG Saturdays have yielded a new starter,
> a new clutch and a new fan belt.
>
> So I have a suggestion. I think we should have SCOUG meetings
> _every_ Saturday. A few weeks of that and my truck will be
> in mint condition.
>
> - Peter
>
>
Some days, it doesn't pay to get out of bed. I believe you know which
days those are....

Sorry to have missed you.
Colin

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