----Original Message ----
From: [my aunt] Francie Sent:
Wednesday, January 22, 2003 5:09 AM To: [the
McJannet family mailing list] Subject: One of
the wonderful things about playing hockey is it
has made winter out here [Connecticut, I
believe] MUCH more tolerable. But this year,
I've really got to complain. We are at our ninth
straight day of below freezing temperatures,
with at least five more days of the same. We
will not even factor in the wind chill because
frankly who would want to know that? I'm
planning a vacation to the beaches of the
Dominican Republic to keep my spirits up. I
found out that cool people simply refer to it as
"DR". What I want to know is, would it be
sinfully extravagant to buy gas at a full
service pump when it's 8 degrees out?
---- Original Message ---- From: [my aunt] Kate To:
Francie; [family mail list] Sent: Wednesday,
January 22, 2003 9:38 AM Subject: RE: I don't
think that's extravagant, it's survival!
----Original Message ---- From: Scott McJ To: Kate;
Francie; [family mail list] Sent: Wednesday,
January 22, 2003 12:12 PM Subject: Re: Eh. I
have to vote on the side of extravagant. Maybe
living out in the luxurious East has made you
soft, what with its yacht clubs and the crabs
throwing themselves against rocks to break open
for your easier consumption and the door-to-door
top-hat buffing service. But just this last
weekend, I was talking with g'pa (dad/g'g'pa),
and he was telling about how when he was a
younger man he had to squeeze the oil out of
shale with his bare hands and refine it from
crude with only his hypnotic gaze and the power
of pure will. Later, of course, when he was a
slightly less younger man, well, then he would
have Bill do it. And now, g'pa was saying,
they've got these fancy-pants dispensing
machines that squeeze the oil and apply the
hypnotic gaze without you having to do anything
but hold a handle and listen to your muscles
atrophy. Full service! Bah! Next you'll be
telling us you're only buying Calvin Klein?
gasoline. -S.