Re: American's and stick shifts (long)

[Michael Zamarocy <mhdavion@earthlink.net>]

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>But gradually, Mr. Lovett began to realize he needed another arm. Balancing
>calls to co-workers on his cell phone while eating breakfast and drinking
>coffee became too arduous.

Isn't this a sad sign of our times? Now, in such a rush rush business
world, even the last vestige of enjoyment we have had in the past, sport
driving in solitude, is now destroyed. Oh, we GOTTA get that last phone
call in, or we GOTTA make that one last friggin merger! Takeover, takeover!
Merger, Buy Buy Buy Sell Sell Sell !!!!!!! No wonder people go postal, no
wonder we have so damn many ulcers, or Prozac junkies!

>Something had to go, and on May 3, it was his Volkswagen Passat and its
>stick shift. Mr. Lovett's new BMW 528 has an automatic transmission.

I think it should have been the JOB that went! We do not LIVE for the job,
its supposed to be the JOB supports our LIVES!

>"I was always having to put people on hold to change gears," Mr. Lovett
>says.
>
>Drivers like Mr. Lovett are writing the obituary for manual transmissions.

guys like this aren't just writing the obituaries for manual transmissions!
These jerks are also ruining OUR lives! it is people like him that create
the so called "RIGHT-SIZING", or dictate to us how we should do our jobs!
ENOUGH ALREADY!

>For years, Americans have been bringing more nondriving activities to their
>cars, turning transportation machines into minihomes. People who once
>enjoyed feeling a direct connection to their engines wanted to concentrate
>on weightier matters than their gears. 

It is all in the mind of the beholder, its just some of those beholders
have power over OUR lives!

Gosh I wish we could go back to the 50's or 60's!

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Thanks
Mike Z