Re: Never Do This (was re: SCREWED by the ins. co.)

[Scott Fisher <sefisher@cisco.com>]

Huw Powell wrote:
> 
> > Alexander van Gerbig admits to doing The Bad Thing:
> >
> > >  I got bored two nights ago and totaled out all my receipts
> > >  for stuff I added or fixed on my '88 80, $9500!
> >
> > The reason this is The Bad Thing is that then you run the risk that you
> > might start thinking about what ELSE you could have bought for that much
> > money.
> 
> For the $13k I've spent on my coupe over 6 1/2 years, I coulda bought...
> what, an Escort?  

Oh, sure, if you bought a new car.  But who does that?

I think of this as The Bad Thing because I still shake my head about the
time I did this back in about 1986.  In that case, I added up all the
money I'd spent on a selection of weird old cars over the previous, oh,
four or five years, most of which I no longer owned.  

It was enough to buy a new ur-Q in the U.S., back when there *were* new
ur-Qs in the U.S.  And it was gone, gone, gone.

And *that* is the kind of hindsight that I think anyone on the list
would agree is cause for a nervous breakdown... :-)

--Scott