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Re: Popularity contest


DILLARDP@edu-suu-lifac.li.suu.edu wrote:
> 
> Now that my '71 Squareback and I are getting older, I am beginning to be bemused
> at some of the comments I hear about it (or me???).
> 
> I was driving down the street when two teenage boys looked at the squareback (or me???)
>  and said, "AWESOME!  (Well, folks, honesty must prevail...the SB is five-years
>  removed from its restoration, and is no longer "awesome", sad to say).
> 
> A few days later I was pulling into the parking lot of the local supermarket
> when a group of youngsters got all excited.  One of them yelled, "How old is
> it" (the car or me???)?  All I could think to say was, "A lot oldern you!)  Then
> I did the complex mathematical calculations and told him "26 years".
> 
> Now, let me assure you that, as wistfully as I wish, my T3 is not awesome.  Howsoever,
> it occurs to me that (a) many kids today have never seen a SQBK, because (b) there
> ain't any in town besides mine. God, who woulda ever believed that someday something
> as common as a VW would be regarded as an "awesome" piece of automotive machinery!
> What next will be admired...toothbrushes?
> 
> Phil
> dillard@suu.edu
> 
> 
I had some kids tell me that they didn't know they made station wagons
that long ago!
Tom


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