Met my first wine and cheeser Options

[spare time toys]

I guess I have gotten used to the fact that everyone I know works on thier cars. I have four friends at work who have Porsches they work on them the Vette guys work on thier cars, heck even the couple of Vipre guys fix thier own cars. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/welder.gif) Well tonight I took me girl over to a friends house and knew her dad had a Porsche. Cool I think another P car guy I will get to know. He comes to the door and I ask him about his Porsche and tell him I have a 71 914. He says his is a Porsha ( correcting my yanky pronunciation) C4s. I say cool and tell him I am heading out to Cal. in a couple of weeks to get a 928 for the engine and put it in the14. He has the deer in the headlights look (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ohmy.gif) and tells me " I take my car to the dealer when it needs anything" I look at my watch whoops gotta go (IMG:style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif)

[Tom Perso]

I'm a government contractor computer weenie and work with other computer weenies (both goverment and contractors).

Not a single one of these people work on their cars, most lease their daily drivers and take 'em in for oil changes and tire rotations.

I was just complaining about how stupid our local VW dealer is with oil changes for our new 2004.5 Passat (1.8T). I talked about doing it's first oil change and it wasn't too bad.

"You change the oil yourself on your brand new car????" "Aren't you afraid you'd screw something up?"

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I talk about building my own motor and they look at me funny.

Later,
Tom