[R-390] Wives and Boatanchors

[Cecil Acuff]

Well Bill I can see that your plan is going to require I start buying
lighter radio's...didn't think about having to box and ship all these jewels
I have purchased...and can barely lift.  I guess the good part is I know for
a fact she can't lift any of them up over the side of a dumpster.

I guess I am halfway there....got 1 and 2 down already!

Cecil...
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Hawkins" <bill at iaxs.net>
To: "Cecil Acuff" <chacuff at cableone.net>; "Larry and Jody Cogan"
<woodrat at citynet.net>; <r-390 at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2004 12:06 PM
Subject: RE: [R-390] Wives and Boatanchors


> Cecil,
>
> Actually, its a lot like drinking. One radio acquired makes you feel good.
> The next one makes you feel better, and there's no pesky hangover.
>
> Depressed? Had a bad day? Buy another radio, examine the beauty of it
> and cast it upon the pile of things to fix someday. There's a feeling
> of accomplishment that comes from buying a radio. If you're a fierce
> competitor, there's a feeling of accomplishment from stealing another
> radio. There's a feeling of accomplishment from fixing a radio, but
> too often it is preceded by frustration that nothing you have done
> will make it work.
>
> And so, bad day by bad day, the pile grows. If one radio is good, an
> estate must be ecstatic.
>
> Then, when you thought the good times would never end, you discover that
> there really are limits to growth. It is time for the 4 step program:
>
> 1. Realize that there is a higher power.
> 2. Realize that your rational brain is no match for it.
> 3. Discover that there is joy in selling radios.
> 4. When they are all gone, re-discover the joy of buying radios.
>
> Repeat 1 through 4 as often as necessary, for as long as there is a market
> in old radios. What Death doesn't accomplish by killing us off, BPL will.
>
> Happy collecting and recycling,
> Bill Hawkins
>
>