[TheForge] Always wear clean underwear.

[Michael H. Murphy]

PICKY, PICKY, PICKY! :-)

Good analysis, and yes it's almost certainly untrue.  As I said before, "Who
cares?  It's a funny story."

Murf

> -----Original Message-----
> From: theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:theforge-
> bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of terry l. ridder
> Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2004 11:01 PM
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> Subject: Re: [TheForge] Always wear clean underwear.
> 
> hello;
> 
> okay, just for grins let us take this story a part piece by piece.
> 
> 
> 
> > From the Cape Breton Post News comes this story of a Sydney couple
> > who drove their car to Walmart, only to have their car break down in
> > the parking lot. The man told his wife to carry on with the shopping
> > while he fixed the car in the lot.
> 
> this is inconsistant.
> 
> why bother purchasing anything if it is unknown as to whether you would
> be able to get it home or not.
> 
> if the man knew he could fix it or knew what was wrong why not fix it
> before it broke down in the walmart parking lot? also if it was easy for
> him to fix why bother with a mechanic?
> 
> where did it break down in the parking lot. it would be way to
> convenient for the automobile to break down in a parking place. why
> would the woman leave and not help the man at least push/move the car
> out of the way of other parking lot traffic.
> 
> > The wife returned later to see a small group of people near the car.
> > On closer inspection, she saw a pair of male legs protruding from
> > under the chassis.
> 
> given the low ground clearance of most automobiles it is highly unlikely
> that any adult male would be able to get far enough under an automobile
> so that only their legs were showing.
> 
> there is also the question of how would anyone notice that someone is
> under a car in a walmart parking lot. do people walk around parking lot
> looking for people laying under an automobile. most people i observe
> head straight for their vehicle and want to get out of there.
> 
> i question the supposed mechanic's sanity by laying down in a parking
> lot with his legs sticking out from under an automobile. if he had any
> brains he would be worried about being run over by someone who did not
> see his legs sticking out from under the automobile.
> 
> > under the chassis. Although the man was in shorts, his lack of
> > underpants turned private parts into glaringly public ones. Unable to
> > stand the embarassment, she dutifully stepped forward, quickly put
> > her hand UP his shorts, and tucked everything back into place. On
> 
> this is where it becomes really bogus.
> most women know what clothes their husbands wear. also most women would
> be able to recognize their husband's legs. since this woman had supposely
> gone into the walmart to shop it is safe to assume that she had either
> plastic shopping bag/bags in at least one hand perhaps two, or she was
> pushing a shopping cart. yet this woman knelt down to perform this
> supposely noble act.
> 
> > regaining her feet, she looked across the hood and found herself
> > staring at her husband who was standing idly by. The mechanic,
> > however, had to have three stitches in his forehead.
> 
> 
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> terry l. ridder ><>
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