[MBZ] Continued off topic/disposable society

[Mike Canfield]

Disposable it is.....I hate it.  That's why I drive a 68 Dodge M37 3/4 ton 
cargo truck every day.  I can take apart and fix every single component in 
my driveway.  The fact that it burns free "junk yard gas" from scrapping 
cars helps too.  68 octane and up and she's happy.....Will darned near burn 
varnish.

Mike
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeff Zedic" <jzedic at sympatico.ca>
To: "Mercedes Discussion List" <Mercedes at striplin.net>
Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2006 9:20 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] Continued off topic


>I often quote a story to people of when my brother was a buyer for a
> large national Canadian retailer. I won't say CT's name but Canadians on
> the list may know who CT is.
>
> He came back form mainland China all excited about how they had
> factories that made toasters and they could produce x number an
> hour....can't remember exactly but let's say 200 an hour. He was excited
> because they could produce this many and the suckers would work for 6
> cents an hour!
>
> Somehow, they could survive on that. I asked him how much harm would it
> do to give them 12 cents an hour and was met with a blank
> stare......surely another 6 cents an hour spread over 200 toasters is no
> big deal but the lowest common denominator rules!
>
> I guess the world doesn't need people like me with my 1956 Sunbeam T20
> that still works perfectly. When was the last time anyone tried to have
> a toaster repaired? Or tried it themselves?
>
> Thank you for the disposable society...............they should have told
> us when this started that it included people too.
>
>
> Jeff Zedic
> Toronto
> 1956 T20
> 1987 300TD
> Still uses tube amps and listens to vinyl
>
>
>
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