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Skriven 2015-11-06 14:09:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
Ärende: Re: travel(l)ing 417
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-=> Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 11-03-15  14:12 <=-

 >  ML> We'll listen for a second opinion [g]. Actually, I'm a 
 >  ML> literalist when I feel like, and if someone says "I'd
 >  ML> like to see as many historic buildings as possible," hah,
 >  ML> s/he doesn't know what s/he's gotten into. After twenty
 >  ML> or so they start to look the same.
 > I'll keep that in mind... ;)  Of course, living with a literalist hubby,
 > I have developed a healthy "keep broad statements in check" and "try to
 > say precisely what is meant" habit...  ;)
 ML> If there are forty historic buildings and one wants to
 ML> see ten, one doesn't say as many as possible, because
 ML> I'll move heaven and earth to get one to as many as
 ML> possible!

So, obviously, one should say something like, I'm interested in seeing
historic buildings, ten or so is probably my capacity, I'd like to see
as many as possible within that, and these are the ones I'm most
interested in seeing...  ;)

 >  ML> by the way, that airline cockpits are relying more and more
 >  ML> on GPS navigation? One hopes there are backup systems, such
 >  ML> as pilots actually using their eyes, but someday something
 >  ML> is going to happen.
 > One does indeed hope... GPS navigation has its place... but... 
 ML> But that's all mooted when an Airbus can just sort of
 ML> randomly blow up in mid-air. This didn't bother me this
 ML> morning, when I rode 867 on an Airbus.

Yeah, a bit scary that...  but if one travels a lot (or even just a
little, I suppose), one can't get bothered over every incident, or one
might be paralyzed thereby... I remember my second trip to Britain was
shortly after the Lockerbee incident... got a lot of questioning from
people (who mostly should have known better) about how I was daring
enough to take the chance on flying to Britain from the States... and I
wasn't even a seasoned traveler...

 >  >  >  ML> worth the trouble. Sad - where will I find another bag with
 >  >  >  ML> orange wheels?
 >  ML> Or quiet wheels - the other thing was incredibly silent - I guess
 >  ML> they were made with a plastic or rubber that was both soft and 
 >  ML> very durable. As it was incredibly superior to anything else I'd
 >  ML> ever encountered for the purpose, of course they quit making it.
 ML> Well, the thing lasted over 30 years. Had lunch with
 ML> my girlfriend from 40 years ago today, and she remembered 
 ML> it, sort of.

Yellow wheels are memorable...?  ;)  I suppose that the real problem
with incredibly superior is that it lasts too well, so there aren't
enough repeat sales from the original purchasers... and not enough
others willing to buy enough to keep the manufacture thereof
sufficiently cost-effective, at least to the bean-counters... :)

ttyl           neb

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