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Originally Posted by cathycnm
I did sort of mean that. And, yea, it is easier, but I walk all winter. Now there is am interesting thesis in wellbeing - is choice of transmission positively correlated with physical activity level? I like it.
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One of my best friends from elementary school through the middle of high school had an older brother (9 years older) who had an old Porsche 911T (IIRC, it didn't have power anything). He felt (as a surprising number of people in our town did) that performance is the only thing that makes an expensive car worth the money. We played a lot of tennis, but he also had a speed bag (he talked his mother into letting him mount it on the ceiling of their downstairs family room), enrolled in martial arts, and is an expert skier (started when he was 4).
Many of the people in our town who weren't performance car enthusiasts, were on the other side of the spectrum.....driving big 'land yachts', floaty Lincolns, Cadillacs, and other similar cars that had power everything. My friend's next door neighbor was an Orthodontist who was an avid tennis player and drove a (faster than his brother's) 911 and bought his wife a BMW Alpina sedan. My friend looked at the landscape as black and white (metaphorically) -- that adults who owned cars like his neighbor's cars were in shape and the people who drove Lincolns, Cadillacs, and similar cars were not in shape...and that people were one or the other. I must admit, observation alone showed that there was more than a casual amount of truth to this (of course, mere memory is anecdotal
). The only exception to this I can think of was my next door neighbor (he was a kind of pudgy Pharmacist who had a pristine 1963 Split Window Corvette Stingray Coupe). Whether our town was similar to others in this respect is anyone's guess. My friend would sometimes refer to the Lincolns and Cadillacs as 'pimpmobiles' (he was joking -- most owners = doctors, business owners, etc.).
09-17-2013, 07:42 PM
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