From: Spike Jones (spike66@ibm.net)
Date: Wed Dec 23 1998 - 23:32:57 MST
> Spike Jones wrote: evmick, are you ok? i heard tx had bad weather...
>
> Dan Clemmensen wrote: Spike, Ev lives in his truck, so we
> hear from him from all over.
i know. last he posted his whereabouts, it was in tx, close to
where they had that big pileup problem.
> ...DC area, where my kids just cam back into the house after
> participating in a wild neighborhood night sledding party.
ice is good for kids, bad for the rest of us. several years ago i
worked at china lake and they had a rare cold snap one day when
the temp was about 14 f (-10 c). to get on the base you had to
show your badge at the guard gate. the guard had seen me riding
a motorcycle on a number of occasions when the weather was
nicer. went out that morning, truck wouldnt start. i needed to
get to work , so just for laughs i decided to try starting my old bike.
fired up second kick. i put on every stitch of clothing i owned
and off i went.
when i got to the guard gate, i managed to stop the bike but i was
in a hypothermic torpor and my hands were too frozen to get my
badge out of my pocket. i struggled to find the badge and the guard said
"i *KNOW* who you are, you silly ass. who else would ride a
motorcycle on a day like this? get in here before you freeze to death."
{8^D spike
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