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gas station syndrome
By:Julie Kanarr
Date: 3/6/2001, 10:07 am
In Response To: parking lot syndrome (daniel)

I get gas station syndrome ...whenever I pull into a service station with a wooden kayak or two on top of the vehicle and people ask about the boats. (at every gas stop I routinely check the rack & tie-down straps while the gas tank is filling.) When I say that I built them, the reaction ranges from admiration to amazement to disbelief (the latter, most likely, because of my gender.) The farther the service station is from salt water, the more amazed people are-- and the more likely they are to refer to my rack residents as "canoes" (and no, those folks aren't British.)

Julie Kanarr
Wilsall/Livingston MT

Messages In This Thread

parking lot syndrome
daniel -- 3/4/2001, 10:15 pm
gas station syndrome
Julie Kanarr -- 3/6/2001, 10:07 am
Re: gas station syndrome
Matthew Bastian -- 3/7/2001, 9:22 am
Re: gas station syndrome
Angela Watson -- 3/7/2001, 8:28 pm
Re: gas station syndrome
Bill Jankowski -- 3/7/2001, 10:19 pm
Weather This :)
Roger Nuffer -- 3/7/2001, 11:02 pm
Re: Trout opener!
Don Beale -- 3/8/2001, 5:28 pm
Yikes!
Pete Rudie -- 3/8/2001, 1:40 am
Re: gas station syndrome
Mike Hanks -- 3/7/2001, 11:24 am
Re: gas station syndrome
daniel -- 3/7/2001, 10:42 am
Re: gas station syndrome
Paul G. Jacobson -- 3/7/2001, 2:15 am
Re: parking lot syndrome
Mike Hanks -- 3/4/2001, 10:44 pm
Here's an idea...
Shawn Baker -- 3/5/2001, 8:56 pm
p.s.
daniel -- 3/4/2001, 10:16 pm
Re: P.S. ( p.s. ) No Excuses!!
Rehd -- 3/5/2001, 2:00 am
Pictures please. *NM*
John Monfoe -- 3/5/2001, 4:25 am
Tough bunch, ehh Daniel! *NM*
Jerry Siegel -- 3/5/2001, 11:34 am