A Michigaloot comes out of lurk mode -

> Name is Bill  Baringer, a carpenter who bought gas for 22 cents
> a gallon as a teen, and  southern Michigan is my beloved home.

Welcome aboard Bill. We got a good bunch around here, mostly within the area
bordered by I69 (from Port Huron to Lansing to the Indiana line, east to
Lake Erie, and up the waters back to Port Huron again. Not that there aren't
others beyond (and let's not forget Alan in Amherstburg, ON). You must be
almost as old as me since I remember paying $0.169 a gallon in high school
(between the years Jack and Bobby got shot).

> But, due to my proximity to  Detroit, the onetime Motor City, factory
> work was always the financial right  move.  After nearly 22 years in
> the auto supplier quality control field,  I moved on to carpentry full
> time.

It ain't what it used to be around here, is it? But we have real seasons and
lots of water. And we don't have earthquakes or hurricanes.

Dennis Heyza - figuring the glass is still half full in
Macomb, Michigan

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