Neanderpundit

FoMoCo put food on the table for the first 18 years of my life, we were always a Ford family- though we owned Oldsmobiles and Chevys as well.

Dad was a big fan of their engines and I am a big fan of the reliability. If you take moderate care of a Ford, you can drive it just about forever. I have not worn out any Ford I ever owned, I just grew sick to death of them.

So: TO Me, Ford has always been the car that gets you there. Probably not with a great deal of style. Certainly not with racecar like agility. Sure, they made sporty cars- the Probe I drove for a quarter million miles was a lot of fun. But damn, it was pretty ugly.

So it is with some degree of discomfort that I have to say:

I like the 2013 Fusion. Yes, I know, the grille (Maybe it’s best feature) is a direct ripoff of the Aston Martin, and it may or may not owe it’s shape to Hyundai, but for a midsize saloon with a reasonable amount of room for four adults, it’s not horrible looking.

There, I’ve said it, and I’ll say it again. The Fusion is not fugly.

Of course the AWD version, the only one that is really good, is not available with a manual and can only be had with a stupid flappy paddle slushbox.

I knew they couldn’t get it quite right.

Still: Not ugly.

From 0640 to 1125 and am not apprecibly nearer my destination.

years ago, who had the worst damed case of plumbers ass I ever saw; I swear I wanted to spackle that thing. The bunch of us on the crew were constantly telling him to pull up his pants but he just laughed.

So we got in the habit of pennying him. We would hold a penny in our hands or under our armpit until it reached body temperature, and carefully drop the penny down his crack while someone else was distracting him.

Later, he would find change in his underwear before he went in the shower, or on especially warm days, the pennies would stick to his ass and get rinsed off in the shower.

he never did catch on. He’d be showering and $.17 would fall on the ground and he’d bend over to pick it up, reveling even more change stuck in his crack. We accused him of shitting money and we suggested he switch from pennies to Krugerrands.

I saw him today. He was doing an installation at a customer where I was. I couldn’t help dropping in a nickel dime and a couple pennies for old times sake.