From: me@privacy.net   
      
   Joy Beeson  wrote   
      
   > I try to live in a rose-and-butterfly world where most people   
   believe,   
   > deep down where it counts, that it's wrong to hurt people, that   
   nobody   
   > owns anybody, and it isn't right to hold people to contracts that   
   they   
   > never signed.   
   	[...]   
   > A more-obvious notice, ten or twenty years ago, was  a "humor" column   
   > in some bicycle magazine.   
      
   > The author of the column had been in the habit of riding with a group   
   > of friends, one of whom was noted for refusing to change his chain   
   	[...]   
   > Since the old chain was irretrievable, he had no choice but to   
   replace   
   > his entire drivetrain, which was cheaper in the days of freewheels   
   > than it is now that everything is in cassettes, but still not cheap.   
      
   >   
   > I don't suppose that the expense was a hardship to the victim -- you   
   > don't go on club rides unless you are reasonably comfortable -- but   
   > that isn't how he had chosen to spend his money.    And he had to   
   give   
   > up riding until the new components could be ordered, delivered,   
   > installed, and shaken down.   
   >   
   > The narrator never suspected that his actions might have been in any   
   > way other than beneficial.   
      
   The papers this week carry a story from Israel of a lady whose daughter   
   decided to give her a new mattress. She replaced the old and set it to   
   be taken to a dump.   
      
   Her mother informed her that the old mattess had $1M in currency   
   concealed in it and the daughter is now visiting possible dumps.   
      
      
   --   
   Mike D   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)