Praise the LORD! I've won the bid!..

“I did an online auction and won! I can't hardly believe it! Soon I will be driving again!”

“simple pleasures, great rewards...head west and come to Missouri, we got REEL mountains here...


well, ok, so we don't...but come anyway.”

“...I know Missouri doesn't have "real" mountians but it does have some great hills I'm sure! The Ozarks ALWAYS fascinated me! Personally, I want to relocate to Missouri, in the southern part around Rolla or Houston. If I can line myself up with employment I will make the "big move", believe me!”

“...and great trails also!”

“It meens you can do some good hard backpacking!

8)”

“I can't hardly wait! Southern Ohio, here I come!”

“...in Marietta afterwards to celebrate the great time outdoors!”

“So you got a vehicle? A fake driver's license?? Glasses???

What DID you get?”

“...thats what I got! A car!

A two door hatchback in a 5 speed manual shift! Just what I was looking for. Plus it will get excellent gas mileage, 36 miles HWY.”

“Now you can come backpacking with all of us.


8)”

“...in around three weeks or so. I need to get tags and registration to drive it back to Ohio. I will need to save up some lucre to acomplish this however. My friend Shirley said she will drive me out to fetch the car.”

“Good for you Oskar, what happened to your other car? Not the civic, but the little red one?”

“The stupid oil pump "died". The jerk I bought the Mitsubishi from purposely DISCONNECTED the oil sensor light (I found out later after the fact) so he could make it to appear he did all this alleged "work" to the car before selling it to me. Of course while Appletree and I were on our way to Indiana for a job prospect the engine blew due to lack of oil. We were just ten miles north of the I-70 Loop on I-71 just north of Columbus. We unfortunately had to turn back. Thank God the car made it back to Akron. It's now sitting in my driveway with a blown engine.”

“That sucks...you should always check the oil every couple of fill ups...that's why they have paper towels available at the pumps of gas stations.”

“Sooooo...you mean you bought a car without even being able to touch/drive it?

And I know you said you were from Rocky River, yet now you imply Akron???”

“That's eBay for you...”

“do i have to change my name to "radaghastly"?”

“...but from some local huckster named Pete, some lady at work suggested this personage because this Pete is her friend. He is no friend of mine I can assure you!”

“Does the car have enough room for you to sleep in the back, or do you just park it down by the quickie-mart while you camp in the city park?”

“Neither.”

“You drove the car back home with no oil and it is someone else's fault?”

“...in a way that EVEN you can understand it, ok?

First of all, the personage I bought the car off DISCONNECTED the sensor wire for the oil pressure. With me thus far???

Then I head to Indiana and the oil pump goes, understand? If so, great.

Now the engine GETS no OIL since the oil pump DIED. See now? No oil being pumped into the engine is like running the car without any oil. I hope I explained it to you in a way even YOU could understand. If not, what can I say?”

“The saga just keeps on rollin!”

“This is better the Sienfeld.Congrats Ohio hiker.I own two Hyundais,great little cars.Even handle a canoe well.Ohio hiker your seats should fold back,enabling you to "urban camp"
My wife and I used to camp out in my old honda civic...just drive fold the seat back and snore time ....beat paying for a campsite!!!!”

“This personage doesn't think the LORD had squat to do with your ALPS automobile purchase.

BTW- Good buy!”

“I'm still having trouble with the fact that over the internet you (in Ohio) won a bid to purchased a vehicle (in Virginia) that you haven't even looked at, touched or drove. Is it new or something close to it? Am I missing something here???

Regardless..............GOOD LUCK!”

“I think Hyundais are great cars! I owned two (Accents) and they were the best cars I ever owned! Plus the parts are fairly inexpensive!”

“You what they say about certain types of personages and those personages's money.

May the lord guide you and keep you, cause it seems like you have all the common sense of a drunken 15-year-old at a hookers convention.”

“Obviously, since YOU, Ohio Hiker, refuse to respond to my inquireing posts regarding purchasing something without ever handling it, I think it's safe to assume that this is the case. And with that I must ask..."WHAT WERE YOU THINKING???"”

“...thankyou!”

“...what are YOU ranting about?”

“It's sort of like typing a note, tacking it to a tree and expecting the tree to understand what you've typed, Buddur.”

“...That's what this all sounds to me.”

“didn't the disciples handle the Word of Life?”

“ELF wouldn't like to hear how you harm innocent trees! Keep a good lookout on your SUV, ye evil murderer of the enviroment! Or else it just may go up in smoke if you get my drift! With the word "ELF" painted on the bloody thing!”

“i don't want to hike with you, ohio hiker.”

“...I already have my own hiking partner. I perfer NOT to hike with nasty personages anyhow. Have a nice life.”

“"while Appletree and I were on our way to Indiana for a job prospect the engine blew due to lack of oil... We unfortunately had to turn back. Thank God the car made it back to Akron. It's now sitting in my driveway with a blown engine."

So you drove it home without oil and it's not your fault?

Dope!”

“don't be blaming things on him that were completely out of his hands. there was nothing anyone could have done about this.”

“So the engine is blown, but you made it back to your driveway?

If your oil pump TRUELY quit and if the oil sensor was REALLY disconnected, theoretically the engine was not getting proper lubrication. If that WERE the case, your engine would have gotten so hot your temp sensor should've read it and an idiot light would've alerted you that something was wrong. And somehow, miracously, you managed to drive the vehicle ALL THE WAY BACK without oil...back to your driveway!?!?

And wasn't it WVbackpacker who, maybe 2-3 months ago, mentioned he and his girlfriend were going to Indiana to seek employment??? I could be wrong.

Regardless, I don't believe you are the personage you say you are, Ohio Hiker.”

“not today, but tomorrow? who's to say, he just might be who he said he is today.”

“And wasn't it WVbackpacker who, maybe 2-3 months ago, mentioned he and his girlfriend were going to Indiana to seek employment??? I could be wrong.

Uh, NO. I'm in college in Columbus for another year and I already work for a good company...no need to find a new job.”

“Besides, what the hell is there in Indiana??”

“I'm still amazed.

The guy bid online for a '94 hyundai without seeing it - in another state. THEN he gets on trail talk to BRAG about it?!?”

“My car just crapped out. I found one on the internet with only 176,483 miles on it:
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I put in a bid for 436 dollars and WON!! I live in Kentucky and the car is in Minnesota. It's in good shape, with only three holes rusted in the driver's floorboard, but a piece of plywood takes care of that problem. Amazingly all it will take to get it running is a new fuel pump, 3 tires, a new serpentine hose, muffler, and valve job. The thing I need advice on is this: When I go to pick it up, should I stay at Motel 6 or Super 8?”

“ROFL!”

“The saga just keeps getting better and better, like fine wine aging, like Calyfornyah politics, like a marriage made in heaven, ... oh hell, it's just great! Thanks for the laughs.”