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79SuperVert
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 23, 2002 5:51 am    Post subject: No language barrier. Reply with quote

I pull up to my usual gas station. Nice guy works there. Russian or Ukrainian. Bit of a language barrier, but we manage. He looks at the car while it's filling up. Points to the front of the car. "Four seelinder?", he asks. "Yes", I say, and point to the back. He looks at me for a couple of seconds, then gets this look on his face as if to say, "Oh, yeah, I knew that!"
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 24, 2002 7:18 am    Post subject: No language barrier. Reply with quote

i was tearing up the side walk in front of my house and loading the busted up concrete into the hood of my squareback. these kids come along and say "aw snap, why you puttin dat in dere?" i tell them the car is hungry and only eats concrete. they ask why there is no engine and i repeat it only eats concrete.
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 24, 2002 12:25 pm    Post subject: No language barrier. Reply with quote

Nice, hehe. I like.
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 29, 2002 1:39 pm    Post subject: No language barrier. Reply with quote

i used to work in a historic bakery, Old Salem's Winkler bakery for those in NC. one afternoon i was walking to my car, a 72 superbeetle at the time when a couple pass me on the sidewalk. they were speaking Afrikaans, and were from South Africa. as i am opening the door the man calls to me and says "nice bug man." he then procedes to come back and we talk about it for a while. he seemed to be in his 30's and told me about how they ahd moved to W-S a few years ago and in South africa, almost everyone has a beetle. he said he used to work on them with his friends back in the day, and how much he would love to find and buy a nice one the in the states. we converse for a few more minutes and i hop in to fire her up and clunk.... dead battery. the radio had been on all day while i was baking cookies. i yell back at him and ask if he'd give me a push so i could pop-start it. so his wife hops behind the wheel and he and i start pushing. the old gal sputtered back to life and i was on my way. that is the great thing about VW people, they are almost always NICE!
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