Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Ferrari List Threads

[Grahame Reinthal (grahame]

Hello Rick,

If you have not gone already, I have been a Ferrari owner for about 14 years
and only discovered the various chat sites and email lists quite recently. I
joined mainly to find out stuff about the cars and also it's fun to be part
of an international community sharing a common interest.

If you are still with us, maybe you have some thoughts on my ceramic exhaust
question.

Cheers,
Grahame

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rick Lindsay [mailto:rolindsay [at] yahoo.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, 20 September 2006 1:23 AM
> To: Grahame
> Cc: 'The FerrariList'
> Subject: Re: [Ferrari] Ferrari List Threads
> 
> Dennis wrote:
>   ...Then someone, quite possibly Jenkins, will say, jokingly, "hey, we
> need
> a watch/gun/gasoline price/dead cats" thread.
> 
> Which will cause someone else to jump in and actually post one, just to
> stir things up.  My old mom had a name for people who do things like that.
> 
>      Dennis, I recently rejoined this list after a few years away.  I
> found it refreshing, friendly and kinda like the List we had about a
> decade ago.  We actually discussed our cars.  At that time, we were all
> somewhat new to the breed and most of us couldn't just go out and buy a
> 355 F1 or whatever.  We struggled with the same old issues of crappy A/C
> and cold 2nd gear woes.  We discussed oil filters and sources for parts
> not unique to the marque.  We had to guard our money for we had precious
> little of it.  We saved and saved then met in Italy where we forged some
> life-long friendships.  We were almost family.
>      I hoped to regain a little of that feeling when I rejoined the List a
> month or so ago.  At first, it seemed that we actually were a group of
> friends again.  I invited Ric Rainbolt, Peter Henrys and Rui Gigante, as
> well as others, to rejoin and enjoy our passion for the Italian marque.  A
> few familiar names and faces surfaced and all seemed pretty nice ...but
> life is not like that.
>      Life is dominated by the few, the brave, the noisy.  It is dominated
> by people who enjoy introducing chaos then watching others flail.  That is
> EXACTLY what 'reality TV' is about.  Watching other people suffer.
> There's always a few who enjoy the unhappiness of others.  And they
> certainly don't care who is unhappy.
>      I guess what I am saying is that I feel that I must apologize to my
> friends whom I invited to rejoin this forum.  Albeit in naive honesty, I
> mislead them.  For that, I am sorry.  I am vividly and unhappily reminded
> why I left this list a few years ago ...and I now must leave it again -
> not that anyone would care.  The Ferrari list I remember, the Ferrari List
> I enjoyed, does not exist.  Goodbye.
> 
>   Rick Lindsay / Houston, TX
>   '79 308GTB #28133
> 
> 
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