A newer version of the bus in post https://mparij.wordpress.com/2015/11/03/public-surplus-auction-1471449/ and one of the last TC/2000s made.
B- 2004 Bluebird Handicap Bus 44 – Ohio Schools Council Surplus
Source: Public Surplus: Auction #1484343
Month: November 2015
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Two more people we acquaint with many years earlier in “Early Life And Continuous Livelihood” are veterinarian Dr. Jan Pol from the Netherlands and his wife Diane Pol.
Jan & Diane had first met while he was an exchange student from the Netherlands at the High School she attended, Mayville High School in Mayville, Michigan This was in 1961 during Diane’s Senior year in High School. As Jan came off the plane just prior to staying with Diane’s family as an exchange student, he noticed Diane towering over everybody else. Diane was 5-foot-8-and-a-half in height; and Jan was 6-2. The moment that Jan had stepped off the plane, Diane had thought that he wasn’t as good-looking as she had previously thought he would be, but by the end of the year, they were good friends as if they were brother and sister. Jan & Diane had fallen in love when she spent a summer in the Netherlands with his family. Once Jan had returned to the Netherlands, he and Diane had wrote to each other every so often by exchanging letters using International postage from both the Netherlands and the United States. As Jan had invited Diane to visit him in the Netherlands and meet his family, their relationship had become more intense. Even after Diane had returned to the United States and over to Michigan allow Jan to finish his studies at the University of Utrecht, they eventually married in 1967. After living in the Netherlands with Jan and his family for a few years, they both moved back to United States and over to Harbor Beach, Michigan. Jan had thought that because the Netherlands is so small where you could get anywhere within an hour, he looked at a map and thought that Mayville, Michigan (located at the base of the thumb) is near Ontario where his sister lives; which is somewhat true.
When Jan was in veterinary school in the Netherlands, his textbooks were printed in German because any material printed in Dutch was nonexistent.
Jan & Diane had lived in Harbor Beach, Michigan; where Jan had worked for Harbor Beach Veterinary Services prior to moving to Weidman, Michigan and founding their own veterinarian practice.
Photos of the exterior and parking lot of Jan & Diane’s veterinary office.
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The interior of Jan & Diane’s veterinary office is anodyne.
Jan is just as philosophical as Ray and our friend Dennis both are, and they each would talk about philosophical things. There are also a lot of similarities between Diane and Dennis’s 2nd wife Carolyn.
EPSON MFP image Jan & Diane, along with Shannon & Ray are also the right type of people to own Jeeps because they appreciate the history of Jeep, all the owners it’s had throughout the decades, and Jeeps having been used as a substitute for a farm tractor; unlike the relatives that we don’t like and don’t associate with and Carletta and her daughter. Also, unlike the relatives that we don’t like and don’t associate with, Carletta, and her daughter; Jan & Diane, along with Shannon & Ray are also the right type of people to own Land Rovers, Toyota Land Cruisers; and the Lexus version of the Toyota Land Cruiser because they appreciate the history of Land Rover and Toyota’s history with the Land Cruiser, Land Rovers also been used as a substitute for a farm tractor; and the amount of owners that Land Rover has had throughout the decades.
Jan owns a few ZJ Grand Cherokees as his company vehicles. Below is the famous introduction of the ZJ during the 1992 North American International Auto Show where then Chrysler chairman Bob Lutz drove the very first production ZJ straight off the assembly line at the plant on Jefferson Avenue in Detroit to Cobo Hall (where the North American International Auto Show has been held annually since 1965) and had crashed the vehicle through the architectural glass into the main lobby.
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Excerpt from Jan & Diane’s reality television show on the National Geographic cable channel that was created by their son Charles courtesy of the company based in Los Angeles he works for about Jan’s ZJ Grand Cherokee breaking down:
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Jan is also as fond of Caprice station wagons and Suburban as we are, and before Jan had Jeeps, he owned Caprice (and the car’s GM corporate siblings) and Crown Victoria/Grand Marquis station wagons. Jan & Diane have also owned 2 old, air-cooled Beetles-one while he and Diane had lived in the Netherlands together; and the other when they both lived in Harbor Beach, Michigan.
My paternal grandmother would talk to Jan about how much he has in common with my paternal grandfather. Such as both Jan and my paternal grandfather having easily adapted to American customs and had easily learned English. My paternal grandmother would talk to Jan about how my paternal grandparents had first met each other at a picnic across the International border in Windsor, Ontario, Canada; and the fact that she was able to communicate with him from the very beginning because she knew Polish, and she eventually taught him English after they got married.
Shannon would talk to Jan & Diane about herself being Ray’s 2nd wife, that Ray had always lived in Warren, Vermont with his first wife Constance Cappel and since Shannon herself has been married to Ray; they at first lived in Waitsfield until Ray had built their house in Warren, Vermont in 1981; and she, her siblings, her parents, and her grandmother had moved to Weston, Vermont after living in Troy, New York because the Buick dealership that her father had owned in Troy, New York had failed due to the oil crisis in 1973; and her father Whit had thought he’d be better off selling Real Estate in Vermont than selling cars in Troy, New York. And so Shannon and her family had moved to Weston, Vermont originally so that her father could sell Real Estate.
Shannon would talk to one of Jan & Diane’s associate veterinarians, Brenda Grettenberger about their shared interest in baking. Particularly about the apple pies they’ve both baked and the pumpkin pie and chocolate chip cookies that Brenda has baked. Many of the foods that Brenda bakes, she brings to the veterinary office for people to sample while placed on the table in the kitchen of the veterinary office.
Shannon also expresses her positive opinon to Jan, Diane; and to Brenda that she thinks the mixed clientele of large and small animals, consisting of a ratio of 50% each; by stating that Shannon personally thinks it’s very interesting.
Who knows that Mary Agnes “Mag” and Alison would talk to Jan & Diane about.
It is unknown as to what Marie “Mimi” and Mary Ann would talk to Jan & Diane about.
Joe would joke around and play satirical jokes on Jan, who can be as equally as funny. Martha would advise all of Jan & Diane’s female associate veterinarians and veterinarian technicians not to let a dog’s tail hit their stomachs or otherwise they’ll become pregnant.
For instance, Joe makes a satirical joke about his wife Martha of many years, stating that Jan should stick his hand with the plastic cover on his hand and arm into Martha’s vagina; Jan laughs and gets cracked up. Martha immediately gets angry and states that both God and Jesus will send both her husband Joe and Jan to hell. Martha also says in her infinite wisdom that Diane isn’t “Christian enough” to teach Sunday School.
Ann would talk to Jan & Diane about the fact that she had to wait 7 years after the dog that she & Paul had was euthanized before she could get another dog, and in comparison; their son Charles had to wait 8 years after his Great Dane named Mason had been euthanized before he could ever get another Great Dane. And like Ann herself, Charles spent years being emotional over the loss of his dog.
Margaret and both of Ann & Paul’s 2 daughters-Elizabeth and younger Ann would each be sitting on the residential-type furniture in the waiting room of Jan & Diane’s veterinary office. A client would bring in a cat that seemingly looks like a cat that Elizabeth used to have but had later wound up under the possession of Margaret & Ralph, and Margaret would say to Elizabeth ‘that looks like the cat that you used to have when you were 7 years old, that your parents (Ann & Paul) had found in their driveway one Halloween day at the house off of Square Lake Road and Middlebelt Road in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan’.
Rick Steves would talk to Jan about the 1600’s being Holland’s golden age, how the Netherlands has changed for the worse in the last quarter-century, such as their consenting of prostitutes; and the period of time in Dutch history when the country was ruled by the Habsburgs and known as the ‘Habsburg Netherlands’. Rick would also talk to Jan about several European languages and dialects-such as Emiliano-Romagnolo language, Ligurian language, Genoese dialect, Neapolitan language, Rioplatense Spanish (a version of Spanish spoken in the Buenos Aires region of Argentina); Frisian language, Limburgish language, Main-Franconian dialect, Riograndenser Hunsrückisch language (a variant of the German language spoken in parts of Brazil); the original Hunsrückisch dialect, Lombard language, Romansh, Friulian, Ladin, Arpetan, and Occitan languages; Walser language, the Lötschental dialect,
Jan would say to Rick that both he and his adopted son Charles both own and proudly wear wooden clogs. Rick would say wooden clogs, a quintessential feature of Dutch culture. Then Jan would say to Rick that both he and his adopted son Charles play chess on a chess set that I had made as a child in the Netherlands. Rick says oh do you? I play chess on a “life-sized” chess set while I’m in the Mosel Valley in Germany, while I’m in Spain; and in Provence while I’m in France.
Shari Lewis, her daughter Mallory, and her sister-in-law Judith Krantz would talk to Diane about how as Jewish people, they celebrate Hanukah and Passover and not Christmas and Easter; Shari Lewis and her daughter both being heavily involved with their synagogue located somewhere in the Los Angeles area in relation to them talking about Diane teaching Sunday School at hers and Jan’s church; and Shari Lewis’s father having been a rabbi, being one of the founding fathers of Yeshiva University in New York City. Then Shari Lewis would talk to Diane about her family history, by likely saying that her father was actually born in Lithuania, immigrated here to the United States through Ellis Island with his family; and had settled in the Bronx, where I was eventually born. Shari’s father’s side can actually be traced all the way back to the Kingdom of Prussia where and when the Germanic and Slavic cultures and languages intermingled with each other. That’s the reason as to why her real, non-professional last name; Hurwitz is German sounding. Then Shari Lewis would say her father’s mother was a Latvian national who, for whatever reason; had wound up in Lithuania and married her grandfather, therefore; contributing to the Latvian portion of her ancestry. Shari Lewis would go on to say that also contributing to the Latvian portion of her ancestry are several aunts & uncles from her father’s side who lived in Latvia, stayed behind in Europe when her father had immigrated here to the United States; and one of her uncles had actually died in Russia, and another one of her uncles had died in Israel. And then Shari Lewis would say that her great-grandparents from her mother’s side had immigrated here to the United States from Poland at some point in time, therefore; contributing to the Polish portion of her ancestry. Shari Lewis would then probably say that herfather had actually retired to Florida later in his life, and Florida is where he had passed away in 1981. He lived in a city in Florida that ironically, is also called Hollywood, Florida; and is just another one of a “million” bedroom communities located throughout this nation, but in this case; a suburb of Miami. And then Shari Lewis would say that she, Mallory, her husband; and her sister actually had to fly to Florida from California in order to conduct funerary services for him and that they had him buried at the Riverside Cemetery in Saddle Brook, New Jersey. Then Shari Lewis would go on to say after the conclusion of the funerary services they held for her father in Florida, they had his body transported to the cemetery in New Jersey. And then Shari Lewis would say that when her mother had died, they had her buried locally at a cemetery within the Los Angeles area.
Then Shari Lewis gets on the subject of her mother having been a music teacher, having worked at a school somewhere in New York City; and she was also music coordinator for the New York City Board of Education. Then Diane talks about how she used to be a Special Education teacher prior to when she had left her teaching job to work for her husband as his office manager, and that she holds a degree in Special Reading from Michigan State University.
Then Shari Lewis talks to Diane about her nephew and one of Judith’s sons Tony being a television producer, and her other nephew and Judith’s other son Nicholas at one time having been a television producer, but is now a financial advisor. Then Diane would say to Shari and to Judith that their son Charles is a television and movie producer. He went to college at the University Of Miami in Florida (not to be confused with Miami University in Ohio), received his degree in Communications; and he eventually moved to Los Angeles to pursue his career in the film and television industry. Judith Krantz would likely say he probably had to jump through the same hoops as my son Tony did in order to get into the film and television industry. Diane says Charles was actually an intern for Sydney Pollack. Judith Krantz would probably say oh really, it must have been an honor for your son to have interned for Sydney Pollack. Shari Lewis would then say that her sister, who is 9 years younger than I am; Barbara Hurwitz-O’Kun, is married to Lan O’Kun; best known for being a screenplay writer for the television show “The Love Boat”. My brother-in-law had also written the screenplays for Star Trek-The Next Generation, a 1980’s reincarnation of “The Twilight Zone”; and the cult science-fiction show Small Wonder, to name a few.
Diane would say to Shari Lewis, her daughter Mallory, and her sister-in-law Judith Krantz that Jan usually drives so fast on his way to a farm call that some people can’t catch up with him. Mallory would say how could he possibly drive so fast? Diane would say to Mallory that because they’re out in the country where speed limits are rarely enforced and so he can act as if he were an ambulance for a person in need of help. Judith Krantz would say I would obey all the rules for driving a car anywhere on the road if I were Jan. Shari Lewis would say don’t look at me for any comments; I’ve never driven a car a single day in my life. Being originally from New York City and now living in Los Angeles, I’ve always been dependent on Public Transportation for my entire life. Diane would probably say well, with the huge advent of public transportation of cities like those, and how crowded traffic always is in those places; there really isn’t much of a reason to own and drive a car in places like those.
When Diane would talk to Shari Lewis about she and Jan using a wood-burning stove to heat their house, Shari Lewis would say that it’s a good thing that they don’t utilize fossil fuels to heat their home.
Marc Brown would also probably talk to Jan about philosophical things.
Marc Brown would likely perceive Jan & Diane’s adopted son Charles to be as much of a fruitcake person as his son Tolon. Diane would likely say to Marc Brown and his wife Laurie that she & Jan had named Charles after Diane’s own father and had given Charles’s middle name Albert after one of Jan’s brothers who had died in a motorcycle accident somewhere in the Netherlands. This was evidently after we had adopted Charles at birth and had given him both his first and middle names upon adopting him. Then Diane would probably say to Marc & Laurie that all of hers and Jan’s children are adopted, with one of their daughters, Kathy also having been adopted at birth; and younger Diane right when she turned 18 and had legally become an adult after being in foster care for 10 years prior. Laurie would probably say that she thinks it’s virtuous that the both Jan & Diane had adopted all of their children rather than if they ever had any biological children because all of their ‘adopted’ children were most likely in need of homes at the time both Jan & Diane had adopted them. Then Diane would likely say that in the end, she and Jan had both just decided to adopt all of our children rather than have any biological children. Then Diane says that all of our adopted children have raised lambs, chickens, pigs, rabbits; and cows for the 4-H fair. Marc Brown says I think it generally; it was inimitable and unparalleled feat that your children have raised all of these animals for the 4-H fair; considering the broad spectrum of what most children do during their childhood and teenage years.
After Diane would say to Marc Brown’s sister Kim that their practice has many Amish clients and that there are many Amish farms around here, Kim would probably say the most concentrated Amish population near where I live in Nebraska is in Pawnee County. Then Kim would say there’s an ultraconservative group of Amish that once lived in Pennsylvania, had later settled in Nebraska and even later moved back to Pennsylvania colloquially titled the ‘Nebraska Amish’. They say that around 1880, a Bishop by the name of Yost H. Yoder had led 9 families from Juniata County, Pennsylvania; to Gosper County in south-central Nebraska, founding an Old Order settlement that would last until 1904, three years after the death of Bishop Yoder. Yoder had later in 1881 gone back to the Kishacoquillas Valley in Pennsylvania to assist a conservative Amish group. Yoder lived primarily in Nebraska, and the group was nicknamed the Nebraska Amish by others. Diane asks are there any major differences between the standard Amish and this ultraconservative group of Amish people? Kim would probably say something like they do not use motorized equipment or any indoor plumbing to any extent, and they wear very conservative clothing. The noticeable differences include the fact that the men do not wear suspenders and the women do not wear bonnets, but instead; the women wear black kerchiefs and flat straw hats. Then Kim would say other differences between the Nebraska Amish and the standard Amish are that they do not place screens on their doors or windows, men only wear white shirts, curtains are not used in homes, buggy tops must be white and can’t be any other color, men’s hair must be shoulder length and the men can’t wear their hair in any other way, a single lawn mower of any type isn’t allowed; and homes with projecting roofs are an absolute no-no. Diane would that sounds very stringent if you ask me.
We, of course; would bring all of these people to Jan & Diane’s veterinary office from our house in our diesel Suburban.
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In case you ever wondered what exactly the Bavarian Inn Restaurant in Frankenmuth, Michigan is; what the hype over the two Zehnder brothers owning both restaurants is all about, and what the competition between the two brothers owning both restaurants located directly across the street from each other is all about, here is a map of where in Frankenmuth, Michigan this restaurant is located and 360 degree views of the interior of this restaurant.
We did eat at the Bavarian Inn Restaurant once some time ago, but we never bring Rick Steves, Shannon, Ray, Shari Lewis, her daughter Mallory and her sister-in-law Judith Krantz; Marc Brown, his wife Laurie, and his 3 sisters Kim, Bonnie; and Coleen there.
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Foreward:
I am one who has always wanted to be obstinate and reactionary, to never go with the flow of life, accept life as it is, accept and adhere to social norms, I am autistic and proud of it, and “baggage” that comes with being autistic, what baggage? Furthermore, I’ve always wanted to also be recalcitrant, I won’t ever comprehend what is life and what isn’t; and I also won’t ever comprehend that life is tough. Last, I won’t ever adhere to the term “you can choose your friends, but you can’t choose your family”.
The bottom line is, I am an old soul who is antediluvian, headstrong, and averse; not thankful for having and receptive to some relatives that I have, will only allow a very select group of people to be in my social circle, and I won’t ever accept the fact that of these relatives that I do not like at all; will be the only family members who will be around once both of my parents are deceased.
I do not like my mother’s family at all; I never have wanted and will never want to be around them; I’ve always thought of them as Joe Averages that my parents have forced me to visit and mingle with, I’ve also thought of them as illegitimate family members, and I have always felt entitled to abrogate and rescind my own, personal associations with them. For instance-if my mother’s parents, the children of both of my mother’s brothers, my mother’s youngest brother, my mother’s eldest brother’s sister-in-law’s children; and my mother’s aunt and cousin were each hurt emotionally over my absence, my parents should be saying “too bad, so sad. We have to respect Matt’s wishes”. By now, you may figure that I choose to be an intractable and obdurate person with regards to this scenario.
My sister’s husband is also a relative that I don’t like, another family member that is illegitimate and another Joe Average that my parents have forced me to associate with, and I don’t care if my sister’s husband ever get hurt emotionally over my absence.
Because of how much of a social person Chris is in contrast to my parents and myself, Chris, Darlene, Carletta and her mother Bernice would associate with my mother’s family and never us because Chris would get along with my mother’s family better than my parents themselves ever had, and why they are Chris, Darlene, Carletta, and Bernice’s cup of tea more than they were ever mine and my parents’ cup of tea.
My father’s family consists of family members that I have always felt are treasured, legitimate family members who deserve to be venerated; have always felt being as comfortable around as both of my parents and Dennis, and have always felt that they know me nearly as well as both of my parents and Dennis.
Shari Lewis, Marc Brown; and Rick Steves are just a few more people that I will name as people that I feel comfortable around and know me very well.
Any time my parents talk about rekindling their associations with my mother’s entire family, it puts me into a tetchy position.
My father should be thinking all along, and saying to people that My father really should be saying my parents are not only being the people who know me best, and the people that I feel the utmost comfortable being around; but also my paternal grandmother, Mimi, Mary Ann and her 5 children, Uncle Joe, Margaret, Ann, Shari Lewis, and Marc Brown being the people who know me very well, and people who I also feel the utmost comfortable being around.
More people that I never have and never will have any tolerance for, and will not ever get along with are Ann Kolinski, Carolyn Armbruster, Carolyn Ann Tuzzo, Julie Stanaway, Carolyn Armbruster, Terri Dworkin, Amy Bunch, Mary Ellen Green, Carol Woodyard, Celia Socha, Julie Dean, Darlene Zimmerman, Steve Gerling; and Gilka Calazans-Paxton-all of whom were antipathetic towards me, and many of whom expected me to be independent and to take care of myself-and we’re talking independent and them being ecstatic enough for me to move out of the house right after I had graduated from High School. These people were also offended over the fact that I viewed them more a friend figure and not as a combination professional colleague/authority figure who were there for a reason none other than to do a job. Without a doubt were these teachers angry, and had vented their anger towards me whenever my parents had defended me against them. After reading this sentence, you may have guessed that I’ve chose to be mulish around these people.
Furthermore, Kim “Froggie” Proch, Pam Mott, Penny Orban, Sherry Misiak, Mary Behr; and Anne Waldowski were the School Bus drivers employed by the Warren Consolidated Schools school district were also antipathetic towards me, didn’t like me having a relationship with their boss John Roeck, were nonunderstanding of how emotionally important School Buses always have been and always will be to me; and they were also offended over the fact that I viewed them more a friend figure and not as a professional colleague who was there for a reason none other than to do a job; and that I certainly didn’t view the School Bus as a machine that is there to do a job. For your information, I am not the only person on the planet who has a desire to own or already owns a School Bus as a personal vehicle.
My parents should eternally be in this illusory and sphere where had to have Station Wagons, Suburbans, and Volkswagens/Audis, when we had considered buying the home in Romeo, Michigan that was built by the Fritz builders, and at other times-had also considered buying an old, small house in the Bungalow on the corner of a main road and a residential road in Sterling Heights, Michigan as an investment property; and my parents having decided not to purchase a farm near St. Clair City, Michigan (although the farmhouse was a gut job that was in dire need of a renovation).
And in keeping of this mentality-we really were supposed to move into with my paternal grandmother a 4,500 square feet with 4-5 bedrooms and 2 Full Bathrooms, 4 Quarter Bathrooms; and 2 Half Bathrooms on enough property where you would need a Bobcat with a mower and a snowblower attachment, a Sub-Compact Tractor (like an International Harvester Cub, a related Cub Cadet by IH Cub Lo-Boy, Kubota BX-Series, or a John Deere 1025); or a Compact Tractor (such as an International Harvester 140, International Harvester 274, Ford 1000, Kubota B-Series or L-Series; or a John Deere 2038, 3046, 4066, 5075; and 6135, my parents were have supposed to get reacquainted with all 5 of the Gilligan children earlier and if my mother had met them at an earlier time, my parents were supposed to have met Shannon’s husband Ray at an earlier time, my parents should have been closer to Margaret and Ann since an earlier time; Shannon and Ray would have supposed to introduce me to Marc Brown, Shari Lewis, her daughter Mallory, and her sister-in-law Judith Krantz. I really do think that my paternal grandmother could have met Rick Steves as a young adult, over time-they would have befriended each other and my paternal grandmother would love him as if he were her own son; my father would have met him some time ago as a friend of his mother’s, my paternal grandmother would have invited Rick Steves to travel from his hometown of Seattle, Washington to visit our house; my parents would have discovered how much we have in common amongst each other, and Rick’s nuclear family is literally a contemporary to our family.
An example of what would be normally going on in this house would be the following that is transcribed further: And while Chris would be associating with these people, my paternal grandmother working on her ceramic pieces, her dolls, and on her paintings in the craft room within our house; yours truly watching a 1980’s or early 1990’s CRT television tuned to WJBK-TV as a CBS affiliate and under the ownership of Storer Broadcasting, while it would be in the mid to high 30’s on this day in November, 1992 and the furnace switched on with the temperature set to 71 degrees Fahrenheit in the large house on a large amount of property that we and my paternal grandmother are living in together while watching a CBS News program showing footage of Elizabeth II stating to the that the year 1992 was an Annus horribilis (Latin term for horrible year) for her due to the separations and divorces of 3 of her children.
We’re talking the affairs with other people that both Charles and Diana were having, the phone calls that these other people that both Charles and Diana were affairious with that were recorded and eavesdropped by two different British newspapers and had published transcripts of these scandalous phone calls in their respective newspapers; Windsor Castle having caught fire due to a curtain having become attached to a spotlight, the African nation of Mauritius having become a Republic within the Commonwealth and by this time-was no longer a British Crown Dependency; and the tell-all biography book about Diana written by author Andrew Morton that had depicted what really goes on in the British monarchy, how unhappy Diana had always been over having to follow Royal protocol, how unhappy Diana had always been at the way Charles had been treating her; and how unhappy Diana had always been at the things that Charles had made her do that had made her uncomfortable, and this book having put out an ugly image towards the British monarchy, much to the dismay of Elizabeth II, Prince Phillip, Charles; Andrew regarding his ill-fated marriage with Sarah Ferguson, and also Princess Anne regarding her ill-fated marriage with her husband. The tell-all biography authored by Andrew Morton had reached the best-sellers list and had caused Morton to cry all the way to the bank.
My parents and I would also watch on our 1980’s or early 1990’s CRT television built into a wooden cabinet CBS’s coverage of NASCAR called by Vermont native Ken Squier on WJBK-TV as a CBS affiliate and under the ownership of Storer Broadcasting; and we would also watch WXYZ-TV whilst continuing to be owned and operated outright by ABC alongside WABC-TV in New York, KABC-TV in Los Angeles, KGO-TV in San Francisco, and WLS-TV in Chicago.
Payphones and brick style cellular phones continue to exist, computers remaining mostly a hobby and not an important factor to society, electronic devices as a whole still not being an important factor in day to day life.
Mallory was never supposed to perceive me as just another youngling who liked her mother Shari Lewis. Mallory was not only supposed to comprehend that her mother was, and still is one of the people that feel the utmost comfortable being around and people who know me pretty well, but she was also supposed to acknowledge Shannon and Ray’s association with both her mother and her aunt/well-regarded novelist Judith Krantz; and she was supposed to acknowledge that her mother and my paternal grandmother are both kindred spirits, they both share each other’s interest in craft and doll making, and pottery; myself showing her mother, all of the tricks that I’ve learned from her ,and my paternal grandmother, in turn-showing her the things she used to have her students at the City Parks and Recreation Department make; and last-both her mother and my paternal grandmother wearing graphical clothes during the late 1980’s and early 1990’s.
Like how Ann should never assume that I am just this distant cousin of hers, perceive it to be odd that this distant cousin of hers who is many, many years her junior to want to make contact with her; and perceive it to be anomalous that I am the old soul that I am, have as extensive knowledge of things were back in the day know that I actually do, have as extensive knowledge of the family as I actually do, and care about her parents Joe and Martha as much as I actually do.
Furthermore, Ann should never be allowed to say something along the line that all of the modern NASCAR drivers that have been present since 2001 all of whom have been the driving force towards the modernization and evolution of NASCAR, are closer in age to all of the younglings who are present and future potential fans of NASCAR, and are just like these potential fans where they are really conventional athletes who have been involved in sports all of their lives and not so much Race Car Drivers, as becoming a Race Car Driver was the only other thing that they had trained for their entire lives besides becoming a conventional athlete, otherwise-they would have to train for an entirely new and different line of work because they didn’t make the cut with regards to a specific sport. And these modern drivers like modern, weird music just like the young potential fans; and these modern drivers, like any other young person-are willing to contribute to what is wrong with modern society.
Ann’s daughters younger Ann and Elizabeth are also supposed to be understanding of how I know as much as I do about the family, and how important to me their grandparents Joe and Martha are.
Shannon is not working with me with my books, and is willing to publish them not out of kindness, politeness, and courtesy; it is because she understands that this is how I intend on making a living for the rest of my life, she understands that her family and my father’s family as a whole are the center of my universe; and she understands that her family are some of the very limited amount of people that I allow into my social circle. Each of Shannon’s 4 siblings are not allowed to think of me as just this distant cousin of theirs, and nor are her siblings ever allowed to perceive it to be odd that I-being many, many years their junior. Colin, alone; is not allowed perceive it to be anomalous that I am the old soul that I am, have as extensive knowledge of things were back in the day know that I actually do, have as extensive knowledge of the family as I actually do, and care about their grandparents Marie “Mimi” and Stan, and their parents Mary Ann and Whit as much as I actually do. Furthermore, Colin is also not allowed to perceive me as having a personality akin to those of each of his 3 own sons; and Colin and his wife Sheila should care more about what they drive than their sons being involved with sports and fitness.
My parents should have never been avant-garde and progressive over for my parents having gotten into minivans and minivan-like car-based Crossover Utility Vehicles, having gotten into going to Ride Parks, having gotten into owning Boats and Vacation Homes, encouraging their daughter to get into band and music and being intricate members of the High School’s Band Club, joining the Detroit Area Corvair Club; and associating with the relatives that I don’t like my parents purchasing the Oldsmobile version of the Chevrolet Venture and two Buick Rendezvous instead of buying Full-Size Station Wagons, Suburbans, and Full-Size vans any longer, and being unreceptive towards having anything to do with an RV at first. Without a doubt do my parents not have any right to freely purchase whatever vehicle they want with the money they have earned, and without any consideration on my part. I do not think that putting up with family members nor vehicles that I don’t like as requirements for living with my parents.
As my father is never allowed to put practicality first before even cost when it comes to obtaining a vehicle, my father is not allowed to ask “why should we spend any money on impractical vehicles”, with regards to my parents balking at ideas of maybe ever purchasing a Conversion Van, a Heavy-Duty Pickup Truck; and to a lesser extent-a Half-Ton Full-Size Pickup Truck.
In 2003, Mallory was supposed to have pondered over if we had allowed her mother Shari Lewis to utilize my paternal grandmother’s old house where both my father and Chris grew up in-that is located very near the Warren-Detroit City border and the Macomb-Wayne County border; as the on-location set for one of her mother’s newest Television shows-Lamb Chop’s Play Along. And if someone had pulled up in a YJ Jeep Wrangler in front of my paternal grandmother’s house while they would be filming an episode of Lamb Chop’s Play Along inside or outside the house.
You know at that moment-I would be pondering over the history of Jeep, as well as when the CJ/Wrangler had a PTO unit; and was utilized for Agricultural, Commercial, and Industrial uses.
Also, I would be thinking at this moment about this being a very pleasant moment at a time that was better than the late 1990’s or at any time during the 21st Century; my paternal grandparents having purchased the half acre property off of 8 Mile and Ryan Roads very near the Detroit City Proper in 1945, built that house, then added onto it once in the 1950’s and again in the late 1960’s-makes it perfect for filming on-location for one of Shari Lewis’s newest shows. This house is analogous to not only Shari Lewis and her husband Jeremy Tarcher’s house in the Los Angeles area, but is also nearly akin to the set that they had built at the Burnaby Studio in Burnaby, British Columbia where they normally film Lamb Chop’s Play Along. Furthermore, I would also be thinking at this time about how the Chrysler Corporation-upon purchasing AMC and Jeep just a few years earlier, could pepper the YJ Wrangler with colors from the K-Car and Dakota palettes as well as trim that was flashy and en vogue at this time to appeal to the younger people who could afford to buy it new, rather than those who appreciate the vehicle’s heritage and its usage for Agricultural, Commercial, and Industrial purposes.
And those who understand that AM General-formerly being the Military, Commercial, and Special Products Division of AMC prior to the spinoff to REMCO in the early 1980’s due to the parent company being majority owned by Renault at this time; should also be owning a Jeep.
AM General had ultimately won the contact by the United States Armed Forces whilst beating out the designs of 8 other companies to produce the HMMWV-the vehicle that would intentionally replace the military version of the Jeep; literally makes the HMMWV a “cousin once removed” to the CJ/Wrangler due to AM General having produced both the Military Jeep and the HMMWV, and the HMMWV having replaced both the Jeep and Military versions of Pickup Trucks for Tactical Combat Duty.
As I place large, American body-on-frame vehicles, and Volkswagens/Audis to be first-lined alongside my father’s family; I already have a 2-door Tahoe because it is emotionally important to me, and for these same emotional reasons; I also would like to have a Caprice Station Wagon, a Luxury Car such as a Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham Coupe or Sedan or a Lincoln Town Car; a Ford Bronco modified by Centurion Industries into a Suburban-type vehicle on a Ford F-350 Single-Rear-Wheel or Dual-Rear-Wheel chassis, a Volkswagen Corrado, a 2nd or 3rd generation Volkswagen Golf/Jetta/GTI, a T4 Volkswagen Transporter/EuroVan, a Type 183 Volkswagen Iltis Military Jeep-type vehicle (where the Quattro All-Wheel-Drive system had originated from), a C3 Audi 100/200/5000 Station Wagon, a Mercedes-Benz W201, W124, W126, W140, or R129; all for the same nihilist reasons on my parents’ part and emotional reasons on my part that I have my 2-door Tahoe.
Other vehicles that I would like to add to my personal collection, and have emotional attachments to are the S130, Z31, and Z32 Nissan Z-Car, the A70 Toyota Supra, the A10 and S20 Toyota MR2, the FC and FD Mazda RX-7; a personally-imported Japanese-spec Nissan R31 Skyline Station Wagon, C32 Laurel, Y30 Cedric/Gloria Station Wagon, E24 Urvan, D21 Diesel Crew Cab Mini-Pickup, 160, 260, or Y60 Patrol, Civilian Bus, Toyota Crown, H100 HiAce, N110 Diesel Crew Cab Mini-Pickup, N120 2-door Hi-Lux Surf/4Runner, Diesel J70 Land Cruiser Prado, J80 Diesel Land Cruiser, Coaster Bus, Space Arrow Bus, Blue Ribbon Bus; and S’Elega Bus.
I have had one nightmare where in an effort to stalk them, to find out what the heck is going on with us, and also out of Chris’s jealousy; Chris, along with my mother’s parents, brothers, their families, and in-laws each travel as a group to Vermont in a 15-passenger Full-Size Van that my mother’s eldest brother owns, with a Travel Trailer that he also owns in tow. Indeed, once they attend a racetrack at Ken Squier’s racetrack-Thunder Road in Barre, Vermont; and to attempt to visit Marie “Mimi” and her entire family.
It is our job to cosset Ken Squier and Marie’s “Mimi” entire family from my mother’s entire family.
During this entire trip, they make fools out of themselves when they find that Ken is not at his racetrack, that he is in fact on the road with CBS covering a NASCAR race-one of many that they have the rights to; and that Ken’s right hand man Tom Curley is currently running the racetrack, as is often the case due to Ken being a very busy man as a result of him not only running this racetrack, but also his family radio station, and him traveling around the country due to him being a part of the team for CBS’s NASCAR coverage.
They even tune into Ken’s radio station assigned to operate on 550 kilocycles, hoping that the station announces Ken’s whereabouts on the air; which they never do.
When they attempt to visit Mimi and her entire family, they knock on their doors; only to find that none of them are home. In fact, Mimi and her entire family are all presently at our homestead visiting with us and my paternal grandmother.
Chris’s mother/my paternal grandmother and her brother/my father are each quiet and reclusive towards Chris over the happenings and whereabouts of Mimi and Uncle Joe’s families, whenever they visit with us; and we visit with them. Too bad, so sad with regards to Chris’s jealousy.
Furthermore, I’ve also recently had a nightmare where Shari Lewis-a Jew; is scheduled to give a multi-denominational sermon along with her 3 puppets at a Catholic Church located somewhere in the Detroit area. And in attendance will be my mother’s entire family-brothers, children, parents, in-laws, aunt, cousins, and all; Bernice and her daughter Carletta, modern NASCAR drivers and ultra-religious people Carl Edwards, Matt Kenseth, and Elliott Sadler; and athletes and ultra-religious people such as NHL players Shane Doan, Darren McCarty, Martin LaPointe, and Steve Begin; NFL players Tom Brady and brothers Chris and Troy Maragos, and MLB players Brett Gardner and Steve Pearce.
As I have a right to cosset Shari Lewis, I would pick her up from the church in a Volkswagen Corrado, 2nd or 3rd Generation Golf/Jetta/GTI, or a Volkswagen Iltis Jeep-type military vehicle in order to protect her from speaking in front of these people, speed off from the church in the Volkswagen; the priest would say to the audience “due to the circumstances, the sermon with Shari Lewis has been canceled”. And I would transport Shari Lewis to the safety of our house. Just when we thought we would be safe in our house, my mother’s eldest brother’s daughter would trespass onto our property, and attempt to break open the glass on our four-pane sliding patio door leading to our backyard, and enter into our house. My paternal grandmother would then call the Police, and we would get the hell out of here in the Volkswagen, I would speed off to a safe place; and we wouldn’t return home until my mother’s eldest brother’s daughter had been arrested for breaking and entering.
Also, if you have been following this blog for a while, I don’t have any tolerance for the culture and customs of the 21st Century, the importance of Electronic Devices in everyday life during the 21st Century, and I don’t have any tolerance for Undercut haircuts, Buzzcut haircuts, Flattop haircuts, High & Tight Haircuts, Crewcut Haircuts, and I also don’t have any tolerance whatsoever for Tattoos and people dying their hair weird colors like purple, dark red, dark blue; or lime green. I think tattoos should cease to exist; and personally, I’d rather be discriminatory towards tattoos than gay people.
For more information on ours and Shannon & Ray’s association with Shari Lewis, please see this post:
Connection With Shari Lewis, Her Daughter; And Her Sister-In-Law
Blog Post Subject Matter:
There is a highly-coveted small town in Mid-Michigan that was originally settled by people from the Bavarian area of Germany, many of the descendants of the Bavarian settlers still reside their today; and the town remains true to it’s Bavarian roots. Called Frankenmuth, Michigan.
The town is famous for restaurants that serve their Chicken dinners and their traditional German cuisine. The Chicken dinners, and related food such as Chicken Tenders, and Chicken Thighs are served by 2 restaurants that are owned by brothers of the same family and are located across the street from each other-Zehnder’s and the Bavarian Inn.
The town became famous for their Chicken dinners when in 1927, the Zehnder family had purchased the Exchange Hotel and had converted it to a restaurant. The Zehnder family had also, at a later time; purchased the hotel located directly across the street called Fischer’s Hotel and had converted that building to the Bavarian Inn restaurant.
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My paternal grandmother, Joe, and Martha all liked eating there; as did also Marie “Mimi” and Mary Ann whenever they came to the Detroit area to visit.
This picture of my paternal grandmother, her daughter Chris; and her eldest sibling Marie “Mimi” was taken of them each sitting on a ledge directly across the street from the Bavarian Inn restaurant, with the other restaurant in plain sight when this picture was taken.
EPSON MFP image When we take Rick Steves to Zhender’s Restaurant in Frankenmuth, Michigan in the diesel Suburban; he compares the food to all that he’s ever experienced in the Bavarian area of Germany. He even buys himself a couple of German souvenirs while he’s in Frankenmuth, Michigan with us.
When we take Shari Lewis, her daughter Mallory, and her sister-in-law Judith Krantz; along with Shannon & Ray in the diesel Suburban to Zhender’s Restaurant in Frankenmuth, Michigan; Shari and Judith enjoy the restaurant’s traditional Chicken dinners and they along with Mallory each rave about how wonderful the food is. Shari and Mallory also talk to us about a restaurant in the Los Angeles area that’s also famous for their Chicken dinners that’s owned and operated by Knott’s Berry Farm. Shannon reminisces on when her grandmother Marie “Mimi” had brought her and both of her 2 sisters here when they all came to the Detroit area for Chris & Jim’s wedding in 1968.
When we take Marc Brown, his wife Laurie, and his 3 sisters Kim, Bonnie, and Colleen; in addition to Shannon & Ray either in the diesel Suburban or in our old, retired School Bus; Marc Brown and company all rave about the food, and Shannon reminisces further on when Marie “Mimi” had brought her and both of her sisters there. Marc Brown and company also purchase souvenirs and food-related items to prepare some of the food that Frankenmuth is famous for in their own homes at the store located in the basement of Zehnder’s restaurant.
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Although this is the newest example of the Ford B-Series chassis & cowl powered by the Cummins B-platform engine, this is just any example of a conventional style School Bus on the Ford B-Series chassis & cowl.
A bus like this, but older (from the early-mid 1980’s) with a Blue Bird, Carpenter; or Thomas body with the 370 or 429 V8 gasoline engines is what we’d buy specifically to transport my paternal grandmother, Marie “Mimi, Mary Ann and their family; and Joe, Martha; and their family to say, a restaurant; and for my mother to practice her bus driving skills during her off time in “Early Life And Continuous Livelihood”.
See earlier post https://mparij.wordpress.com/2015/11/03/public-surplus-auction-1471449/
1998 (98-BB) Ford Bluebird School Bus – Caro Community Schools Surplus
Source: Public Surplus: Auction #1473792
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Personally, I am not fond of the smaller School Buses built on the Full-Size Van chassis & cab and the GM/Workhorse ‘P’ Stripped Chassis. I like the heavier conventional and transit style School Buses much better.
In reality, John Roeck (who we’ll talk more about in another post) of the Warren Consolidated Schools school district in the Metropolitan Detroit area had bought smaller School Buses built on the GM/Workhorse P-Chassis. But in “Early Life And Continuous Livelihood”, my mother’s workplace instead buys 36 passenger conventional style School Buses on the Ford B-Series and International chassis & cowls in lieu of the smaller School Buses built on the GM/Workhorse P-Chassis.
Below is a promotional video for the GM P-Chassis:
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Videos of a few Blue Bird Mini-Birds built on the GM P-chassis:
Video of a Thomas Mighty Mite built on the GM P-chassis:
Video of a Carpenter Cadet built on the GM P-chassis:
Photos of a Superior Pacemaker built on the GM P-chassis:
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As another ode to CBS’s telecasts of NASCAR races, here are two videos of their coverage.
Reminiscence of the races that CBS had televised for the past 15 years from 1979-1994:
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Video of Vermont native Ken Squier bidding farewell on behalf of CBS to NASCAR upon losing the rights in 1999 and going into effect beginning in the 2001 season. In “Early Life And Continuous Livelihood”, CBS forevermore continues to have the rights to NASCAR and Ken Squier continues to announce races for CBS for a much longer period of time beyond the year 2000.
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At some point in time “Early Life And Continuous Livelihood”, we also buy an old, retired School Bus that would either be a Transit style like the one that’s the subject or an older gasoline-powered Conventional style School Bus on a Ford B-Series chassis & cowl or an International S-Series chassis & cowl. We would use the bus occasionally to transport ourselves, my paternal grandmother, Marie “Mimi”, Mary Ann & her children, Joe, Martha, Margaret, Ralph, Ann, Paul; and their 2 daughters all simultaneously whenever we go somewhere as a large family group (e.g. a restaurant) and we can all be transported in a single vehicle. Besides, it further fuels our frenzy for Class 6-8 vehicles, the air brakes, and the fundamentals of driving and operating them just like how the older Class 6 Box Truck already does; and it allows my mother to further hone her School Bus driving skills during her off-time.
We’d pick up a bus with a floorplan similar to the one in this Blog post with a multitude of wheelchair stations to accommodate the elderly and physically-challenged relatives that would have to be transported in wheelchairs while riding this bus-being my paternal Grandmother, Marie “Mimi”, Mary Ann, Joe; and Martha.
1988 BLUE BIRD WHEEL CHAIR BUS – Palo Verde Unified School District Surplus
Source: Public Surplus: Auction #1471449
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