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To: elmatador who wrote (81553)	10/17/2011 1:27:15 PM
From: Cogito Ergo Sum	1 Recommendation Respond to of 217916

Language gap.. His actual words were just pass it along, in other words I want nothing for helping you out... but that you remember it and do a good turn for someone else in the future.. crazy American.. nice that there are some like that eh, probably a lot more than one thinks ;o) Pay it Forward comes from this movie imdb.com Premise being that good turns expand... If you live your life in constant fear, you are already dead... as normally any people do to somebody in trouble out of the urban/suburban areas That shouldn't be normal .. That's a problem with society... I'm not talking about a tow driver earning his living that way and such... When I was a kid in Montreal, maybe 11, we had a 3 day snow storm that shut down the city... Takes a LOT of snow to shut Montreal.. Anyway a local Dépanneur (convenience store) was price gouging 2 to three times normal prices.. folks remembered that.. he was boycotted mostly afterward and went out of business within a year...

To: elmatador who wrote (81553)	10/20/2011 6:30:56 PM
From: Snowshoe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217916

Monro Muffler CEO: Drivers Are Keeping Cars Longer blogs.wsj.com Gross says the average age of cars on the road is going up faster than ever as people look for ways to trim household budgets in a difficult economy. He says the age range of cars that come into the chain’s shops used to be about six to 10 years but in the past few years has widened to four to 12 years. He says this reflects not only longer ownership, but an earlier shift away from dealership service, which tends to be more expensive than other service outlets