Someone ran into my
daughter-in-law who lives in Columbia. The
insurance company totaled the car so she had to buy a new car. Since they have another car, I suggested
they buy a Ford F-150 pickup truck made right here in Kansas City and told her
two close friends of mine work there.
When she said they had decided to buy another car and were looking at a
Subaru, I then suggested a Buick LaCrosse or a Chevrolet Malibu made in
Kansas
City, Kansas. Both cars
have won all kinds of awards and are two of the best cars made in
America. We also
have several people from Oak Grove who work at the General Motors Fairfax
plant.
When I was growing up,
anything with “Made in Japan” on it meant it was cheap, inexpensive, and poor
quality. When I was in the Army, a
good friend of the family learned I was in
Japan, and sent me twenty dollars to buy a pair of
binoculars. I was putting them in a
box to send to him when they fell out and hit the floor. One of the big glass lenses fell off and
the black sleeve it was attached to sprang open. On the inside it said, “Schlitz
Beer”.
I found out one thing,
you cannot insult an owner of a foreign car. My wife Laura bought a Smart car, made
somewhere in Europe
by Mercedes Benz. She is always
wanting me to drive her to the doctor in the Smart car because she can’t get in
my four wheel drive F-150 very easily.
I tell her I hate to be seen driving anything but American made
vehicles. She then asks me how many
miles to the gallon I get with my Ford pickup. “I get over 40”, she
says.
My daughter in law
bought a Subaru manufactured in Japan. When I
told her it was made out of old beer cans, she replied, “I like companies who
practice conservation, particularly those that recycle
cans.”
Jack can be reached at
PO Box
40, Oak Grove, MO
64075 or jackremembers@aol.com. Visit
www.jackremembers.com
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