Miata Mailing List: September 1994, Message #1
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   From: Jonathan Webb 
Subject: Top 10 reasons for no top down
   Date: Thu, 1 Sep 1994 05:25:12 -0400

Alice, 

as a fellow SCOite miata driver I'm seriously dissapointed in
you finding such a list of excuses. Here in London, Autumn
(sorry fall) has just set in. It's down to about 10C, its
drizzling and the roads are wet. 

So I get rooster out of her garage where she lives with the hood
down, protected from bird guano, tree sap, weather and the local
hooligans. Leaving it down saves time in the morning as I'm
perpetually late for work and if I'd hurt my back - it's down
anyway. Shotings don't generally worry me in London because we
have gun control laws :-) and I sport a monk's tonsure of a
haircut so we can forget the state of my hair at work. As I
said, this morning its drizzling, so the hat and sunscreen are
rather unnecessary. She lives under a roof at work as well, so no 
need to put the hood up there either.

Now considering the conditions, in most cars you'd just drive to
work on a miserable day BUT NOT IN ROOSTER ! No, the roads are
damp and there are plenty of nice CORNERS on the way to work
where rooster and I can play sideslides with big grins.....

- Jonathan

    Purely my own speculation which includes some of the reasons
    why I don't have the top down as often as I'd like:

    10. Image (I don't get it - I think it looks better to have the top
        down)
    9.  Flimsy protection from drive-by shootings
    8.  Flimsy protection from car-jackings
    7.  Protects leather seats from bird sh*t
    6.  Protects *you* from bird sh*t
    5.  Gotta have neat hair when you arrive at work/wedding/etc.
    4.  Left the sunscreen/hat/etc. at home and it's too bright outside
    3.  Hurt your back so you can't even move it (unfortunately that's me)
    2.  Top was wet when I left for work this morning (happens to me a lot)
    1.  Chronically running late so no time to take it down (guilty!)


    As you can probably tell, I went from the lamest reason to probably
    the most realistic reasons that I could come up with.  Of course,
    none of the lame reasons apply to me.  Nah, never!  :-)  Well, maybe
    the leather seat one.  I also seem to have some kind of tree sap from
    the trees at work.

    I think we can debate this forever, but now you have a list of
    possible explanations!

    -alice
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    Alice T. Liu
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    The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc.
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