Just a slight digression away from the story...
....but what's another one gonna hurt. I remembered this when thinking about Debbie going to school at TWU and have to tell it.
Southwest Airlines had started up not long before and we could fly roundtrip from Dallas to Corpus for only $40.00. We weren't able to do much testing with me 8 hours away, so sometimes we fly home for the weekend to test. One weekend prior to one of the upcoming races I flew in without Debbie. She had a lab assignment over the weekend.
One six week period, TWU was engaged in a "Nitrogen Balance Study" grant. It had to do with tests on the human body and nutrition, etc. while eating products made from cotton seed meal. Cotton seed had some nutritious components including protein, and scientists are always looking for ways to feed the world with byproducts. There were 15 or 20 paid volunteers, mostly students I think. They had to eat stuff made out of cotton seed all three meals and nothing else (maybe some veggies or so--can't remember) There were hamburger type patties made of it. Bread, muffins, cookies, doughnuts... all kinds of things. I think there may have even been something like a milkshake made from the stuff.
Once a week, these volunteers had to bring a stool of their feces in to be analyzed for the "Nitrogen Balance Study". They would take each person's stool individually and put it in a blender to homogonize it before they ran the tests. When I went home to test, Debbie had to stay for this lab. Now, when Debbie and I were first married, she was very quiet. She was like a little doe in the forest. So one of our friends saw me at my Dad's house and asked "Where's Debbie?" "She's up at TWU stirring up a bunch of S#*T" was my truthful response:rolleyes: ;) . That persons eyes bugged out, jaw dropped and said "Debbie?":D
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ACM40ff Marine Spark Plugs
Dean, I got your plugs. Many thanks. I will be proud to have something from the Dean Wilson family as part of the display in my miniature boat racing museum. I had a job up two days after I got the plugs that was only 30 or 40 miles from Joe's auto parts store. I decided to take them to Joe's for him to hold while I took a photo of them. After all, what better than to use my best friend and former pit man who has been in the parts business all his life. Unfortunately, I still have problems with accidentally punching a wrong button then not knowing how to get back to normal. Anyway, I could not get this to focus up close, or even at this distance.
ADD: On the way to Joe's store, I was kindof lost with his directions. My cell phone quit and my map had to be looked at on 3 separate pages because where I was going stopped and started with only an inch or two travel on each page. I was about to run out of gas, and no stations in sight. So when I passed a fine looking tunnel boat with Custom something painted on the sign, I didn't stop. Joe told me it was the Schubert's. Was a fine looking rig.
One More ADD: I've been going to Joe's shop at the same location since 1968.
I asked him how long it has been there. That is a sore subject with Joe. Him and his dad Roland opened Stafford Auto Supply in 1965. They were moving in during the weekend of the NOA World Championships at Alexandria. That was the ONLY Pro race at Alexandria that Joe has ever missed.
One final ADD. After I took the pics of Joe holding the sparkplugs, his memory kicked into gear and he took about 3 steps back and pulled two packs of ACM40FFG plugs off a parts shelf. He forgot he had 23 brand new ones in stock. The difference between the M40FF and M40FFG is that the first has an extended tip and the other is a recessed pin type electrode.