Anyway, here's Ted, my car guy -- back after shopping or doing counseling work with his church group rescuing strippers from sin at one of the local strip clubs, the "Mons Venus" (I think he said). I didn't know any of this until he explained what was up as he washed the T-Bird. He had 2 young women he just evangelized on this day who want to make the jump to a more godly, sinless existence. One declared she would give up the $25,000 wages of sin she'd been offered to pose in Playboy magazine. Since there are so many girls doing drugs & casual sex in the stripper lifestyle, I'm glad for his success. I've noticed that many good-looking girls in this area seem to get into bartending or serving drinks & food immediately after high school, and to make ends meet living on their own (with no education or credentials except bartending experience), they often turn into the proverbial "party girls" going out nightly after they get off work between 9PM and 2AM! So many places here have "Ladies' Nights" with free drinks or 2-4-1 specials for women, I now know why I see a lot of the girls I care about developing dysfunctional drinking habits in their early 20's! Beautiful in earlier calendar pictorials, they lost their stunning looks by age 26 from profligate use of sex, alcohol, tobacco, and drugs. (So many treat "weed" as if it's not a drug, OMFG! DUH!) Oh, and EVERYONE has a 21-I.D. long before they're 21--they get served easily cuz the tourist-based economy encourages lax enforcement to produce good business profit. (I was surprised that servers & bartenders in Florida do not need to be 21 to make or serve alcoholic drinks!) No WONDER there's a fucking drinking problem in this young age group. I see very few with serious life or academic goals and, as a consequence, their predominant belief-system is Hedonism!
Oh, before I got off on that rant, I was going to tell you Ted WAS a Godsend -- unexpectedly, he cleaned the remaining 40% of the T-Bird while I continued to recover. In all fairness, it was much cooler by the time he got home. Actually, knowledgeable Floridians schedule their heavier work out-of-doors for the cooler morning and evening hours. I gotta remember that -- I've lived in Florida for 28 years now {OMG!} and I STILL don't feel like a Floridian. But most of the people here now also came from somewhere else -- I actually fit right in, that way!Now, the 2nd & 3rd pics just show the classic lines of this clean, 1959 Ford Thunderbird! After we got it all cleaned up, I could see why Ted prefers it "all original." I'm tempted to leave it in its original white paint after we sandblast the little bit of rust off all the metal edges. I can see where it retains its classic original design
beauty that way, and would be worth far more $$ than if I "trick it out" in a candy-apple red like I've always wanted in a jazzy car I own. But I'm not doing this to resell it -- I'm fixing it up so my older son can inherit it! LOL! Well, I DO want to drive it around and turn a few heads and give some pretty ladies rides in it out to our excellent beaches! A couple WingHouse hotties already want to have a professional photo shoot as they lie all over My Bird! Hot Damn! How about YOU, Maeve? You check in here, yet? Wanna lay out at the beach with my Bird? ;-) We have no oil yet anywhere near Clearwater Beach (Gulf Coast/ Tampa Bay area) so hurry cuz it HAS reached NW Florida! (No oil but you might feel some wetness.)
PS: Won't be able to submit another post for a couple weeks as I'm taking my old Gateway back in for a Hard Transplant (DRIVE, that is).
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