Mobile Video
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In 1977, rather than repair the air conditioning system in my VW bus, I purchased a late 1996 GM conversion van. It had sat on the dealer’s lot for several months, and he wanted to unload it. A beautiful critter that wouldn’t fit in my garage had, in addition to the mood lighting, a VCR player and a television set.
Introduction to the Van and Zipper
The first thing we noticed when we brought the van home was that our dog, Zipper, just loved it. I have no objection to leaving certain kids behind. The zipper was one of the reasons we had to have a van. He was a big Labrador retriever. The other reason was that my wife enjoys plants. She started the program No Plant Left Behind.
No Dog Left Behind
Our son, Jimmy, immediately slapped a tape in the VCR player and sat in the back watching Tobruk. Arthur Heller directed the movi, and it starred Rock Hudson. Here is the plot: “September 1942 – With Erwin Rommel’s Afrika Korps on the march through Egypt, a British special forces unit, composed of German Jews who serve with the British despite the mutual resentment between both, kidnap a Canadian officer who is an expert topographer and who is held prisoner by the Vichy French in Algeria. The officer, Donald Craig, must negotiate a company of British and German-Jewish commandos through 800 miles of the Sahara to aid a pending amphibious landing against Tobruk’s massive fuel storage base – a mission that sees one impediment after another, and which discovers an undetected German armored force ready to win the battle of Egypt.”
The Van’s Features and Movie Time
Listening to he ssoundtrackI realized that Jimmy had been driving for about five years and had a valid New Jersey driving license. After some persuasion Jim,my was driving and I was back watching Tobruk. When we got to Arizona, I bought Jimmy a Nissan pickup and my wife a Toyota Corolla. He took off for Utah to go to college. For that reason, since then, I’ve never sat in the back of my van and watched a movie. Jimmie came back once and traded his pickup for my wife’s Corolla. We still have the pickup, and Jimmie still has the Corolla. He didn’t stay long enough so that we could take a trip and I could watch a movie in the back of my van.
Grandkids, Movies, and Fishing Trips
I’m not saying that my van’s video system is not used. I have heard the soundtrack of a dozen movies that I have not seen. When the kids get out of the car, they leave everything on and the sun shades down.
I mean it. I’m tired of them catching all the fish while I operate my “pole and reel repair shop” and bait the hooks for the girls. So my suggestion for selection of a video system is this: Don’t buy one if you have grandkids. It’s cheaper to give them a coloring book and a box of crayons.