I came back from a follow-up visit to the Surgeon that fixed my shoulder (6 weeks ago already) this afternoon, and to celebrate not having to have my arm in a sling and being able to drive again I took the van for a blast down to town to do some food shopping.

I parked right out front of the shops and a woman came out with her trolley full of groceries and looked at my van and said " Big old gas-guzzling V8!".
She then kept walking to her car, an almost new Mercedes. I asked her what her problem was and she said that cars with V8s should be banned and put off the road.

I then pointed out to her that her car had a supercharged V8 and probably weighed twice as much as my van, making it a bigger "gas guzzler" than my van with it's 253. She didn't even know what she was driving, but has been brainwashed to hate V8s! She stood and argued with me that her car didn't have a V8 as it was a Mercedes and they only make good, economical cars.

Unbelievable! Some people just will never understand......