People...this is why we own Dodge Dakota's...GREAT STORY JACK!
>From: Jack Brown <jbrown@oz.net>
>Reply-To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net
>To: <dakota-truck@buffnet.net>
>Subject: DML: Phone call that made me feel good
>Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 00:18:16 -0700
>
>Thought I'd share this with the list. Turns out a Dakota can make people
>really happy.
>
>In 1993, when transferring from Orlando to Idaho Falls for the Navy, I
>stopped to visit my favorite aunt in Kansas. I had owned my Dak for five
>months or so at the time.
>
>My aunt really liked my truck. Many times after that visit, she asked me
>if
>I still had it. She even asked about it when I was in Wichita for work
>earlier this year and got a day off to go visit her.
>
>My aunt has not had an easy life. Problems with her kids for years.
>Health
>difficulties. Money problems. But, she is one of the nicest people you'll
>ever meet.
>
>Anyway. She called me this evening. Turns out she found a great deal on a
>97 Dakota. 5 spd, 4x2, 2.5L. (She really doesn't need a powerhouse....)
>Apparently, it's in great shape and was being sold by a farmer who had too
>many cars now that his kids had all moved out. She had a mechanically apt
>friend with her to make sure it was a good vehicle.
>
>I haven't heard my aunt that happy and excited about anything in years if
>not decades. I mean, I like my Dakota and plan to get a new one soon, but
>she was _excited_. There's something special about a truck that can bring
>a
>real ray of happiness into someone's life.
>
>Maybe I'm being a little sentimental, but I'm just glad to hear my aunt
>that
>happy about something....
>
>
>--
>jbrown@oz.net - www.oz.net/~jbrown
>'93 Sport, 4x2, 3.9, 5spd, blue
>http://www.twistedbits.net/WWWProfile/dakota/Jcz@AN@b4owxo
>
>
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