Dodge Durango Forum II

beyond Durango.. dang, this got long too..

over the past few weeks, with changes in life meaning that I'm no longer an employee, and my wife and I are now a "corporation", and yadda yadda.. my transportation situation situation may change over the next year due to various accounting concerns.. so, as I peered off into space considering what I might end up driving, my first thought was:

"Huh! what if it's not a durango? what about the DOC?"

(of course, my ever-helpful 13-year-old daughter said "Well! you could just keep it for when I go off to college! this car ROCKS!")

When i think back to the (unfortunately too few) DOC events I've participated in, I realize that maybe 25% of the time we talk about "durangos" - and even then it's part of finding new common ground.. most of the time we talked about kids, work, weather, horses, home maintenance, computers, cooking, ancestry, whatever.. but we didn't swear at each other, we didn't look down or up at each other, we didn't stereotype each other; we just "were there"..

ON the forum, it's much harder to walk the line, though, and discuss things "non-durango" without stepping on multiple toes.. I hope we continue to do our best in this area, because the non-durango topics sometimes are far more interesting or important.. I don't want to go down the road of "family values", because that term has implications that aren't always positive .. I guess it's more "people I/we care about values" .. I enjoy sharing in the good times, and listening/supporting in the bad times, without regard to religious/social/ethnic/regional/sexual/automotive/etc backgrounds and views.. we can all individually choose to not participate in a discussion, but I'd like to continue to be able to recommend this forum to *anybody* without worrying about offending them..

on another note, the pool of technical and operational knowledge is kind of interesting as well.. It's really nice to be able to ask a question without seventeen replies that basically say "Yeew eeediot!" .. that is clearly part of the "glue" holding us together..

None of the other vehicles currently on my radar screen can boast of such a club..

...tom

Wed Jan 31