No problem, there P76, you could never derail a thread of mine.
My hat's off to you helping a less fortunate citizen do some curbco. There's a young guy that works at a discount store here in bedroom town that I'd love to buy a decent dependable car for him to get to work. I heard him talking a few weeks ago about being sort of stranded by his "wheels" not working (I think he commutes into bedroom town to work) and his manager told him tough teet, get to work. I stopped in there tonight and asked him if his car was working and he said yes and pointed to an about an '83 Bonneville that should have been a movie prop. I'd love someday to totally surprise a kid like that (I like his work ethic, been in that store in the evnings more than once) and drop a 2-3 grand in buying someone like that a dependable old ride. Not trying to be a hero or stroke my ego, just do something totally unexpected and nice for someone. Maybe someday.
P76- I think you'd be surprised how many "indentured servants" we have in this state. The ag economy is tight margins and generally runs on economies of scale where low profit per unit of production only makes a middle-class or "better" lifestyle up by sheer volume. A guy or family gets across the border and ends up in some isolated small town (or out on the farm) and has no documentation so his boss basically has him by the short hairs (of course the illegal usually doesn't know that if boss turns the illegal in, boss is admitting guilt in hiring him in the first place). Boss keeps his working and out of town and maybe the foreman takes the "boys" in somewhere every couple of weeks to "blow off some steam" in a bar where English isn't spoken. In your case, that ride would probably be a couple of hours to get done. I suppose a life like that is better then gang members threatening to kill you or your family but its not exactly free either. We as a society really don't know what a lot of hired farm labor would go for at an open hourly rate because there's always been, at least in other parts of the country, the safety switch that "let's hire an illegal to do it, they won't complain about things." Cheap, "quiet" labor is preferred. I don't know what the answer is P76, but "Toto, we're not in Kansas anymore..."
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