The Draft Effect

["John Hofstetter" <hofs@domain.elided>]

As one who has drafted, and obviously from John L.'s comment been
drafted upon, I have a question.  Does anyone know what effect the
drafter has on the draftee? Does John L. owe me great amounts of fuel
money for having disrupted the patterns of vortices at the rear of my
trailer?
Well, even if he does, I forgive him all monies owed, because of my
great affection for him.

Several other people have now duplicated what used to happen to me,
which was that my 1210 Travelall got about a mile/gallon better gas
mileage pulling my trailer, than when not towing anything. Obviously,
this did not happen to John. 

As for my "sweet" wife, how come everybody who meets her, uses
adjectives like sweet and thoughtful for her, whereas the only
adjective regularly preceding my name is Ol'? And what's much worse,
how come everyone wonders what I ever did to deserve her?
The answer to that question so often posed, is that I stole her out of
her proverbial cradle. She would be the first to tell you that she was
too dumb to know the difference. Besides that, I was the local school
teacher making an even $300 a month gross, and compared to her family,
she thought I was rich. After 42 years, she's too used to me to want
to bother to change.
Ol' Saline
John Hofstetter
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From: jlandry@domain.elided (John A. Landry)
To: "John Hofstetter" <hofs@domain.elided>
Cc: ihc@domain.elided
Subject: Re: ihc-digest V6 #782
Date: Wed, Apr 28, 1999, 12:21 PM


The worst fuel economy was experienced when dragging the trailer up
steep
7% to 8% grades in second gear over the countless mountain passes
along the
way.  The best was when drafting at times behind John Hofstetter's
travel
trailer going downhill (for what seemed like hours) headed west into
Bakersfield, CA.  Probably had a tail wind too!

After 2200+ miles of highway robbery, I'm broke!  I haven't even tried
to
figure out how much I spent in total for gas on the trip... I really
don't
want to know!  But it was well worth it.  John Hofstetter and his
sweet
wife Wanda made me feel at home every inch of the way (thanks again
John &
Wanda).  I'm already counting the days until next year's trip.

Back to work...

John L.