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From: Sy.SLogin@CU20B.ARPA (Thomas De Bellis)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: Add a new verse -- Harry Chapin
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Date: Sun, 19-May-85 22:05:19 EDT
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Posted: Sun May 19 22:05:19 1985
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  Whatever Harry Chapin was, he certainly was not what I'd call a good
driver.  I lived near where he did in Huntington, Long Island and the
opinion of most people at my high school who knew about his driving
was that the guy was a maniac on wheels.  To relate a story:

  A friend of mine went riding his ten speed to go visit another
friend who happened to live very close to the Chapin's and nearly got
run over as Harry came flying out in his four wheel drive.  The house
has a rather long driveway and Harry was pretty predictable about
zooming out of there.

  This all happened back in 1975 (or around there, it's been
awhile...) so perhaps his driving habits changed; I would tend to
doubt this based on other things I had heard about him.  It's
difficult to argue these `what-if' points, however: if an 18-wheeler
goes out of control and you're nearby, the chances are that you are
going to cash in your chips no matter who is at fault, but one wonders
whether he would have been in that infortunate situation had he not
been such a chronic speedster.
					-- Tom De Bellis
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