Chicagoland Meetup :: Early 2006

Anyone wanna take bets on how nuts its driving Tony cause we're down to less than a day?

I'm looking forward to this guys!

 

Tony,
Getting to sleep isn't the problem. It's when you wake up in the middle of the night and aren't able to get back to sleep.
I hope you guys (and gals) have a great meet up today.
Looks like you will have some of the same rain as us. (Rain in January?!) Stay dry and have fun!

 

Hands Across The Sea from the Bay Area chapter. May you have more warm bodies than we did. :lol:

 

Well this one went off ok. Tony please tell your wife thank you. Thanks for all of the help fire engineer. Thanks to all of you.

Bob Parrot Ladies Dad

 

Bob Who?

Wow! Can't believe I actually saw a post from him. hehe (inside joke) You had to be at the meeting to understand.

Had a wonderful time at todays meeting. Saw and met many good people who I have seen post here online. Good to meet you all!!!!

Was absolutely entrawled with the conversation we had at the late luncheon table about Birds. ParrotLady and her dad truly had some great stores about their experiences they have had. Some hard to believe but still consider true. Amazing stuff.

I also now understand the whole reason behind installing the engine block heater and the perils of installing EV switch. (yet another insider from being there) No comment. hehe Hope all went ok Tony.

This trip to this user group meeting represented the first long trip (about 120 miles) I made with my new 2006 and I felt so special showing it off for everyone to see.

Thanks to everyone for making this a special occasion. Wayne thank you for the great info you shared with us on paper.

 

Great... I now gotta put up with him here too!

Be nice or I'm sending you to the basement again Dad!

 

Of course, Tony, as we have experimented with our own. We'll show you more next time, ok? You know what we should do...

 

Wow, now that was fun! It was great to meet you all and finally put some faces with the screen names!

The pictures are up, along with my witty commentary:
http://homepage.mac.com/macprince/priuschat/priuschat.html

Thanks, Tony, it was a blast! Well worth the drive!

MacPrince (Dan)

P.S.- Tony, do I need to give you a whistle or a gong or something to get our attention next time? 'because there are far better ways.

 

Thank you all for posting, and, MacPrince, for the really really great (NON-POSED) pics. Youse guys seem to have the most success with your meetups, although now maybe I shouldn't feel so bad about the 6-8 we were only able to get to come to our SF Bay dealie.

Good to put names with faces, too. Parrot lady surprised me. I think I have a mild crush on her. 360 and Tony look almost exactly as I pictured them. I think I have a mild crush on Tony, too---I actually resemble him facially, only I'm more wrinkly (64 vs. 35). :lol: B)

 

Tony, No I couldn't make it. I was thinking the meeting was on a Sunday and then realized after looking at the calendar it was on a Saturday. Saturdays don't work for me at all. I'm bummed out I couldn't come. Maybe the next meeting will be on another day besides Saturday. Hopefully.

I'm glad you all had fun and were able to also get some stuff done to your cars!

Tracy

 

well I did it... I ripped out my back seat yesterday to clean it up a bit and also to move the dining room set (again).... The neighbors asked me what I had in my hands, and then whether or not my car should be able to do that.

Brought in my back seat and my mom freaked out...

I got a good laugh. Thanks for showing me how to do that guys!

 

Maybe I left the meeting too early. I can't think of a reason I'd need to take the seat out though. A lot fits with it just folded down and if I need more space its fairly easy for me to borrow a minivan. It must be interesting to see a prius without the back seat, but I'm glad mine wasn't the demo.

I had a good time at the meeting. It was good to meet new people and to see the ones I had already met again.


Tony- I'm glad everything worked out with the EV button. But next time no naps during the meeting.

 

Yeah, well a second "somebody" suggested the Saturday of this non-NFL weekend instead of the Sunday. Maybe if the second "somebody" hadn't been anxious to put in the EV button, they would have thought of Sunday?

It was entertaining though to terrify Tony. "Hey look Tony, here's what your car looks like without the backseat in it." "Hey Tony, here's what's under your dash." "Hey Tony, here's how the MFD looks when taken from where it belongs."

Oh boy, good times. Ironically, he was fine during all that. :mellow:

 

Tony,

As I said in my PM to you last week, I'm hoping for a May meetup at the AFV Event at Route 66 Raceway. Has this been finalized yet or too early.

Mike