PLAY IT SAFE?
Wes Seeliger, an Episcopal clergyman in Houston, wrote the following: “I love motorcycles. Not long ago I was in a Honda shop drooling over a 750, and lamenting the pay scale for parish priests. A 750, for the uninformed, is Honda’s most beautiful 4-cylinder bike. Its 68-horsepower engine is so large it sticks out on both sides of the bike. It will do a quarter-mile in 12 seconds, and will top out at over 125 miles per hour. The one at which I was looking was a dream in metallic gold, with all chrome trimmings. As it caught the late-afternoon sun, it looked like a neon sign on wheels.” Wes said his covetous fancy was abruptly interrupted by a hustler- type salesman. (Wes was wearing civilian clothes, not clericals.) The salesman said, “Some machine, ain’t it?” “Sure is!”, said Wes. The salesman said: “It’s not like driving a car. Go through town in a car and nobody notices. But on…
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