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I found this somewhere and thought the BCF might be amused by it too.
But some of the steps are missing... I wonder what they were....
Healeyholics Anonymous
You've made great progress, let's revisit the 12 step recovery program for Healeyholics Anonymous:
Step 1: Denial. You deny the fact that an Austin Healey is hot, sweaty, gas hogging, and obsolete, and are convinced that it can beat a 2002 Hyundai Sonata around the Sears Point Raceway. You deny to every rubbernecker that the thing breaks down all the time.
Step 2: Acceptance. Learn to accept the dependency and emotional or psychiatric illness of obsolete car ownership, and accept the need to develop and practice a personal program for fixing your Healey without pissing off the wife or looting the kids' college funds.
Step 3: Help. Choose a source of help and decide to use that source of help for fixing your Healey. That source of help may be referred to as a "Higher Power" or any other name that feels comfortable, but the "healey email forum" is probably sufficient.
Step 5: Identify Assets and Liabilities. Your Healey is probably a pretty good asset. The liability is your unwillingness to sell it, even if you are 4 months behind on your mortgage payments.
Step 6: Change. Work with a personal source of help (Higher Power) to strengthen the personal assets for your Healey by fixing it up per Factory Spec and ignore the fact that you'll never sell your Healey, unless you intend to buy a better Healey for cheaper of course, which will probably be never.
Step 7: Mend Relationships. Identify people who have been negatively affected by your Healey Disorder (the wife), work to mend those relationships. The best way to do this is to take her for a nice long drive (without the kids) and attempt some version of contortionist 'what-not' in the back seat (if you have a 2+2 of course).
Step 8: Maintain the Healey and Prevent Relapse. Continue to fix the Healey (even if it doesn't need any more fixing) and remove liabilities that pose a risk by continuing to work with a personal source of help (Higher Power or "healey email forum" ).
Step 9: Help Others: Share with others who experience this maniacal disorder by posting useless information about which BSF threaded 4-branched "whats-it" attaches with what UNF castle-nut "doohickey" to run the hydraulic switch "what-not" because "that's the way the factory did it." Advise others against putting in the 49 cent JCWhitney plastic replacement and blow $356 in parts to install the 4-branched "Trafficator bushing relay (part No. AEC4599885X)" that costs $356.
What's step 4? ...and it looks like they never got to steps 10, 11 or 12....
But some of the steps are missing... I wonder what they were....
Healeyholics Anonymous
You've made great progress, let's revisit the 12 step recovery program for Healeyholics Anonymous:
Step 1: Denial. You deny the fact that an Austin Healey is hot, sweaty, gas hogging, and obsolete, and are convinced that it can beat a 2002 Hyundai Sonata around the Sears Point Raceway. You deny to every rubbernecker that the thing breaks down all the time.
Step 2: Acceptance. Learn to accept the dependency and emotional or psychiatric illness of obsolete car ownership, and accept the need to develop and practice a personal program for fixing your Healey without pissing off the wife or looting the kids' college funds.
Step 3: Help. Choose a source of help and decide to use that source of help for fixing your Healey. That source of help may be referred to as a "Higher Power" or any other name that feels comfortable, but the "healey email forum" is probably sufficient.
Step 5: Identify Assets and Liabilities. Your Healey is probably a pretty good asset. The liability is your unwillingness to sell it, even if you are 4 months behind on your mortgage payments.
Step 6: Change. Work with a personal source of help (Higher Power) to strengthen the personal assets for your Healey by fixing it up per Factory Spec and ignore the fact that you'll never sell your Healey, unless you intend to buy a better Healey for cheaper of course, which will probably be never.
Step 7: Mend Relationships. Identify people who have been negatively affected by your Healey Disorder (the wife), work to mend those relationships. The best way to do this is to take her for a nice long drive (without the kids) and attempt some version of contortionist 'what-not' in the back seat (if you have a 2+2 of course).
Step 8: Maintain the Healey and Prevent Relapse. Continue to fix the Healey (even if it doesn't need any more fixing) and remove liabilities that pose a risk by continuing to work with a personal source of help (Higher Power or "healey email forum" ).
Step 9: Help Others: Share with others who experience this maniacal disorder by posting useless information about which BSF threaded 4-branched "whats-it" attaches with what UNF castle-nut "doohickey" to run the hydraulic switch "what-not" because "that's the way the factory did it." Advise others against putting in the 49 cent JCWhitney plastic replacement and blow $356 in parts to install the 4-branched "Trafficator bushing relay (part No. AEC4599885X)" that costs $356.
What's step 4? ...and it looks like they never got to steps 10, 11 or 12....