In a message dated 98-05-05 11:27:51 EDT, you write:

> I think there is a "scruffy
>  quotient" we miss if we spend too much time in manicured environments.

Reminds me of my favorite hardware stores, most of them relegated to memory.
It is the sense of adventure in finding something on the back side of a shelf
in a dark corner that the owner put there 30 years ago and actually knowing
what you have found.

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