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Katie G--where did you get the window cling of the blue cross that says Slava Isusu Christu! Slava Na Viki? I agree, your car rocks. I want to buy a half dozen. The only window clings I have are two Macintosh Apples and a cockroach window cling my 9 year old son put up a few years ago!

This is a wonderful thread--positive, imaginative, funny, thoughtful and, not to mention, multi-generational! Does it get any better than this? I don't think so!

Isn't religion a wonderfully uniting thing?

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In both our cars we have a tiny 2x2 icon of the Theotokos. I also carry a medal with the relics of Blessed Josaphata SSMI and a rosary and chotki. My daughter also carries a rosary from WYD in her knapsack. The only window clings that we have are tryzubs , but I would also be insterested in getting - the window cling of the blue cross that says Slava Isusu Christu! Slava Na Viki? that Katie G has.

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In my car:
A paper icon - Our Lady of Tenderness
Holy Cards - Our Lady of Fatima and Our Lady of Lourdes
Books: The Three Ways of Mental Pray, 12 Steps to Holiness, The Dogma of Hell plus How to Avoid Hell, The Ladder of Divine Ascent, and Unseen Warfare.

On my person: Crucifix, Rosary, Metal of the Immaculate Conception (Miracouls Metal), St. Michael the Archangel and a brown scapular.

My car was broken into and my Byzantine baptismal cross stolen, my 1st ever rosary and my 1st brown scapular that I used to wear only when praying. Although I mourn the lost of these things which were so dear to me, I figure the people who stole from me must have desperately needed prayer - so now I try to be their intercessor.

Can one have too many religious items in there car? (Well, maybe I do:) )

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Sorry: I don't own a car! Haven't owned one for many years now.

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Originally Posted by Serge Keleher
Sorry: I don't own a car! Haven't owned one for many years now.

Fr. Serge

I fondly remember the days of living in cities where I could use my legs, as God intended, for transport, instead of wheels!

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I find two wheels or two legs work well, but I'd prefer a horse. Maybe if I ever move to the countryside....

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My city sprawls all over the place. I can drive west for 22 miles and barely reach the city limits, and that's from the center of the city. It's as bad or worse in every other direction. We do have a bus company, but there are places it doesn't serve. In my area, no car means no going anywhere.

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Originally Posted by byzanTN
In my area, no car means no going anywhere.

Unfortunately, that is the way it is in most places in the U.S. these days...only New York City has a great public transportation network. Also, walking gets you places quickly in NY. I don't know of many other cities in the U.S. like this.

Many European cities are quite easy to live in without ever needing your own car.

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Dear Alice,

I recall how everyone would laugh at New Yorkers, because they were the only people that didn't know how to drive. Few had cars in those days, and even probably today. There's no reason for them. With all the traffic, walkings faster. Besides, renting a parking space, probably costs as much as an apartment in another town.

Which reminds me! I just heard in Hong Konk, buying a parking space could run over a million. Wow! shocked

As for my family, we all began driving at a very young age, (rare for New Yorkers), but we had the oportunity. We lived in the mountains in the summer. Polio was rampant then, sick and if one could get out of the city, they did...and mighty fast.

God Bless,

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Dear Alice,

You have my sympathy. I wouldn't begin to know how to use my legs as wheels!

Dear Zenovia - I remember those days of the annual polio panic - and the gratitude to Almighty God when the Salk vaccine came along.

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A cross and a komboloi.

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Originally Posted by Zenovia
As for my family, we all began driving at a very young age, (rare for New Yorkers), but we had the oportunity.

Being raised in Brooklyn, I started driving at 14. I first learned in a UPS truck. Then in a service station driving customers' cars home to them. Then was my ice cream truck. I finally got my license in the Air Force when I was 17.

Some of us city New Yorkers also had the opportunity to drive early, and no driver's ed classes.

I didn't know that anyone living North of the Bronx wasn't a New Yorker.

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I didn't know that anyone living North of the Bronx wasn't a New Yorker

HUH?!?

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Dear Alice,

You have my sympathy. I wouldn't begin to know how to use my legs as wheels!

Dear Father,

HA HA, very funny!!! wink grin wink

Regards,
Alice smile

(I bet you got in trouble more than once in elementary school for your teasing)! wink

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Originally Posted by Zenovia
Dear Alice,

x x x .

Which reminds me! I just heard in Hong Konk, buying a parking space could run over a million. Wow! shocked

x x x .

God Bless,

Zenovia

You probably knew also that Hong Kong has the most cars per square mile in the whole wide world! In fact, there are more Rolls Royce cars in Hong Kong than in any country, the UK included! It was a small city-State crammed with the very rich and the very poor people during the British overlordship as it is now as a "self-governing province" of China.

Hong Kong used to be the "financial center of Asia," but it is now rivalled by Tokyo, Singapore, and the resurgent City of Shanghai in mainland China!

Because of this, Hong Kong could have changed its name to "Honk Honk!" biggrin

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