[cmperry4]

I know now my girlfriend Mary has spent far too much time hanging around with me.

We had a bit of extra snow here in Winnipeg, and her car (a Subaru at that) couldn't make it out of her lane, so she called work for a pickup (she does health-care work, so they have a phone-fan system).

So she tells me later that the husband of a co-worker picked her up and took her home later "in a 15 hundredweight."

I perked up at that, but figured she must have meant a 3/4-ton, but she insisted it was a "15 hundredweight" Figured out later it was a Chevy 1500 - i.e. a half-ton 4x4 - which means she must think my diesel 4x4 Silverado is a "25 hundredweight" - and she still doesn't realize how much the CMP lingo has rubbed off on her.

She's a sweetie.