Hooray for Stephen!
By Four Walls
@FourWalls (86740)
United States
July 1, 2019 5:58pm CST
After five days on the road I have made it home. They'll kick me out of the Dave Dudley fan club for not having SIX days on the road. 
Now that I'm home it's time to sing about Stephen.
Stephen is my car. He was named after the 1975 Neil Sedaka song about Stephen Foster. He's a newer car, a 2017 model, one of those "crossover" doo-hickey things. (I don't know where they fit, to tell you the truth: Honda says "crossover," or CUV; but the state has it registered as a truck.)
Oh, well. That's to confuse everyone. I'm here to talk about my gas mileage.
My first post-retirement road trip, which encompassed about 700 miles, four states, and five days, produced some staggering gas mileage.
Now, understand, this is a fully gas automobile. It is NOT a hybrid.
And that's not a doctored photo. I was getting 37 MPG. The "instant fuel economy" showed a few places where it was over 40 MPG.
Needless to say, I'm happy with my little...whatever it is.
Hooray for Stephen!
Here's the Sedaka song I picked to name this car after:
Now that I'm home it's time to sing about Stephen.
Stephen is my car. He was named after the 1975 Neil Sedaka song about Stephen Foster. He's a newer car, a 2017 model, one of those "crossover" doo-hickey things. (I don't know where they fit, to tell you the truth: Honda says "crossover," or CUV; but the state has it registered as a truck.)
Oh, well. That's to confuse everyone. I'm here to talk about my gas mileage.
My first post-retirement road trip, which encompassed about 700 miles, four states, and five days, produced some staggering gas mileage.
Now, understand, this is a fully gas automobile. It is NOT a hybrid.
And that's not a doctored photo. I was getting 37 MPG. The "instant fuel economy" showed a few places where it was over 40 MPG.
Needless to say, I'm happy with my little...whatever it is.
Hooray for Stephen!
Here's the Sedaka song I picked to name this car after:
From the Polydor album "Overnight Success" and the Rocket album "The Hungry Years". Issued as the B-side of the Australian release of "Breaking Up Is Hard To...
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@crossbones27 (52905)
• Mojave, California
2 Jul 19
Pretty interesting, what happened on that third trip? You were drag racing again, admit it.
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@FourWalls (86740)
• United States
2 Jul 19
That was the tank when I left Louisville, so part of that was in-town driving.
Drag racing? RuPaul and The Lady Chablis running around a track? 
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@crossbones27 (52905)
• Mojave, California
2 Jul 19
@FourWalls You took that a little to literal, think you really were racing RuPaul, your guilt is showing through. I bet you smoked that b word.
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@JohnRoberts (109841)
• Los Angeles, California
2 Jul 19
The extremes to get Neil Sedaka in on the act.
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@FourWalls (86740)
• United States
2 Jul 19
What can I say?
BTW, I’m just aching for Angels fans. That was such a shock. 
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@JohnRoberts (109841)
• Los Angeles, California
2 Jul 19
@FourWalls That was stunning news. Hard to believe.
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@JESSY3236 (22245)
• United States
2 Jul 19
My uncle has a CUV too. He gave his to my mother when the SUV he gave her a few years ago broke down. Then he bought another CUV.
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@janethwayne (5191)
• Philippines
2 Jul 19
Hooray to him indeed.That is pretty awesome.I like Neil Sedaka.
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