There’s the Darien Gap 

anyone got proof that these will inflate a normal flat tire on a normal car in a reasonable time without overheating?  I’ve had bad luck with tire inflators that were below the $50 price point. 

anyone got proof that these will inflate a normal flat tire on a normal car in a reasonable time without…

My wife and I test drove an Element and it drove like a crappy tin can....we couldn’t believe how bad it was. Given that it was under-powered was the last straw. We walked away from that feeling like we’d just avoided a potentially terrible mistake.

he likes big-boned women

1963 Buick Skylark Convertible in red for $3500 in the late 80s. I don’t think red was factory, but it was someone’s restoration and it looked and ran beautifully. I shoulda.

I hope they are gone. When a company has to lower their prices to absurd levels to attract customers, the quality suffers, and that is what has happened at most Subways I’ve been to.

Marmot Precip Jacket. Comfortable, some breath-ability, well made, lots of color options, not insanely expensive.   I’ve been in some decent downpours in it, no problems. 

Marmot Precip Jacket. Comfortable, some breath-ability, well made, lots of color options, not insanely expensive.  …

“It’s a shame to see another good sedan disappear”....

The only accident I had where I was truly faulted (and had an insurance claim and lawsuit against me) was when I had my car in the shop and had to rent a car and the rental place only had a Ford Ranger. I took it, not thinking about it. Traffic was stopped on a bridge, but it turns out the Ford Ranger, or at least…

my wife hit a car in front of hers, it had slammed the brakes full on in the rain for reasons that were not clear. Turns out it was a woman and her mother (40s and 60s, it seemed), and the road curved there, and the mother saw the red light for the turn lane and shouted to her daughter at the last second that the light…

I went through a flashing yellow light and someone on the other intersecting road went through a flashing red and hit me. Fun times. She sued me. I got interesting calls from some inner-urban lawyer. My insurance company thought it was rather comical when they had the facts in hand.  She had claimed I was going 60, to…

I had to brake hard at an exit where the road curved out of view and had stopped traffic. I see, in my rear view mirror, a car coming to hit me, with a woman driving it, on the phone. Realizing what might happen, I gun my car forward about 15 feet to within inches of the car in front of me and she’s able to stop in…

Before I was 18, and with my first serious girlfriend: I had lost something—I don’t remember what. We were going down an urban road with lots of shopping areas. She was messing around and said excitedly, hey 0ttr, and I said “what?” and she said “look!” and I looked, and she had found the thing I’d lost and the old…

that photo freaked me out, almost looked like it was his body, given the context of the article.

It’s actually puzzling why this hasn’t been done sooner.   All ships should be sailing ships in my mind, with engines for backup power.  They are among the world’s worst polluters. 

“thousands of miles up in the air”

Put a 15 lb weight on my back. Did a pushup. It fell onto my thumb and broke the tip of the bone off.

Opened the back of my SUV and the 15 lb propane tank I had in their for my camper rolled out of the back and onto my sandled foot before the door was high enough for me to see what had happened. A guy nearby said “Good…

I like how this Native American dude turned out to be Italian.  I’m serious.

So perhaps there’s a secret way to use a hydraulic jack to put a car on jack stands that I’m unaware of, but there’s only one lift/jack point in each corner, so I jacked it up next to that point (literally 2-3 inches away to clear the base of the stand) so that I could put the jackstand underneath that point. Well,…

I agree in principle, but when you’re the low rung on the ladder, you are putting your job and career on the line. Most of these people don’t have/can’t afford lawyers to help them with whistleblower and other kinds of protections. It’s a bigger risk than many of us would take. You could be effectively blackballed.
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