My ‘74 Roadrunner came with the gorilla tightened oil filter. I went through hell getting it off at this rent a bay by the hour garage. I had a strap wrench that just slid on it, and then it started to crush it.

My cat Orville showed no interests in hunting or killing mice at all, until he was 10 years old, then he began killing them and bringing us the corpses and sometimes still alive mice. When he got close to the end of his 17 year life, we got two puppies. The female chased anything that moved, but had no real desire to…

Yeah, we tolerated a lot of hassles with carbs and with emissions equipment, too. I did smog tests on cars for a while, and some of the bizarre vacuum hose arrangements were amazingly bad, the Honda ones being the worst of the foreign ones and Ford being the worst domestic. Those crap rubber hoses would crack and leak…

I remember something about plastic carbs back then, I guess that’s what your dad had. Just a bad bad idea. We had the Caravan until 1988, almost 4 years. It’s sole issue, other than being gutless, and my puppy I got the day before I bought it eating the interior doesn’t count, was the A/C condensor would break just…

This sort of person is why they never should have closed most of the mental hospitals. 

I heard from people how great the peanut butter cups from TJ’s are, so a friend brought me a jar back from vacation with him. What a total disappointment. They were OK, but not anywhere near as good as Reese’s a normal ones are. I don’t buy the little ones because there is something not quite right about them. They…

Hell, I CAN drive a stick and I would never, ever, buy a manual car as a daily driver. The last time I drove one, I had to take a friend’s dog to the vet across town. By the time I got there, I had thoughts about abandoning the car and calling a friend to pick us up to take me and the dog home.

My mother used to make our dogs a special dinner for their birthdays and on Thanksgiving and Christmas. Most of the time, it was sushi rice, with some 80% lean ground beef, along with Green Giant Le Suer peas with butter sauce on them. The peas and sauce were the key to it! Seasoned with seasoned salt, garlic(quite a…

I’ve worked with and been friends with cultists of all sorts of things. The first one I can remember was a friend who simply worshipped Ford. I have no idea why. Later on, there have been Apple, another Ford guy, and the oddest one of all, a guy who worshipped Joss Wheadon. We used to bet how many times a shift he…

I’ve worked with and been friends with cultists of all sorts of things. The first one I can remember was a friend who simply worshipped Ford. I have no idea why. Later on, there have been Apple, another Ford guy, and the oddest one of all, a guy who worshipped Joss Wheadon. We used to bet how many times a shift he…

My sister was a “close driver” and Ballaban is almost as close as she used to drive. She would rest her forearms on the wheel a lot of the time and as far as I know, she still does.

Did her promotion come with acting classes for her in real life, too? Because she needs them, badly!

I’ve known about the combo of the perfect drink, Pepsi, and real, made on the stove popcorn for 5 decades, at least. Make mine with corn oil, of course, and baby white corn. Topped with freshly ground sea or Himalayan pink salt.

Subway:

Maybe it will taste better than the current bread at Subway? Hard to believe it might be worse, but knowing Subway, I figure it’s 50/50. A couple of days ago, I bought some lunch meat and a french baguette at Kroger’s for about $5 total, and got 3 sandwiches out of it and they were light years ahead of anything I ever…

I had two. The first was a ‘77 Dodge Macho Power Wagon. On a nice day in spring of ‘77, I went to the largest local chevy dealer to work out a deal on a Chevy K10. I was 20, about to turn 21. I had the cash to buy it outright. We work out what I thought was a decent deal, and my mom’s boyfriend, who was a car dealer’s…

I work with a lot of really young IT people who have done some truly mind blowingly bad car deals as soon as they start getting decent paychecks. One kid bought a Scion XB that was maxed out loaded and had every stupid dealer add on thrown in. He put nothing down, he just traded in his former grandmother’s Buick on…

I’ve never understood what people find even remotely good looking about the 4C.

I bought my first multimeter when I was about 8, a Micronta at Radio Shack. Sadly, I was sleepy one night and had it on a low volt range and plugged the probes into a wall outlet. BLAM, goodbye meter...

My parents and later on, my sister were guilty of picking bad colors. My dad never had a car from 1956, when I was born, until his last one in ‘73 was any sort of a decent color. A wierd yellowish orange Merc was the first one I remember. It was followed by a tan Olds of unknown model, it was hit by a drunk in the…