Mine was the first time I flew first class from Vegas to O’Haire in 1981. I was 25, traveling back to Toledo with my mother. We were delayed for some reason, I think the pilot showed up sick or maybe drunk, and all I know is the pilot changed from when we got on the plane to shortly before takeoff. About 45 minutes…

Back about 40 years ago, I traded in my dog of dog, lemon of lemons 1977 Dodge Power Wagon at a local Pontiac dealer. About 4 days later, it showed up on a “pop up” used car lot where dozens of used cars, some decent, some barely moving would be for sale. Most of the cars that ended up there were just private…

I’ve had stuff I mailed in, including a couple of parking tickets, go off into wherever the hell the mail sometimes goes to vacation before eventually showing up. The worst example of this was one time I was waiting for a check from a nearby town. It didn’t show up a week later, and I had tax estimates to pay, so I…

Putting a for sale sign on my cars always worked in the past, and I still got way more calls about them with a sign and parking the car at one of the busiest intersections in the area than have online. Last one was my 2008 Charger which got zero calls from postings online, but sold 4 hours after I parked it on a…

Looks like they hired the Traxxas RC car paint scheme designers. Not good on a 10/th scale car, let alone a 1/1 car. 

The local (Toledo, OH area) dealers are kind of infamous for not ever ordering cars in actual colors anymore. When I was shopping, I kept finding one car after another correctly optioned, except for the color, or lack of one. Silver, the awful Destroyer Gray, White, black, “Granite”, and “Platinum”, sure, but a red…

WTF is with these awful colors? More like “sorta ____ color”. Just awful. 

At first, I thought there was a possibility that the cops thought they were pulling over someone else, and went off the deep end. That apparently wasn’t the case, the videos seem to show they knew who he was and swarmed him, for whatever reason. From the videos I watched, I didn’t watch them all, it seemed like he…

Back in the old days, these loons would be judged to be whackjobs who need to be cared for, in the local asylum. Today, their insanity is amplified by the internet to reach other loons who buy into their bullshit. I admit that I want to see a few of them with burned eyes crying about it on TV or Youtube a couple of…

I think the present Accord is pretty ugly, but IMHO, almost all “modern” cars are ugly, more some than others, but the shape is the same in almost all of them, with different angry bug front ends and weird rear ends.

I’ve wrestled with a baby Chimp, and it was crazy strong, but I would totally pass on Rags to have another tussle with her:

I’m 67, and I swear I will never be old enough to buy a damn Accord. I just spent a month in an Accord Sport rental car and I totally don’t get the love of them, or any Honda vehicle, at all. Bad seating position, seat wouldn’t go back far enough, another 3/4" would have been great, I hated the “tablet glued to the…

I was on I15 heading into LA in the summer of 77, and suddenly a lot of cars ahead of me started slamming on their brakes and for about 2 seconds, I was like, “WTF is going on?” and then I understood when the wave of the quake hit my section of the road, and the DJ on the radio said, “That’s an earthquake folks!”, or…

I wish I was as tough as she was. Not even close.

If my mother was still alive, her only real comment would be, “The kid was just a bad driver!”, as she was driving by herself in Lincoln, Nebraska by age 10 (1935) with full knowledge of the local police, who would see her and say, “Be careful honey!”. She mostly drove at night, picking up her always drunk uncles from…

There was a local guy who bought into the Harold Camping end of the world BS in 2011, and sold his house to his next door neighbor for about 10% of what it was worth ($20K for a $200K house, I’ll take that deal!), then after it didn’t happen, wanted to buy it back for what he was paid for it. The neighbor laughed at…

The “Acorn Cop” needs a job.

This is about the only positive thing to ever happen at Subway. It’s still only a desperation stop for me, but at least I can drink what I love. I’m still pissed at Culver’s for switching to Coke stuff. At least they still have decent sweet tea available. And most of the time, it actually is cold and has ice in it. 

I can’t say I like it much. The front is...OK, not special or great, just OK, but that rear quarter...wow. Not good, ugly for ugly sake? And those awful wheels. WTF is with so many cars having awful looking wheels?