Automatic seat belts, in that brief period around 1987-88 between when active restraint was mandated, but airbags weren’t ubiquitous yet. The seat belt either was attached to the rear edge of the door and you had to kind of slide in under it as you got in, or it was motorized in a track around the door frame and prone…

Whew! I had a Chevette in college in the 80s. One day on the way to school, I was coming to a stoplight and went to downshift...and the shifter came off in my hand. Not just the knob, the entire shift lever. Luckily it was in second gear, and I was able to make my way home. The metal cup that held the lever in place ha…

Isn’t it Ketanji instead of Kentaji?

My dad has an ‘82 LTD wagon with less than 30K on it. He wasn’t planning to buy it, but it came up on the block at an auction he was at, and it wasn’t getting any bids. It was literally one of those “old lady only drove it to church on Sunday” cars. This isn’t it, but it looks just like this:

Yep, for a long time my morning routine has been: take medicine, floss, then brush and don’t rinse the toothpaste out. 30 minutes or so later I’ll have coffee. I haven’t had a cavity in years.

I graduated from high school in ‘84. I think many of us have some sense of nostalgia for things from our teen years, before life became...real. Our favorite music and our favorite pizza are what we listened to and what we ate when we were in high school.

I had my first one in November, and the worst part for me was near the end of the prep. I had been doing really well, I thought, but then the last couple of doses of laxative made me so nauseated that I threw up. The procedure itself was simple. Like you, I had a type of anesthesia that didn’t leave me feeling weird…

It all depends on how you use them and how much you drive on them, of course, but I get about 5 years out of the winter tires on my SRT-4. I’ve been using General AltiMAX for a long time, and am pretty satisfied with them. When I first got them they were one of the few winter tires I could find in the size I needed.

Pretty good analysis. If this were half the price, I’d likely be on the NP side. Having owned several 2.2L/2.5L cars (I still currently own two), and having owned an ‘89 Voyager, I have a lot of positive feelings for this van. But we turbo Mopar people are a notoriously cheap bunch, and I think it’s going to be hard…

I was a little disappointed these weren’t from Chopped champion Drew Magary.

My county sent me a call notice just 1 month after I *served*. Their system is clearly terrible. I wrote on it that state law said I couldn’t be called again for a minimum of 1 year after serving, and sent it back.

I’ve been called several times in my life, and served twice. The first was “pretty fun,” a case in small claims court, and an interesting experience. The other was in 2020, a murder case, and something I hope never to have to experience again. Hearing and seeing autopsy reports and photos and crime scene photos is not…

Really looking forward to this. I wasn’t a Robbie Amell fan before, I guess since I had only seen him playing in essentially YA-type stories, and I’m getting old. He does a great job in Upload, though, in a more adult role. I was glad I gave S1 a shot, because it was one of the best new SF shows I’d seen in a long…

I’ll probably die at my job. Since there are mostly no more perqs like pension plans, many of us Gen Xers have to just keep working, put what we can into a retirement account, and hope for the best.

“has to manage her boomer mom just like every other millennial”

Well, now we know that it’s a Subaru Passing Lamp!

If I’m driving down a dark desert highway, there better be cool wind in my hair!

My first car was a ‘76 Pacer. I still have a soft spot for them, and kinda would love to have one powered by something like a turbo I4.

Our local Arby’s has had more trouble staying open than other restaurants, too, for some reason. A couple of days ago our Walmart started closing at 8 pm instead of 11 due to staffing shortages.

Well, it’s also about portion sizes and ratios, isn’t it? Clearly portion sizes in the U.S. are far too large, and for it’s size, the Popeye’s chicken breast itself is underseasoned. There may be visible herbs in the batter, but there’s not enough salt in the chicken. I’d prefer a smaller piece of chicken with the…