It once took me nearly six months to get a car registered and “completely legal”...

I don’t disagree... I’ve lived in Texas, currently live in Kansas, commuted between the two for a while and now work in Missouri. But it’s ok. I’m a Clemson fan. :-P

I ditched my radar detector 24 years ago. I’ve gotten 3 speeding tickets since, all were on expressways in city where a traditional radar detector goes nuts anyway from all the automated doors, and in one of those cases, I just missed an unmarked car a couple of cars back.

When I finally replaced my aging ‘97 Jetta GLS (300k miles) after 16 years of ownership, I ended up in Jan ‘13, with a ‘12 Passat SE w/ Tech, it was used, 9K miles, but pristine. My driveway is one car wide, but fans out to accomodate 2 cars in front of the double onsite storage space (AKA garage).

Or Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, etc...

I have to admit that I use to have, what had become over 16 years, a beater MKIII Jetta... It was narrow enough that I could usually pull in next to the BMW douche and still get out of my car... But I didn’t think it was funny, I just wanted to punish the BMW driver douche for being such a self-important ass.

in my (admittedly brief) experience with driving on Michigan roads (Metro Detroit), hitting the potholes at 55 is bad enough... I’d expect hitting them at 75 would boost the profits of many a dealership and alignment shop.

Gotcha. Thanks!

Genuine curiosity*, what is the “white woman’s version of the Henrietta Lacks story”?

So true! The only reason I even have the base U-Verse TV package is for the discount to my internet package. To get to a package that includes ESPN would cost me an additional $60 / month. Where as Sling TV with ESPN only costs $20 / month and no annual contract, I only pay for it during college football season.

Smaller... Milford.

When we moved to Texas, we did the obligatory thing and bought a Suburban. (We did have 4 kids, and also purchased a travel trailer). But over time the rear differential didn’t like the travel trailer... A neighbor had the same Suburban but with the beefier diff, hadn’t been making his payments due to some medical…

It’s 1990 and I’m visiting some old friends. We’re just riding around in my ‘86 XR4Ti. We come up to a stop light and initially plan to turn left. While waiting for the light to turn green, we change our plans and decide to turn right, go by Mike’s work (the skating ring) and see if any of the staff want to party. …

Ah, but how to you relieve the “Morning Glory*” effect the next day?

* When you take your daily constitutional and those pain receptors in your butt, fire off.

I think your respirator was a bit loose...

My mother owned a 1st gen Tempo and hated it. She complained the entire time she owned. I kept telling her to never buy another one. So what does she do when the car was totaled in an accident? She buys a 2nd gen Tempo, “because they have to be better...”

That’s when I stopped offering car advice and started…

I’ve briefly toyed with Sync 3 and I like it a whole lot more than Sync 1 / 2. I absolutely hated UConnect in my last rental.

Have you tried VW’s RNS-315?

Not that much. When we were transiting back to the US from one of our deployments, the small boys headed south to avoid a hurricane, the Enterprise (Big E) took are more direct route, skirting much closer to storm than we did. From what I heard they did finally turn to a bit more southerly route, after they started…

He actually received a medal for making coffee, but that’s a whole different story....