The kid is 15.  He likely isn’t attending UF.

And they stop will be in Atlanta, right?

Currently it’s more expensive to fly to Charlotte than it is to fly to NY. So you’re saying the market is forcing prices up when the airline is spending less on fuel and has an open seat they can sell from Charlotte to NY?

Thank God someone has a Jeep story worse than mine. Short version - I wanted to put shoulder belts in my 76 CJ-7. Wound up as a body swap due to the amount of rust I found. Initially tried a fiberglass body, but eventually went with a steel YJ body.

The big mistake in this case was expecting your 15 year old kid to manage this correctly.

I’ve heard the ‘Direct flights are cheaper than stops with layover’ a couple of times related to this incident.  This is true, but not a direct comparison because you aren’t somehow getting a direct flight to the final destination on the ticket, you’re getting off at an intermediate stop.

I actually have a hybrid C-Max, and it’s quite zippy, IMHO.  The hybrid assist really helps out.  So much so the chief maintenance expense is front tires.

Yeah, you should always have a backup - or two. Also never spend your last dollar on a card on food unless you have already eaten it. I work at a restaurant, and there are a variety of reasons your order might get cancelled, and the refund won’t appear for a few days.

Looks like a near copy of a Rivian to me.  Saw my first one of those in the wild yesterday, very handsome vehicle.

And - how slow is it?

I think there may be a difference between a no-show on the starting leg and a no-show at a layover. Because they know if you arrived at the connecting airport.

Since Gainesville is a regional airport, they really only fly directly to a couple of cities.  Any other flights from there make a stop at one of those cities and you get on another plane.

Unless they had standby passengers waiting at the gate, it’s unlikely they had enough time between realizing the person wasn’t going to show up for their seat and closing the plane’s door.

Yes, that’s why the words ‘cover’ and ‘version’ were used.

Like when my aunt parked next to my 300ZX in her Escort hatch and proclaimed them to be essentially the same, and I’m like yeah, they’re the same in they both have 2 doors, 4 tires and are painted red.

Drop the mic!

The Bloodhound Gang cover is clearly the best version of that song.

They’ve been giving free SXM months if you complete the recalls.  I just waited until before a long trip, then had one done.

I managed to nail a pedestrian (one of my class-mates, in fact) while riding my racing Peugeot 12 speed home from high school. She froze like a deer in the headlights and kept taking one step forwards, one step back.

That’s like the e-scooter experiment at my local university.  They rolled them out at the beginning of last school year.  They lasted a week before they were pulled due to reckless driving all over town.  The previous experiment was rental bikes, that lasted a whole semester, but ended because people were dumping them…