Not my kid, but I solved ONE person driving around with the bar on by criticizing him for driving around without a cover. Gave him a story about how driving at on-road speeds caused the lens to get scratched and dulled by bugs and pebbles and dust, so his lights are less-bright off road when he really needs them. He…

I bought a new Mazda in 2018. Despite the credit union financing in hand (somewhere around 2% for 48 months), and after we had agreed to a price, they presented financing options. One was an additional $1,000 off the agreed price and (this is not a typo) 0.0% financing for 60 months with Chase. I put that loan on…

Assumed that was meant to tell us that he was moneyed, and therefore should have known how to act around around a helicopter.

Maybe had the phone in his hand as he approached and the helicopter was loud as hell, so he held stuck his fingers in his ears while still holding his phone. Might look like he’s holding it to talk, but really just trying to keep the noise out.

Yes, and Jackson also gets a lot of snow. (Well, some years, anyway.) The streets are wide with parking on each side which can be used in the summer to park the cars of tourists that feed the local economy. In the winter they can use that space to put the plowed snow. Think of the parking as an alternate use for snow…

There’s actually a reason people from Southern California do this: it is a relic of being early freeway adopters: https://www.kcet.org/shows/lost-la/the-5-the-101-the-405-why-southern-californians-love-saying-the-before-freeway-numbers

Some of this is because adding “The” sounds normal to people in...well...The United States.

“I didn’t see a thing.”

Yeah, this only works when VERY young, because I remembered some of this bullshit, and it made me not trust my dad as a reliable source on anything.

It’s not the flipping of the coin, it is the phrasing of the “win” scenario.

He was actually a really funny guy, and we got along well, which I’m sure she hated. He ended up giving me a job and I worked for him for like 5 years after we broke up.

After 10pm. I was 16, so probably like....10:05.

“Hey! I resemble that comment.”

Doesn’t close to 80% of the population live in urban locations?

This looks dumb. Also, my house right now:

Them: “Jesus, take the wheel.”

Same. I keep this patch on my work shirt:

I always wanted a style closer to this fan concept, but obviously way too close to the Challenger to be a different product line.

The numbers NASA kicked around for the shuttle were $10,000 per pound of payload, and Space-X claims $9,100 per pound of payload: