Unless his dealer is way better than my local one, he is going to have a hard time with that. At least on my Volvo, the glass and interior are only covered for the first 12 months. The dealer has the ability to “good will” the work, but it isn’t a requirement.

This has restored some small part of my faith in humanity.

I am all about this, but how is this different from serving bread pudding as a breakfast food? (Which, again, I on board with.)

Yes. Exactly. I started watching it one night and couldn’t stop. Everyone was so nice to each other and like... helped out and teamed up!

Stop breaking my heart here! I kinda have had a sneaker for the Freelander.

And if something genuinely bad were to go wrong, and I really needed to check my engine?

Nah man, he’ll get the mulch delivered. Don’t want to mess up the bed!

Fun story! I actually got a car running because I was frustrated, had a very large glass of bourbon, and went back to it. The “liquid courage” made me a little more daring in my diagnostic work. Soon enough I had a massive intake backfire that sent parts of the intake plenum flying across the garage. When the smoke…

Post drunk, revise sober.

Problem: solved.

self-conscious patina cars

Ordering steak black and blue, also known as Pittsburgh rare, is like cheating. Also delicious. I went from having to send back 50% of my steaks (overcooked more than one level) to always getting something edible. Worst I’ve had is a very thin steak come out medium, but the outside was still delightfully crusty and…

To quote Better Off Ted:

Preferably a 2nd vehicle that David was in no way involved in the purchasing decision.

I think I like this version better.

:thunk:

1+2+1+1

Apparently a lot of old Alfas have a mechanical washer sprayer pump there.

Not knowing his specific objections, there are some. Mostly that you get put on the same list for peeing in public as you do for raping children. Kinda hard to separate the people who did a silly thing from the horrible monsters if you put them all in the same bucket.

Once I decided this was actually just a Jeep making a strained pooping face, these amuse me.