1970s albo to friend with a Gran Torino: “You getting 60s in the back and 70s in the front?  Cool.”

Oh, no, I can’t see any downside at all to buying an old Chrysler product for 700 bucks and confidently driving it on the public highways without a care in the world that it will break down at the worst time and place and my family will have to visit the morgue to identify by bloody and battered remains.

That car wasn’t worth more than $3,200 when its front tires touched the road off the dealer’s lot.

and a whole lot of butter.”

I spent too much time looking up King of the Hill conspiracy theories once.

What makes a car white?

It’s like we’ve decided color is a bad thing.

My mother-in-law had that white Camry in the pic, only an 89, not a 90. Dark red interior made it look like a red velvet cake.

This is like basing your credit score off of your phone calls in the 80s.

1964 Buick Electra 225

I think it was PJ O’Rourke, when he and a blonde drove a Lincoln Continental through Mexico, said that the hood was so long that if you hit an animal it was like a revolution in Africa:  bloody and messy, but far away from you.

but what was his plan after that?

VASaviation posted the ATC radio traffic on YouTube. The pilots are surprisingly calm as they explain to the tower that some rando is walking on the runway toward them. I guess that’s why we trust them to fly us safely.

I had a retired friend who had the habit of not opening mail

The guy’s got a suspended license. You don’t get your license suspended for being poor. It’s suspended because you’ve done some things of your own free will that under state law, which applies to all equally, remember, requires the suspension of your license.

7.5 cents for shredder? I remember when it was 11 cent in our area years back, and at least two or three scrappers would drive our neighborhood the night before trash day.

are people that are not taking a whole lot of precautions in general

Yeah, it’s not like you can’t overeat, get drunk, gamble or see terrible live shows in your living room these days. And your living room is less likely to have slow-walking seniors getting in your way.

Two bottles of Michelob, midnight showing of Dawn of the Dead, 1979.  And yes, one dropped and rolled down.

Is any of it the director wanting to tell people, “hey, I’m worthy of doing actual movies, so hire me?”