I’ve been at companies with unlimited paid sick leave and people still came to work sick.  Because it looks bad to take time off.

I wish we didn’t need a pandemic to convince people to stay home when sick.

My parents built a big garage where all my friends and I would work on our cars together.  But I don’t know if kids do that anymore.

If you want cleaner clothes, use more water, not more detergent. Water is the universal solvent.

Disposal cost should be included in the purchase price. But it’s $1 per tire extra in Virginia. I used be an automechanic and some people would have me put the old tires in the trunk where I knew they’d just toss them out in the woods to save $4. There they would breed mosquitos for the next 300 years.

If everybody would recline their seats then we could all just get along.

As a former owner of numerous 82-85 Firebirds and Camaros, I can say for certain that 3/4 of the torx heads you see in these early models are fake. 86 came with a redesign and the screws you see are actually screws.

The interesting thing about gravity is that we are not capable of actually understanding it. I’ve watched many videos and read many books on the subject. This one is by far the best:

I’ll add to this. Be the one who files first. That makes you the plaintiff and your spouse the defendant. And that makes a big difference.

I can’t fathom propping open a rear discharge push mower. But my side discharge mower tends to leave a line where the clippings pile up under the flap. This would help as long as nobody’s downrange.

Most important: Pull off somewhere safe! I’ve seen people changing tires in the middle of traffic. Insane! A month ago somebody stopped in the middle of I66 and was killed when they were rear ended. A while back I head about someone who stopped in traffic and was rear ended while leaning into the trunk. Lost both legs.

Sinic’s explanation of septic systems is spot on. The amount of household cleaners used by a normal household aren’t going to kill 2000 gallons of poop water or damage a 20,000 pound concrete tank. I have heard of rental properties having problems, but those are cleaned weekly with maximum chemicals.

The down payment at a “buy here pay here” dealer is what they actually paid for the car.  All the rest is profit.  And they’re known to sell, repo, and resell the same car over and over again.

I66 in Virginia has had no shoulders for the last 2 years due to construction and there’s nowhere for cops to pull people over. So they don’t. Now 2/3rds of the cars in the carpool lane are solo drivers. And it moves as slow or slower than the other lanes.

And on the flip side, the amount of flour in 1 measured cup can vary greatly depending on how packed the flour is. So you’re better off to go by weight than volume.

The acid in car batteries evaporates / boils off over time. Years ago there were caps on top of the battery to check and top-off the level (with distilled water). Batteries today are no different, except there are no caps or they’re hidden. Sometimes there’s a cover that you pop off to reveal the fill holes. Keeping…

I’m a gun nut and I forbid toy guns in my house because guns are not toys (we called squirt guns “squirters”). But damned if my son didn’t come home from his first day of school pointing his finger and saying “bang bang”. That really pissed me off.

It’s not even worth anything for parts.  Even the engine isn’t worth swapping because the Corvette accessory drive layout doesn’t work in other engine bays.

This.

We were done when our third was born, so it was kind of a bet between my wife and I. If she needed a c-section then she gets her tubes tied. Otherwise I get snipped.