This story is awesome.

I agree with the sentiment, but there’s also a feeling of “just in case.” I mean, i have an old Ranger at home for the real “need to pick up something big” moments, but I do get the “what if I go out to lunch and want to take more than one other person?” (already a stretch with my Mazda 3) What if hte wife and I are…

To be fair, I’m super clumsy. If there’s a way to hurt yourself on something, I’ll find it.

To be fair, I’m super clumsy. If there’s a way to hurt yourself on something, I’ll find it.

I have one of these, and like it OK, but the little inside point is SUPER sharp, and the number of times I would stab my finger on it when reaching into my pocket was greater than the number of times I actually got some use out of the device itself, so it’s been relegated to my drawer of “things I thought would change…

I have one of these, and like it OK, but the little inside point is SUPER sharp, and the number of times I would…

You’re know to get from NYC to LAX you can go west, not east, right?

Better than progressive decline? Things have gotten worse by the year, I’m really not sure how it couldn’t improve at least a little. Even if it keeps things at the status quo that’s an improvement....

I would argue that your “solution” is more worthy of quotes than this one, as it’s proven itself invalid. It’s like the “solution” to systemic obesity being people don’t eat as much, or the “solution” to the opiates problem for people not to do drugs, or the “solution” to teenage pregnancy (or overpopulation) is for…

I’m sure I have more, but these are the ones I could find.

Toaster is such a good name

1. Sorry if you took that to be aimed at YOU as a parent, I just chose your comment to respond to, nothing personal (obviously, since I don’t know you). I was actually AGREEING with the second half of your comment, to begin with :)

If... if you sell the car for 11,000 dollars you are....?

Entitlement is 100% a parental problem. It’s funny how the generation that created entitlement in their children are blaming the children for it.

I also loved my Subaru, and we bought my wife one, but I know TWO people (my in-laws and a friend) who bought new manual transmission Foresters with oil burning problems, and both dealerships told them this is “normal” and there was nothing they could do. There’s a class action lawsuit about it. It’s actually a…

At least as of 2016, if you get the three-pedal variant, it WILL likely burn oil from the factory, and Subaru will do nothing about it except tell you to top it off every once in a while. So there’s that.

I also have a hatch, and agree that my rear seats are folded more often than not, but I still find it more convenient by a pretty large margin to get things in and out via the back doors rather than the hatch. Might be different in something as short as a Golf, but my Mazda 3 isn’t exactly a limo. But every day my…

I don’t have kids, but having a two-door anything for normal use is a pain. Back seats can be useful for throwing things into. Doors make them easy to access. :)

Having three dogs, this was a big part of why we went with an at-home vet. The house visits are a little more expensive (it’s basically the regular cost of a vet, plus $60 for the visit), but it’s so much easier than wrangling three dogs to a vet’s office, AND they’re so much more comfortable being at home. Our vet…

I had a couple of older cars you could start without keys. ‘79 AMC Concord, and a ‘75 Pontiac Grand Prix. Problem was I had both of those right when I was learning to drive, in high school, and got really used to not having to worry about my keys, and then when I got real cars I’d always forget my keys or leave my…

Seconded!

Seconded!

Oof, if I had that kind of track record with driving I think I’d just move to NYC or somewhere equally urban and subsist on public transpo (not a suggestion or criticism, just a sympathetic note).