Small town driver’s ed was the most perfect extension of my small town high school life. Probably weird to my friends who grew up in actual cities, though.

I once worked on a farm that had a lovely little (very crooked) Ranger for a farm truck. It stopped being fun to drive after a gallon of apple cider had exploded inside the cab in the early autumn heat, after sitting and fermenting for who knows how long. The truck smelled like fermented/rotten apples/vinegar for the…

I, too, am a girlfriend with an SX4 (2011) and I love mine. It's like the perfect mix of utility and fun for those of us with no current need for a truck or huge suv or sports car. Tons of older people drive them in my neighborhood. They know what's up.

Yes.

Outside the Northeast Corridor? I beg to differ, sir. You meant "definitely the Northeast Corridor."

One day is not sufficient time to convince me to drive the 550 miles home. I always drive that distance whenever I visit, though. If I had unlimited time or energy next week, sure. If I had unlimited time, energy, AND money? Train. Definitely train. Although Amtrak really loves to run wild with that "unlimited time"…

Cruise control. Used to routinely drive 550 miles one way without it. What a young and crazy kid I was. Never again.

Well, you got me there. That sounds...not terrible.

I can easily picture this at a Market Basket.

In an empty Walmart parking lot at about 10:00 PM after maybe a little too much pomegranate margarita from the Applebee's next door. On sheer ice, no less.