Yes, when I have a flat tire, it’s always with a pre-production car that I abandon and cover with a tarp.

I mean to be fair, those new model issues tend to be things that are a non-issue if you’re buying this to drive 7 miles per year and keep it stored in the 4th garage stall of your 3rd vacation home for a few decades before you try to take it to barrett jackson and let some other rich idiot also over pay for a low vin.

Probably a good thing that fewer new cars come equipped with space-saver donuts these days. I’ve even seen people running more than one, like where are you getting multiples and what is happening in your life?

A 2004 Volkswagen Passat GLX 4-Motion that I purchased in 2006 as a 2-year lease return with only 20k miles. I’ve posted about it before and won’t rehash the extensive list of problems, but it would be difficult for me to imagine anything being worse at providing even semi-reliable transportation. Just a short list of…

It was rough and cheap and expensive and great

“Maybe I would change my tune if I had my own car with seat vents. Nope.”

Ventilated seats.

No doubt - and in my much younger and dumber years, I did it too, and damned near had an accident like this once. I ended up sideways in the ditch as the next to last car I was about to pass pulled out to pass without looking, just like here. Thankfully didn’t roll or do any real damage to my poor ‘82 Subaru. Had to…

Seen this as well. And traffic stacked up for a 1/2 a mile because the first person behind the slow vehicle won’t pass after more than several opportunities to do so. And by slow, I mean 10-15 mph below the speed limit.

All three of us clearly heard someone sneeze a few feet away from us.

1996 - Chicago suburbs - I was a scrawny 14 yr old boy. My sister and I were home alone - she was in her bedroom on the other side of the house. I was doing homework at our kitchen table facing a floor to ceiling window facing the backyard. It was already dark outside, which meant the window was basically a mirror…

I occasionally get sleep paralysis which is pretty awful in its own right. Its not recurring and its not a consistent figure or entity, I usually just chalk it up to whatever I ate or watched.

One of the most vivid was that I dreamt I was on a tour of an old building (its the US, so 1800s old) with a group of other…

My wife and I were at a croc/alligator rescue park in S. Carolina and my 7 year old wandered off with my 2 year old in a blink of an eye. I haven’t run in 10 years but I ran then.

They were fine, just had rounded a corner 10 ft away to get uncomfortably close to the fence to look at one of the largest crocodiles in…

I moved into a new apartment in Manhattan’s East Village in 2018. It was a huge upgrade for me, and it really is special. It’s kind of a carriage house building with only five apartments and you have to walk through another building to get to it. There is an adorable little courtyard with trees and flowers, and I even…

This story belongs to my dad, but I was present for it- albeit in my mom’s belly. My dad worked transporting buses across the country and taking odd jobs for a big part of his twenties, and by the time he married my mom, he’d experienced more strange happenings than the average person. But this story happened in his…

When I was 12, every night for close to two months someone would knock on my bedroom window. It was usually after 11 p.m. and before 2 a.m. and, at the beginning, would wake me from a dead sleep to where I thought I was dreaming. A few times I even heard the knocking in my dreams and then woke up and the knocking was…

The scariest stories are always the true ones. I’m glad you got out ok!

When I was in fourth grade, my mom and I moved a few hours away to live with my grandma. I was an only child and painfully shy; all my friends had been my friends since forever, and I had no idea how to talk to these new kids at school.

In 2005 I spent the majority of the summer hitchhiking. I had just graduated from college and wanted to try something completely unfamiliar to me, and I insisted on making it a challenge. I lugged everything I had in two large backpacks, one carried on my back and the other on my front, filled with…

Back when I was on dating apps, I match with this guy and he’s really cute. He had a shirtless mirror selfie as his profile pic which was usually a hard pass for me, but he seemed sweet/nerdy so I talked to him. He tells me how he’s really worked on his body because he was a nerd and really awkward with women.