Every year for 5-6 years in a row?

I don't know that using the guy with a used Ferrari and CarMax Land Rover is the best example. :) Your Accord isn't going to have $5k in repairs every year the way that a new car payment will.

That's fine. I recently had an A6 that was terrifying to drive because every time I got in it I was scared that some thousand dollar part was just going to fall off. I traded it in for an extremely boring (but brand new) Hyundai Accent.

5k for brakes tires fluids and suspension????

I might have a bridge for sale that you'd be interested in.

The "maintenance was expensive" thing is an easy lie to tell yourself. When was the last time that anyone spent $4800 per year ($400 monthly payment on new car) in repairs?

Putting Rose on the pitcher's mound seems like a gambling problem of a different sort.

I came back from the bathroom and my stream was frozen at this point in time. Just as I went to hit PrtScr it unfroze.

He just needs to take 2 years off and play in the MLB.

I know when I was messing around with Rotax, we had to be within a certain weight. Being a skinny guy, I was always strapping as many things as I could to the kart to meet weight. My brother was 25lbs lighter than me, he had it worse :D

I guess this isn't really a "spooky" sort of story... but I think near death counts as scary.

Like the beginning to (hopefully) most of these stories, I was young and dumb. Fifteen years ago, me and four friends were coming back home a drum corps performance in "my" 1990 Mazda Protege. The highway we were on was three lanes each direction, with not a lot of shoulder. I had driven it before, but I wasn't super…

I like this idea that using 1960's (or 70's) tech is a bad idea. 60's and 70's tech landed us on the moon.

We have?

I don't disagree with you on it's technical difficulty. I do disagree that crashing and almost crashing has to be part of it. Any time you get on to the track you should be prepared for it. Accidents happen, but in every super cut of incidents like the one above, it always seems that the fault is in the driver.

I understand that the corner workers are paid for already, I just disagree that paying for the damage/tow is enough. If you can afford to take your M3 to the Ring! but you can't afford to take some proper driving lessons, money isn't an issue.

How unreasonable would it be to require that anyone who spins out their vehicle has to spend some amount of time working a flag station? I've done flags at our FLGKT (friendly local go-kart track), and it's tedious work that I wouldn't wish on my enemies.

Which led to Purcell falling down:

NEMESIS!!!!! AHHHHH HAH AH HA HA HA HAAAAA

"harmless sleeping potion for children"

Isn't the eyes/mouth katakana? (i.e. unicode?)