Pretty much what I did with my daughter, but I made the mistake of nomenclature.  When she let out the clutch too quickly and stalled the engine, I messed up and said “you killed it”.  She thought that meant she destroyed the engine.  

Get out of my head!  Actually I know grocery store traffic enough to know never drive directly in front of the entrance.  If I need to get to the other side of the parking lot I usually drive behind the store where the trucks unload.

Public transit would take me 56 minutes to get to work.  I can bike it in about half an hour if I take the long way.

That was my thought too. The truck is obviously totaled, will they take the time to rinse out the footwells/dashboard/windshield before taking it to the salvage yard?

Helpful assembly instructions available online

Today I was in the car with my wife explaining the code on mail trucks by which you can tell their age. Her face was like this:

I was looking at a car once and found the salesman absolutely grating. I left, came back a day later and told the first guy who offered to help me that the previous guy was a dipshit, and I wanted to change salesmen. He says “yeah, happens all the time”.

I think mine was an ‘84 Ram 50. I’d never used cruise control before, and halfway through Nebraska on a 700 mile road trip I realized I had it. So I thought “Nothing else to do but try to figure it out”.  

Funny, it was a car salesman who first told me I COULD get cruise with a manual.  This was in the ‘80's, so maybe it was a more common question.

I’ve always wanted a Kia Soul, but I’d need it in black just so I could describe to people what I have

Yikes.  

The guy who cut my hair said he somehow was given a ‘78 Datsun 280Z 2+2 with under 60k original miles. All original, and just needed minor tweaks, but he didn’t want it, he just wanted it gone. He offered it to me for something like $2500. I called my wife, she said ‘no’. I listened. And now I bring it up occasionally…

Wasn’t even a parking garage, and it was at my regular airport (Denver). We got there late, saw the shuttle bus already near the stop, so we parked the car and ran for it. Along the way I dropped a pin in Google Maps and stopped thinking about it altogether...until we got back from our trip to sunny California. We…

“Nothing more expensive than a cheap German car”

I agree 100%.  I looked at a 2017 something-or-other, and nearly bought it until driving back to the dealer to do the paperwork. I stopped to connect the phone, and it wouldn’t.  I could make calls, but not listen to music.  And no aux port.  Really?  The dealer looked at installing an aftermarket, but the way the…

My old Scirocco had no A/C, and I had a brilliant idea to cool the car by going to the car wash before driving home on a 100 degree day. I’d purchased a stick-on dashboard thermometer from K-Mart and it was 130 degrees inside the car when I got in.

Time to build a wheel.  Do it right and your pride in them will last forever.

I’ve heard that argument before, but if you get rear-ended with enough force to push your car more than six feet you’ve got other things to worry about rather than the guy’s bumper in front of you

I dunno...I hate consoles that are too small (my 2012 GTI, I’m lookin’ at you) but that’s pretty big. The balance seems like it should be pretty easy, big enough for a phone but too small to stuff a sleeping bag.

I never really considered an electric motorcycle until this.  One issue I have is that the woman riding it in the pictures seems to fit the bike nicely, but I’m pretty sure she’s a lot smaller than I am.  Question: At 6' 1" would I look like a Shriner riding this?