Familiar with the area from many trips to my former employer’s Atlanta office and I wouldn’t tempt fate with Atlanta drivers. Special brand of nuts second only to those I encountered in the Dallas Metro area. I understand the sentiment but you’re lucky to not have been shot or at least shot at.

Yep, Vodka. Drank a hole bottle once...woke up around 5:00 AM in my driveway in front of my car. I had no idea how I got there although everyone’s best guess was that I passed out on the hood and then rolled off onto the pavement.

MS-13 gets a shout out but the Sackler family gets zilch.

Oh for Christ’s sake, we’re back to the caravans.

I’m with you on this...before I retired (late 2016) I was hosting a number of folks from our software lab in Winchester, UK. They were in the US for internal meetings but because their meetings were in my sales territory I could get them to stay a few extra days to visit with customers. I pride myself in hospitality…

I hear your pain. I loaned my brother the very first car that I owned — a 1966 grape-blue Volvo Amazon wagon. I had totally gutted and repainted the interior (rust problems, moldy carpet), spent even more hours de-rusting the front fenders and headlights. Even at the crap wage I was earning then I’d put far more time…

If you want to see how bad it really was, take a look at James Lileks’ Gallery of Regrettable Food which is both a web site and a book. The web site’s section on Jello alone makes it worth the rabbit hole you’ll go down reading through this collection of actual recipes....

Take a number. 

Hmm...sound about like this scene from one of my favorite movies: https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/93ad2e63-9749-4f63-b8db-8cc951d8a5c9#/B1Degb3jumV.twitter

That being said, I’m probably going to watch the Netflix documentary too.

Sometime in the early 1970's our family’s dog (think mostly Collie and the rest random breeds) ate an entire beef stick (AKA “summer sausage”) that we got for Christmas. I believe it was two pounds but think of a meat stick about the diameter of a softball bat. As you *should* know, the outside casing isn’t edible.…

You might want to get a sample of the engine oil and send it off to someone like Blackstone Labs (https://www.blackstone-labs.com).  If there’s a metal-on-metal problem where the parts are lubricated a simple lab test will show up what ends up in your oil (e.g. large amounts of copper from the bearings).

How the vehicle drives at night. I’m red/green color blind and a lot of cars have displays/gauges/whatnot that are difficult for me to see. Deep red is particularly troublesome...think what a red light looks like at night from a half mile away. I can see it and I can see that it’s red but it appears fainter to me than…

Our household buys cars cash but if we like the dealer/salesperson enough we’ll let them write a loan for some portion of the purchase. Then we pay the note for six months and pay off the remainder. I think we’ve done this with 2 of the last 5 cars purchased.

NC resident and Duke Energy customer here. Coal isn’t what it used to be here. Duke Energy has an active program to decommission their coal-fired plants thanks to a huge coal ash spill a few years back that’s caused them a fair bit of legal grief. It’s hard to get exact figures but the amount of coal-fired plants has…

“GASOLINE IN LEFT EAR WHILE CHANGING FUEL FILTER”

That’s because they mostly play to the Southern California housing market. We wound up looking at houses in the northern San Diego/southern Orange County area and jeebus I swear every third place had the same Lowe’s bargain-bin “makeovers.” And yeah, yep you’re looking at 800K unless you’re buying a house that hasn’t…

I suspect there’s some history there...at one point disk brakes suddenly became A Thing. A long time ago my Dad was looking to replace our aging 1967 Fairlane wagon. The Volvo dealer took us (my Dad, my Mom, myself and one of my 5 siblings) out for a test drive. The highlight of this drive was a 70 mph run down a…

Also, I think the president of South Korea deserves some credit too.

I worked with a couple of Germans who were over here in the U.S. on a joint project. NOTE: this was in Raleigh, North Carolina and about 4 hours’ drive from the beaches. These guys loved the beaches. Every weekend they’d book it to the ocean and drive their rental cars like they were stolen.