So what BMW do you own (or have owned)? This sounds suspiciously like someone who’s been down that road.

Yeah, this is the part that concerns me most. A long, long time ago I worked night shift (11 PM to 7:00 AM) alone at a 7-11 located in a sketchy neighborhood. I only had to pull a knife on one customer, though.

That earned me a felony-level ticket.  Even the state trooper was surprised at how fast I could pass that semi.

You leave the room so that when you’re rear-ended by some yob who’s texting there’s enough room to scrub off energy that would otherwise total your car.  Ask me how I learned this...:-/

I am definitely bigoted against baby boomers who’ve done nothing but fuck up the world for future generations for going on 50 years.

Driving into Nashville on morning I saw a gentleman tailgating a howitzer. The local National Guard often moves equipment on I-24 and this day they were towing a large piece of field artillery...I don’t know my army weapons but it was similar to what you’d see outside the local VFW except for a very long (fifty feet?)…

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.