Holy hell I maybe hit McD’s once a month and only because I’m coming home at like midnight from cards or D&D and I’m starving.

I thought 44 trips to McDonald’s in a year was an excessive amount of fast food.  That’s before I got to the 149 total trips.

No no no, but you don’t understand, I reaaaally want it. 

“The dealership dropped off a 2019 cx-5 GT Premium today and I LOVE IT. But the monthly is gonna be higher than I wanna pay.”

Ha my dad said the same about fuel. Nobody cared. He was a General guy until he got a job working for a Germany company and started driving Audi’s and Mercedes as company cars.. I remember we had a really early 190e followed by a W124 but by then he had almost bought a 5000 for my mom. That was such an amazing…

“I will admit that, about a year ago this time, I didn’t totally grasp how the economy worked in terms of dealers and used cars: They are all pretty much coming off leases, right?”

1st Gear: Mrs. Ghost and I are both pretty much constantly getting mailers, emails, and phone calls from dealerships trying to buy our cars.

The lack of understanding of the economy is really one of the qualities that shines through in most of Erik’s articles.

“I didn’t totally grasp how the economy worked in terms of dealers and used cars”

That whole “if you have to ask, you weren’t there”, thing definitely applies to the Cutlass. They were big, soft (except for the 442, which was fucking awesome...the day I sold that thing...sigh), comfortable cars that got you where you were going and may have gotten you laid once you got there.

My dad had a Cutlass Supreme Brougham Coupe.  That thing was a pussy wagon in it’s day.  I had new step-moms every week.

Bourbon. And, like Jennifer Aniston, I limit it to just one bottle.

My mother is an FA. I can tell you her working during covid times has been absolute hell on her. It’s like people took what tiny bit of awareness, manners, and general give a damn and threw it out on the tarmac. Just the other day she had to remove an entire family off a plane. Then watched as the mother physically…

Skip the fine and go straight to the hard time. Prosecute every instance. And mandate that in the event of misbehavior, the pilot must return to the airport of origin to disembark the passenger to the local cops there. And they name that passenger’s bad behavior and the passenger as the reason to everyone else on the…

It really is a terrible phrase. It almost always is referring to a false-equivalence, as it is here, but I guess that’s too many syllables.

All paper bags are in short supply in the US mainly due to an adhesive shortage that was caused by the unprecedented cold snap in Texas that damaged adhesive production facilities. I knew this was coming months ago when paper bag manufacturers announced a temporary halting of production of paper grocery bags with…

Right?

Komrade Shilling believes that there is only one side to every issue, and that is the side of the party.

1st Gear: I really genuinely think the worst consequence of climate change is our rapidly changing weather patterns. In the midwestern city I live in, we don’t really have spring or fall anymore, just extended summer and winter with very brief respites. Winter is way more mild, summer is way hotter, and we have much mo…

As far as spirited driving goes I’m totally in the personal responsibility camp. Not only should a licensed driver know better but that kind of driving would be against traffic laws.