I’ll take you on on the spit thing. I’ll count up my hours in the kitchens I’ve worked in, stack them up against yours. Mine are quite high, and over quite a range of restaurants.

Two theories may theoretically justify the higher tip dollar amount for the higher entree dollar amount. First, at higher dollar restaurants, a server will typically have fewer tables per unit time (and sometime a smaller area of tables to cover) so they need the higher tips; however, because that server is stretched…

I default to the high side of 20% and go way up from there. But I also go way down from there if I do not see my server at one of a few critical times: first, to get a menu and drink, during any prolonged period where nothing else happens (i.e., check on me), and when it’s time to bring me the check. I don’t punish my…

Cooks don’t spit in food.

Does driving my dad’s pickup truck in an empty field out behind our house count, even if I was like 10?

Yep. Wow. Good sleuthing. That side-by-side pic does it for me.

FTA:

Your 13th (second to last) pic is pretty convincing. Can you post that side-by-side with the closest pic from the article? That’s a pretty distinctive taillight illumination pattern.

maybe ‘05-ish Acura RL?

CP for mileage. That price should get you something similar, something Japanese, with half the mileage. Drivetrain may be fine, but mileage is a good proxy for wear and fatigue on plastic bits and switchgear.

Lurker chiming in here. A number of posters/ commenters are talking about UTIs, but nobody has stopped to spell it out and define it. There may be young naive people reading this who do not actually know what is being discussed.

For me, it’s where I park. I decided early in life that walking across a parking lot is a low-cost action, but driving up close to a grocery store/ mall/ whatever is a high-annoyance, and thus high-cost, action. So I always park in one of the first spaces out by the entrance, and no-where near the building. If it’s a…

Neutral: My last trip to a dealer was very positive. I flew down to Atlanta, because Import Auto Brokers in Marietta had the car I wanted, a bmw 135is. I bought it and drove it home to Mass. My experience was great. Not much else to say.

I was researching world lithium reserves recently, trying to determine if it is even feasible to replace all combustion-engine cars with electric cars. Unsurprisingly, industry groups dispute the tonnage of lithium reserves. But there is some consensus that there is not nearly enough to manufacture the quantity of…

The price is good for what you get. But I always vote according to a realistic scenario in which I ask, “Would I pay that, for that car? The real me, with my real life?” Since I don’t hunt, live in the suburbs of Boston, and need a comfortable year-round commuter, that car just wouldn’t fit in in my driveway.

Wow, looking very good.

Could people please throw in something for scale with this type of pic? Just toss a ballpoint pen in there, and then we’d all get it.

What it will take for me to readily use a fully autonomous taxi is:

Neutral: If an ICE sports car and a hybrid version co-existed, at similar cost and weight, I would consider the hybrid.

The video surmises that the gadget address being on a steep uphill. I suspect it’s just as much for high acceleration.