Back home, they tend to put giant mounds of dirt and landscaping in the center of the roundabouts, probably because coal rolling shitheads would plow thru the middle given the ability to do so. It’s bad enough in some places that I can’t see across the circle to know if anyone is coming. Otherwise, yeah, it’s a yield;…

What does flashing your high beams twice mean? I assume a high beam flash is telling me I forgot to drop my own high beams, or that the other person is an asshole and wants to blind me.

Got new roundabouts in my rural hometown; promptly had to dodge up onto the curbs because an elderly woman was driving through it the wrong way.

So a bunch of women did exactly what’s expected of them and sent thank you notes? I mean...I do that for people I dislike, too, because it’s a social expectation. It doesn’t mean I actually appreciate what was done for me. Thank you notes are the emptiest bullshit method of communication ever.

Agree. If I’m hairless under my arms, I don’t get nearly as stinky, but as soon as there’s some hair to trap the smells...hooooooboy, sorry to anyone within 3 feet of me. I don’t like needing to shave all the time, but it’s bad enough that I’ll stink myself out if I don’t keep things maintained.

He sounds like the racist folks I knew back in Montana. They’d be harmless old weird people (it’s mostly men, but I’ve met a lot of women like Rusty, too), but they’re been empowered to take out their anger in non-constructive ways. It’s sad and disappointing, especially when you find out that they have ties to…

I like how we’re worrying about these people facing consequences for their horrific actions.

You may be vastly overestimating the amount of time it would take to receive the call, muster a team, and dispatch them to the area. I lived in Bozeman for a while, and it once took 2 hours for a medical specialist to get from Belgrade to the hospital due to weather. In April. And that was on paved roads, in a car, to…

I had an employer try to float something similar past me on my first day. There was no contract, but he started with, “I write erotica and couples massage books. If you’re uncomfortable with that...”

Doomtree calls it Grey Duck. That’s good enough for me.

Not to be the joke deflator on purpose, but maybe he has some safety padding in his pants for the stunt.

Sometime in the late 80s or early 90s, on a stretch of Highway 12 between Elliston and Garrison in Montana, the line painters somehow bungled shit so badly that several miles worth of the lines were off by several feet. I’m not sure how, but their solution was to paint a new set of lines where they’re supposed to be,…

Agree. Plus it’s more interesting to see (and hear) the engineering of a well designed exhaust, rather than one that’s dumbly loud.

I met a girl in college who displayed no overt car fancies, but had a serious and ferocious hatred of Saabs. Her personal email was something like “saabsGoToHell69@whatever.com”

Rented from a show jumper for 3.5 years. Can confirm.

This.

I planned ahead, had a 2 hour layover, and still nearly missed my flight because LAX made me leave the terminal and go back through security to get to my next flight. Checking for construction at the airports you’re visiting is a definite must-do.

Ah, that explains a lot. I had to fly on 24 hours because my dad got sick right after my mom had surgery, and I had to get back to help them. I thought it was a glitch, and no one at the airports I visited on either leg of my trip explained what the deal was, but I do remember there being a series of Ss on my boarding…

Yup, I showed up for a week long work conference dressed in track pants, and realized when I got there I’d only packed my casual pants, not my slacks. Off to the golf store for more, luckily, but was an annoyance.

I used to get boba at a coffee shop in the middle of nowhere in rural America. It was the only place I’ve ever seen (and I live in a city with a substantial Asian population now) that had plum flavored bubble tea.