And by “deal with it”, you mean set that motherfucker on fire, right? 

Lol, get her a 96 month lease and roll the negative equity into the new loan. If she was dumb enough to do a 5 year lease, she’ll probably bite and think you're a hero.

“She wants to return the lease (surrender the vehicle) which I said that’s fine but she needs to pay the remaining payments plus any overage she has. After she berated me because the manufacturer should take care of the payment because she’s not driving it anymore,”

Who do you think runs the banks offering those loans? Who do you think runs the auto companies making more expensive cars? Who do you think writes the legislation mandating more features? Who do you think gutted the economy and told successive generations that they’re not working hard enough?

Everyone seems to missing some key elements of the first story - that they were in a lease-to-buy deal and one partner has changed her mind. It’s possible that she needs to accept that she can’t have an SUV. It was probably a bad idea to lease in the first place, but it’s a lot less stupid if they were planning on…

A: Tell your wife to stow that shit about getting an SUV, and keep the car that doesn’t handle like a refrigerator. She’ll eventually get over not having the same car as the other parents at the pickup area.

He’s not asking how the lease works. He’s asking if, given how the lease works, and given that he fucked up, what options are open to him going forward. That’s not an unreasonable thing to ask someone who has helped other people deal with similar issues.

So here’s a similar scenario I’m currently dealing with. I leased a car to someone 4 years ago who wanted some small and cheap. She decided on a leasing option because using her trade in as money down the payment was stupidly low. Fast forward to a few months ago and she’s outgrown the lease but still has 1 year left…

“There are really only two ways out of this.”

I’ve been reliably told one of the main reasons you should buy a Honda Element is because you can clean it exactly like this.

I’ve often maintained that both him and Steven Pinker intentionally maintain their ludicrous hairstyles because it’s all part of their cosplaying as an intellectual, and they’re both so dumb to think that “well, Einstein had crazy hair, so obviously crazy hair is necessary to be a genius!” It’s like when Rick Perry…

A wiser man than I summed him up best- Gladwell writes books for people who don’t read books.

He’ll address those inconsistencies in his upcoming book, Not Only Just the Tip-ping Point

Gladwell has made an absolute killing by writing “Maybe just trust your gut” to boomers who just wanted confirmation bias that everything they think is right anyway.

Also, you don’t need a PhD to understand child rape/molestation. Paterno was a force and an institution at Penn State. He didn’t do that by being a kindly…

Simmons: Right.

In Gladwell’s defense, the Penn State coaching staff and administration probably spent more than 10,000 hours raping children and ignoring it, so he’d have to reject the entire premise of one of his own books if he didn’t recognize their expertise in the field.

Dear Max -- it’s true that we can’t expect leaders to know everything. But I think we can expect even the dumbest leader to call the cops when it comes to child rape.

I had a 2003 Sentra SE-R Spec-V. In 6th gear I could floor it and still accelerate up Pacheco pass onto I5. It was a quick little car. Granted it was only like 187HP but at the time that was pretty good for a small car.

Path-etic

How many swallows would it take to carry a motorcycle?