What kind of car do you drive that it’s broken every weekend? My 14 year old cars only needed a couple of checkups a year (by a reputable mechanic) and a major repair ($400-$700, and one $1200 transmission) every few years. Maybe I’ve been lucky with my used cars, though.

So if you accidentally get a bad apple at the gr0cery store, you’ll never buy apples again? You’re missing out on a possible good marriage. Then again, I don’t know what your standards are for partners. It helps to learn how to choose your apples.

Or negotiate a lower car purchase price, because you’re using cash and can skip all of the fine-print bullshit and get down to haggling!

“Naw! Nothing ever bad happens to people like me!” (Promptly rams flying car into side of building.)

I’m just tired of the overblown hype around them. They’ve been around for 70 years, and no one has made them practical or fun.

I looked at this and thought, ‘Meh, it’s a 1968 Corvette blended with an Opel of the same year.” Then I looked at the date. Whoa! Did Chevy designers steal this concept??? No surprising, since it happened a lot, but still.....

Aaaaaah! Ooooh! Aiee! That looks SO awesome! Like a little Supra! Oh, to know of some place in Canada where I could buy one of these and store it before the prices go up. (Not to sell, but for my personal enjoyment. I don’t ‘invest’ in automobiles.)

Ah, but that’s the thing. They were/are “daytime running lights”, which means they’re on every moment that the car is on, but the ‘night-time’ headlamps are not. You didn’t have to think about them, as you had no control. It’s a Canadian idea which didn’t work here, because people would forget to put on the proper…

Were the headlights actually on? I know many Saturns had mandatory daytime running lights, which are different from the full on headlamps. I remember this because they were the only American car at the time that I knew to have daytime running lights.

That’s your problem, not his.

That’s not a big convertible, so you’re okay.

I’ll just buy it with my tax refund. What? My taxes went UP?? Someone LIED to me!!

Not to mention you can actually see out of them. People are going ape-shit over modern hatchback/crossover rears, but the blind spots are huge compared to a 1990 or earlier sedan.

Buy it, and then LS-swap it! What? Oh, wrong car.

So people waste money bribing themselves and others with lavish lifestyles, and they plea down to filing a false tax retrun. Is it just me, or does that mean they still made a profit on this scam? To me, activity like this is similar to embezzling, but I guess white collar crimes are still taken less seriously. Or…

 I know a guy in Michigan who also has a pair of rusty Sonnetts. Maybe you’re right, and they do come in pairs.

Yeah, but I’m going to lose sleep over this. (Okay, not much sleep.)

Even after saying that, dozens of yahoos are going to screw up their local streams and rivers by trying this. Too bad.

Only the ones who are still in business. That’s capitalism for you.

He finally decided to buy a decent sleeping bag. That comment really worried me. No one should choose a minimalist life without a proper sleeping bag. Oversights like that might kill him someday.