Cake has so many to choose from. Race Car Ya-yas is the one that sticks in my head for days on end.

A certain somebody is green with envy they didn’t think of this first. This story is being optioned as we speak. Be watching for Ken Block’s Gymkhana Eleven: Texas Twister Teen Tricks

Wow. This is the mostest useful+didnotknow tip on LH in quite a while.

Arkansas: Blinkerphobia. It seems like everyone is afraid to touch the stick that protrudes from the side of their steering column. I think new vehicles shipped into the state are required to have spikes or taser contacts installed on the turn signal stalks.

Go light on the toppings. Seriously.

Before I ask this, two points: 1) I am not denying the likelihood that these individuals are trash people. In fact, that is my default assumption, till proven otherwise, about anyone who calls themselves an influencer. 2) I totally get that expecting freebies because “don’t you know who I am” is not OK at all.

A good sandwich is a balance of flavors and textures

I’d heard that, or some variation, before. It was just well shorthanded and spliced into the thread of the thought in an offhanded Douglas Adams sort of way.

You assumed there were 2 of them but it could have been four or five?

Notable absence from list: taking x-ray images

it’s best to have them inside the tent pissing out

If I’m driving from Denver to Seattle then a 45min break in the drive every couple hundred miles isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Forcing me to get out of the car, wake up, move a round a bit to get the blood pumping, stretching, grab a bite, distracting the mind for a while... It would probably improve my mood and…

See, that sounds waaay worse to me. That sounds to me like I’d be impugning their perception of what was going on; straight up gaslighting. I’d rather tell them I hate that my position makes them feel bad than question their understanding of what’s going on.

You’re always wrong about me. You never give me any credit. I’m never generalizing. I’m always specific, usually to the point of pedanticism. It’s one of my most endearing annoying defining qualities.

This is a weird one to me. I hear what you are saying and I’m sure I have heard/seen the phrase used in exactly the manner you describe, but that just isn’t my experience generally.

I don’t think it does downplay. I think it acknowledges their feelings and expresses that their feelings are important enough to me to affect me, even though I may not, for a myriad possible reasons, believe I should change my stance to placate.

I wonder...maybe when you park your car you open the fuel door, take off the cap, and dangle a chunk of old garden hose from the tank neck? Looks like you done got took and they don’t bother with yours.

“No carmaker today would dare attempt to sell a vehicle so pleasantly, optimistically utilitarian”

It was a bit out there, but I thought reductio ad absurdum was required lest people try to argue the example rather than the logic it was meant to illustrate.

“I’m sorry you feel that way”