The ritual is very simple.

I’d say the most important thing is taking it to a mechanic BEFORE you buy it. Get it inspected. After that, change fluids, filters, brake pads, things you know are consumables on the car, especially ones that are low cost and easy to do. Then give it an exceptionally deep cleaning.

But really, PRE PURCHASE…

Early on when Airbnb was a new thing I had a colleague decide to use the service on a beach trip in Florida with a couple of her girlfriends. Her story is exactly why I will never use the service. The rental was listed as a whole single family home, it was actually the middle unit of a town home complex, the pictures…

Ok - here we go. Content warning for drug use.

,Had a family member get married in Las Vegas, so we did the Air B&B thing. I guess the previous guests were terrible and had been very rough on the place. We found a drug needle outfront in garden. In the garage there was a black garbage bag of unknown contents and very strong terrible smell. No one wanted to…

This suggests the need for a longitudinal test for burger combo meals: buy meals from 6-8 burger burger establishments, taste them every five years.

“Ice-Coldness of Drink” is a mandatory category.

This. No, I am NOT kidding. Put a small dab of white (not gel) toothpaste on a folded up square of newspaper and buff. Then wash it off with soap and water. Toothpaste and newspaper. An ex girlfriend told me about this trick after I expressed my displeasure with having just wasted money on a Turtle Wax Headlight…

I did something similar once. I had borrowed an old Escort (I think — this was decades ago) that came with those old, stupid automatic seat belts. Near the parking brake lever were two small levers which released the automatic belts if needed. When you pulled up one of the levers, a big rectangular panel would start…

Not care related, but when I was in my first year of college my family decided we should take a vacation to the UK as they had some friends we could stay with over there. My then 15 year old brother had never actually flown on a plane before. The one we took was a big Boeing 777 or something.

What’s an Injector seat? Sounds worse than an ejector seat.

I’m importing a Suzuki Cappuccino and I am looking forward to the part where people forget that the rest of the world drives in KPH and think we are doing 120 in a car the size of a matchbox. This despite sitting on the wrong side of the car.

I had a 1998 Buick Regal GS (man I miss that car) that had the traction control button right in the middle of the center console, after a trip to Mohegan Sun Casino in CT with my wife we were on the highway and she asked me what the “Trac” button did and what would happen if she pressed it. I told her its the traction…

I do the same thing. I feel like it cuts the amount of shock loading on suspension wear components.

One I learned from my grandfather which is invaluable since I street-park my cars in New York City: the very first thing I do whenever I get a new car is to grab a towel and a ball peen hammer. I fold the towel up a few times, hold it over the driver’s side fender just behind the wheel well, and give it a nice solid…

We really need to just fully legalize pot and be done with all this nonsense.

This guy’s obviously not local. Everyone knows was Rainer that’s made from sustainably-hunted free-range Northwest Artesians.

I suspect you jest but such people really exist, I’m one of them. When I realized that despite the efforts of my friends, me and alcohol that I don’t stand a chance at hooking up or even landing a date the traditional ways. I began to post in craigslist personals. Found it much easier to open up via email/texting and…

I have a clip on BMW grille/badge on my OG Sorento so people think I drive a X5.

This, seems like corporate is twisting the franchisee to do something about this. I guess if Domino’s was serious about what happens to these cars when they get wrecked, but not seriously enough, they should either buy back the remains from the insurance company or start to self insure in some way to keep these in the…

I lived in Medellin, Colombia for a year and half as a teacher in the early 2000's. Where as now you see foreigners all over Medellin, back then I often felt like I was the only one. The government was battling the guerrilla groups hard then and travel by road was usually a bad idea. Me being an invincible 20…