I had a few of these for rentals in the day. They are dirt cheap for a reason. Not terrible cars, but not very good either, and I am sure they age like milk, not wine. Hard pass. A fast shit car is still a shit car, and these things in no way encouraged you to put your foot down.

Oddly enough, with my eyes closed he sounds just like a friend of mine from NC.

Ugh. You sure do attract the misfortune, my internet friend. I hope they both can have happy lives, and I am sure you are a great Dad to help them with that.

That is totally ridiculous. There is no paid parking in the residential areas of Portland for the most part, and for the couple places where there are residences along the street, you can get a resident permit that lets you park there for free anyway. They actually got rid of all the meters and converted the whole…

I am, in fact, nominally black by many people’s standards and general appearance - my father was a mixed-race dark-skinned South African. And still not worried about it in the slightest.

I at least was dealing with clueless freshmen. They weren’t smart enough to try that sort of thing. I never got much protest, but a decent amount of whining about how HARD it was. I like to think I was and still am a pretty decent teacher (big part of my job today is teaching clients). One reason I aced the classes…

Pretty sure that makes you a bit of a snowflake. <shrug>

I’m from Maine - you are damned right we did.

I actually can’t remember the last time I went through security and they WEREN’T using the new smile for the camera system. All three of my home airports of SRQ, RSW, and PWM have it now, as so do the majors I have flown to recently. So DFW, ATL, DCA and IAD at least. I haven’t flown as much as usual this year.…

Exactly. Those terrorist assholes had nothing on them that was illegal to have on an airplane that morning, yet somehow “airport security” got the blame. The only things that needed to be done was the locked cockpit doors and no longer cooperating with would be hijackers. As I have said here before, I am in no way a…

Technically true, but by that standard so is a hovercraft. And those are not “airplanes” either. Thier own crazy niche of the flying world.

The Mars was the largest Allied WWII flying boat, but it is not even in the top five of largest flying boats ever. The post-war Saunders-Roe Princess was bigger, and so was the pre-War Dornier X. The largest WWII flying boat of all was the German Blohm & Voss BV 238 - which was the biggest airplane period flown by…

New York has this issue too thanks to all of the UN diplomats with immunity.

I think for the big money cities on this list they are a LOT more than that. Like $50+. And because they make so incredibly much money from them, they are absolute Nazi’s about it. My roommate was in Boston not too long ago, and there was a meter maid at his car watching the meter tick away the last couple of minutes,…

A car that is probably safer to drive backwards.

Loving Skeffles choice!

Volvo IS a Chinese company...

Welcome to Florida local news. Where if it bleeds,it leads, and all the “reporters” are both hot and think they are comedians.

I can’t believe this wasn’t the very first comment.

Those 10yo entry-level BMW convertibles are NOT cheap these days. A nice 1-series convertible is a $20K car these days. I have one. Love it!