Take your star for the far more esoteric reference.

For what it is worth, I wanted a Moeller, too.

Ahhhhh. “Air Gap”
Someone who gets it.  I am a little mad at how far I had to scroll through armchair quarterbacks to find one.

A lot of the adventure is going on instagram @davidntracy and twitter.

I am in Virginia, and we have Sheetz. I think I was in one once that wasn’t filthy and didn’t smell like feet and self-loathing. That may have been a fever dream.
Here, anyone with self-respect goes to the WaWa.

Well, then, WalMart Shoes, it seems we have different definitions of “gearhead”, and I am fine with it (just like I was in the OP.)

In my world, the person that is super into Hyundai’s is a geek. They can become a gearhead as soon as they crack the hood or crawl under the car (not exclusively of anything else, but you…

Well, I appreciate the feedback.
In retrospect, maybe there should have been a bigger gap between the two sentences. With the separation of clauses, they wouldn’t feed one another.

The only defense I have is that my local circle does not equate gearhead with enthusiast. We don’t think they are exclusive of each other…

I’m not really trying to make a bad faith argument. I just feel like I got blasted for having an opinion that is different from, like, two people out of those that replied.
Am I making a bad faith argument? I just didn’t let my half of the conversation get off track with tangents and “whatabouts”
Someone tell me if I am…

Nope. I made an assertion, one with which I am quite comfortable.
Then I asked a question.
The question was, technically, a “yes/no” question.
You didn’t answer that. You decided what my “standard” was (somehow extrapolated from the very few sentences I wrote and, apparently, nothing else), started talking about…

“Quit gate keeping.”
I said, right off the bat, “We have different definitions of ‘gearhead’.” Is it not okay that we have different definitions?

Also, it should be “... of an enthusiast than you or I me.”

“...to enjoy the mild confusion I’d sow among gearheads (at least the hyper-alert ones).”

A few things:
1. The link to “modern, useless, and expensive-to-repair” bumpers takes me to a page that wants me to buy cbd gummies.
WTF.

2. Modern bumpers cut through the air. How they do that is “used” far more frequently then how they crash. I get it; the crash is important, but so is fuel economy. I would not call…

Nope. 2002 bug-eye, 5sp. (I think it was 2002; it was definitely a bug-eye).

Yeah.  Having sold my WRX (that I wrecked twice) with a clean Carfax and found easily identifiable overspray on potential used buys, I would suggest that Carfax is worse than useless; it gives false positives.

He MAY have meant CarMax, which would be better.  I will stick to CarFax telling me if the thing MAY have been hit, but certainly not their pricing.

“What color is the dress?”

We may not be using the same barometer here. I think we would agree that the windscreen turning blank is, already, the difference between the scenario and reality.
That said, and so we can fully understand each other, are you suggesting the act of checking one’s phone is a victimless crime? Or, is it the subsequent…

Your view is fine; it is yours.
You may also take the view that 2+2=5.
It doesn’t change that it is just wrong.

The definition of ‘accident’ includes the concept of ‘unforeseen circumstances.’
That is what happens during the time you take your eyes off the road.

“I checked this stretch of road before I looked at my…

First off, damn all wars...
But, if we had to have one, I could only hope my wife would be that badassed.

I promise; that is his plan. He expects to sell the Lexus there and return in the FC.
It is insane.

This will sound insane, but, if I understand the story correctly, he intends to drive the FC back.
The FC.
Whiskey.  Tango.  Foxtrot.