Your sarcasm meter is on the fritz.

I do rather wish I’d had an opportunity to go on a cruise once, but overall, the world will likely be a better place without them.

...ignoring our parents’ pleas for us to come home

Talk about plagues that need more money and research applied to curing them...

Well, sure, but nobody actually drives the length of Alaska. I’d wager a few hundred thousand do so in Florida every year.

I once compared driving in the U.S. to driving in Europe by noting that driving from Seattle to Key West is almost as far as driving from Paris to China.

As long as you have gap insurance, anyway.

It’s possible that the Toronto auto show doesn’t attract quite the same level of global attention/visitors as Detroit...

Oh, I know, I just can’t help myself when it comes to unnecessary pedantry.

You think the rental companies will even bother replacing them? Certainly not for quite a while.

Fumes are in general more flammable, although I don’t know how being contained in a tank changes the calculus.

My Jeep is used to that abuse by now.

It was!

No, he passed away some time later.

I rented a convertible Mustang in Orlando several years ago to go on a long road trip to Key West (holy cow does it take forever to traverse Florida) with my uncle, who was in a losing battle with cancer at the time.

I haven’t had that much fun on a Friday night in a long time, or at least it feels like forever since the world turned off.

I resemble that remark.

Son of a gun. TIL.