I hear ya. I’m scared of heights, don’t mind flying though, and it’s not the thought of falling that scares me. It’s the thought of hitting the ground that does.

Being a contractor, as the news story claimed, odds are he received very little to no training on both the equipment and dangerous fluids he may come into contact with.

For my application the factory filter is actually among the cheaper choices.

Wankel was the engine design, not an indivdual design’s designation.

Did you notice the touch screen HVAC controls? Not a tactile feeling to be had.

When have you ever seen a gas tank under the drivers side floorpan? They’re almost exclusively in the back under the seat, forward of the axle.

The Canadian Armed Forces only show up in Toronto after it snows a few inches and they need the help.

There’s a long list of shows you can apologize for before that one.

His head would explode at a strip club, the women are buck naked and you can buy alcohol. From what I understand you can have one or the other in most of the US, I could also be completely wrong.

Nah. She probably brags to her friends about how “hip”, “cool” and “trendy” her new neighborhood is.

Met a long time friend and his girlfriend for supper a couple weeks ago. Time for desert cam and she (the girlfriend) asked if X item was gluten free. I almost told her to get the fuck outta here.

It’s a white, truck. He’ll have a hard time selling that to a jury.

Actually it’s a Jeep.

I was using scrap as a general term indicating the end of service life. Most vehicles with any value usually end up at a junkyard first.

150,000 miles is probably more related to the entire vehicle’s life span. Some cars suffer catastrophic failure early, some are in accidents etc. And realistically, by the time most vehicles get that mileage on them they’re essentially worthless so any failure usually results in them either being offloaded for cheap…

Nobody except for maybe the odd fleet buys a base model truck.

And dealerships will continue to pass on those “lessons” to people with no clue.

That’s assuming you make an insurance claim at all. If one dealer had 1 car stolen, it would probably be better for them financially in the long run to just cover the loss. Making a $50,000 insurance claim on a policy that covers millions of dollars of inventory and fixed assets would easily increase premiums and…

In the case of Caterpillar, the jobs that left were union ones and the ones remain are not. Make of that what you please.

That’s a unique way of looking at things.