Our mass transit in Dallas seems largely geared toward getting people in and out of downtown from the northern suburbs. If I worked downtown or anywhere not too far from the lines, I’d take the train every day, but both my wife and I are employed by suburban employers, so there are little-to-no mass transit options.…

The dealership experience in Dallas and McKinney seemed to be severely lacking, especially after the repo men came and hauled all their inventory away.

I’ve done three Carmax car sales. One was a pick-up the dealership I was buying my new car at wouldn’t take in trade. One was a pick-up that the dealership offered less than half as much in trade as Carmax. And the third was a very high mileage Audi that had some broken stuff that I didn’t want to hear about from the…

Though only if you have other itemized deductions to overcome the standard deduction (which, I know, a lot of people do. I don’t come anywhere close personally).

As long as it has too many buttons and the ignition on the left hand side, it’s a Porsche.

Tiguan SEL 4Motion with 3rd row seating is $35K, but that wouldn’t be my first choice.

I heard Mickey Rooney was their second choice if Montalban turned them down.

Given how even a frivolous lawsuit can cost a good deal of time and effort, I’d rather not even have there be a question as to whether I can earn a living for two years should my employer decide he doesn’t need me anymore.

Yeah. I hate that. And I especially hate it when it’s like “price reflects $1,000 for existing Kia owners and $1,000 for customers new to Kia”

I had a job offer last year that I was about to take only to have the employer spring an amazingly broad non-compete at the very end of the “new hire” paperwork. It effectively said that if I ever quit or if they ever chose to fire me or lay me off, I agreed to not do any kind of accounting work at all in any of the…

I was okay with the shady pricing*, but I was out once I saw they used ‘your’ when they meant ‘you’re’

When I was 15, my then-girlfriend had a then-new Fiero GT. We spent so much time making out in that car that I’m pretty sure sitting in one today would cause a sense-memory erection.

Shit. I’m old. I still think of Mark Boone Jr. as the hotel clerk from Memento.

In retrospect, that was nice of Porsche to make it easier on us like that.

Porsche was all about the number names and then went on a whole real name spree with Boxster, Cayman, Cayenne, Panamera, Macan, Taycan, etc. and was then like... “despite two decades of history, let’s start calling the Boxster the 718"

One of the things that attracted me to my current house was that it was very close to a rail line that had been purchased by the area light rail organization which had plans to expand basically right to my neighborhood very soon, reportedly.

Parents’ cars can get surprisingly disgusting in a very short period of time. Those little monsters are pigs.

I have never been randomly selected for additional screening.

The other daughter’s love of pastel-colored VW Beetles evens it out a little.

I only know because my 10 year-old daughter is obsessed with Huracans for some reason, so she’s told me every.single.thing about them.