Sometimes things happen and you have to make your financial decisions based on your monthly income. I was driving a rusted out ‘91 Suburban that got 8 mpg. I had already sunk some money into replacing some parts, but I could tell this thing was going to be a money pit. On top of it, when I got it smogged, the guy said…

I have this problem at home. Wife constantly wants to upgrade her phone, clothing, etc. She got mad at me because we are at our two year mark on our phones and I didn’t want to get a new one. I told her my phone still works perfectly well and does what I want it to. Why tack on another $35/mo on my phone bill to pay…

Bad Ass.

While we’re on the subject of people knowing how the controls in their vehicle work, can we have a class for morons that think wipers only have two speeds? Hurricane downpour or off? It seems to be getting worse. I will be driving around in a very light sprinkle. I might pull the Mist function every few minutes at…

Standard Cab, Long Bed Pickups. Why does everybody insist on Crew Cabs with 4 foot beds? And don’t give me the excuse of, “Oh, I have to haul my family around.” Get a car for that. A giant truck is not a grocery-getter/soccer practice hauler.

When I was a teenager, I raced at our local asphalt short track for a few years. I remember one day during practice I was coming out of turn 2 just like I always did. About a third of the way down the straight, the car just snapped around and I spun into the infield. When I came in and talked to my crew chief I said I…

I came here for this. Thank you.

When ‘keeping it real’ goes wrong.

There is an intersection I go through on my way home that had two pedestrians (drunk homeless crossing 100 feet down from the metered crosswalk) that were struck by vehicles, one fatally, within a two week period. All of a sudden that intersection has been reprogrammed for about a 3 hour period to give priority to a…

I am convinced that when I leave early for work I am guaranteed to hit every light green and not slow down once. If I'm 10 minutes late, every light is red and pedestrians at every single crosswalk without fail. This has proven true so many times that there's no way it can be coincidental.

Drive-thru’s work this way as well. As soon as you put it in neutral and pull the handbrake, the line will immediately start moving.

Now that you mention it, I don’t remember the last time I saw an Aveo on the street.

The only way to make the zipper merge work is to not announce a merge point until almost the last second. As long as you give miles of notice you’re always going to have the early mergers that get upset at the late mergers.

Gotta love the assholes that can't look you in the eye as they commit their assholery. Red light runners are famous for this. They stare straight ahead like they were in a neck brace as they avoid the judgement of everybody they are delaying so they can continue on to Starbucks 30 seconds sooner.

73.6% of all stats are made up on the spot.

There is a situation like this near Sonoma Raceway that is a permanent thing. The right lane continues on East towards Sacramento. The left lane comes to a stop light that turns left toward the track. The right lane is always backed up for literally miles as people are heading East toward 80. The left lane is usually…

I wanted one of these so bad as a kid, it hurt.

I wanted one of these so bad as a kid, it hurt.

I wanted one of these so bad as a kid, it hurt.