A letter of counseling is a level of discipline in law enforcement. It’s not just the Chief wagging his finger at you. Basically it’s documentation that you fucked up and it goes into your personnel file. If behavior continues, it’s now part of the Internal Affairs investigation where they build a case to suspend you…

This is the Chief laying the groundwork to hang the primary officer and/or the sergeant out to dry to save his own ass.

29 years ago.

90% of my experience with car salesmen is they have been working there about two weeks and know nothing about the products they sell. They have no people skills and absolutely cannot sense when they have lost the customer. They are nothing more than a gatekeeper I must endure to purchase something I want. They provide…

I love how the G-Wagon is still revered. It’s literally the German version of the Humvee. A military vehicle from the 70's that they put leather seats and a CD player in and sold it for six figures. Why did the Hummer become an embarrassment, but the G-Wagon is still an aspirational vehicle?

That dude seriously hates laborers.  I’m surprised he hasn’t thrown out a, “they should be grateful they have a job at all!”

Car reviews/first impressions of average cars middle class people can afford.

I’m not a born-again CarMax promoter, but I did enjoy the sales process over nearly every other sales experience I’ve had at traditional dealerships. We bought my wife’s Audi S5 right at the beginning of the pandemic over email and some phone calls from a couple states away. They were great too, but they were also…

I used to be pretty anti-Carmax just for the reason you listed above. They were always 10%+ more expensive than anywhere else. What I learned is that they are more expensive with common, popular stuff. Run-of-the-mill CUV’s, mid-size sedans, etc. Get into the more niche stuff like sports cars and luxury sedans (not…

This would be like waxing poetic about a clean Mitsubishi Mirage in 30 years.  Just the most basic penalty box that people only bought because they needed an upgrade from the bus.

I cannot believe how people present things for sale.  They obviously washed it for the pics.  You couldn’t grab some Simple Green or 409 and an old toothbrush and knock that grime off the wheels?  It takes like 10 minutes and makes a huge difference.  Now it just looks like it’s been abused and only partially covered…

Eh, yes, he was lucky, but at the same time I can understand why it happened. He’s gaining 2 seconds a lap on the leaders and has a real shot at winning a race in over a decade. He’s approaching Mr. Rolling Chicane Jimmie Johnson who has been told over the radio to block Grosjean to protect his teammate. Grosjean had…

I’m amazed at how good the ZDX looks compared to how ungainly the Honda Crosstour looks.

There it is.  Well done.

I stand corrected.  That is atrocious.  It looks like it’s being towed by two sets of dollies.

Widebody fixes everything.

He would tell stories about being “pissed” (drunk) and people would ask him why was he mad?

My British college roommate asked us if we wanted to go smoke a fag with him.  He quickly learned to start calling them cigarettes in America.

I think I saw this truck last week. We drove to Monterey for the Indy Car race and I saw one of these with this livery in the Bay Area. I don’t know how many they have running around, but I remember thinking that I wasn’t sure if these were in the public’s hands yet or not.

Ramming speed!