Too bad this doesn’t apply to Texas. I bought a brand new Toshiba Satellite in August of ‘06, and it had a MatSHITa drive in it that were notorious for crapping out. I was even told that by a warranty repair place when I got my video card replaced under warranty. Half of the time the ODD works, the other half it…

It used to be a Ponitac dealership, but now it’s a Buick and GMC dealer.

Mater is able to move his mirrors. Plus, we have power mirrors that not only move the mirror itself, but also power folding mirrors, that move the whole housing. Why would the Cars universe not have this as well??

I agree, as long as I can have one like this. Dirt and all.

Edit: yeah, this is a VT (post-Audi), but I’d drive my GT like this.

What’s the setup to have a clock like that on the monitor??

They showed how he lost his left headlight in one of the Cars Toons: Mater’s Tall Tales shorts (Mater Private Eye).

My wife and I use this on our kids. Since we have a limited budget and storage in our house, this give us just the right amount of gifts under the tree, without too much extra stuff accumulating. We’ve even tried to extend the idea for the grandparents to use as well.

No, the one in video that says gas, with the tires and the auto shop.

This. My boys love my Hot Wheels, Ninja Turtles, Star Wars (late-90s Kenner ones), and Micro Machines toys.

Yep, I’me enjoying reliving my childhood through my kids playing with my old toys at my parent’s house.

I had the gas station as a kid, and always wanted more of the sets to make a bigger city, but alas, Santa missed that part of my list.

I got one as a kid, probably older than I should have. But that meant I took care of it better. As a result, my kids now play with it whenever we visit my parents house. Although, I remembered having a bigger collection of Micro Machines than what is at the house now.

My kids love it, and I love that they love it.

I recently gave my notice to my former employer. He didn’t take it particularly well, as he asked for my shop/office key immediately. I returned to work the following Monday (notice given the previous Thursday, with a scheduled day off on Friday), and was told that Friday was my last day. He gave an excuse that there…

I grew up in Texas with this trick. It seemed like we only had to use it once or twice every winter, but we never had any busted pipes. My wife thought I was crazy for letting the faucets trickle (her family never did it), but we were broke first-time homeowners, and wouldn't have had the money to fix the broken…

Yep, I went through a few fan motors because of a filter that was too restrictive. Granted, my original fan motor was always noisy on startup, and I had to guess at the right specs for the replacement because the motor nameplate sticker was damaged. I originally used a 1/3HP, but with the restrictive filter, it kept…

With my first car, I dumped (not literally, just stored behind the garage) the donut spare tire, and went to a junk yard and spent just a little bit of cash on a full size wheel (I had steelies with hubcaps). Went to Discount Tire, and had them mount a tire on it that matched the other tires. It fit in the same space…

We do the "$5 bill into a jar": whenever you have a $5 bill, you take it out of your wallet/purse, and put it in a jar, saving it. When the jar is full, you end up having a good amount of money to spend on something. We don't use much cash in our house, so our savings are a bit slow, but whenever my wife or I get a…

I have what I consider a Metric Shitload (shittonne?) of baseball, football, and comic cards. Do you know what the conversion to Metric fucktonne is? haha

And knowing is half the battle!

What about a hospital lobby/waiting room? Lots of people sleep there over night, and an easy alibi is that a relative is a patient, and you need to stay there overnight for another relative.