They absolutely care. The superrich would bludgeon their own grandmothers to death if they thought it would get them even a single extra cent. How do you think they got to be so rich? They are first in the line, any line, for a handout of any sort.

Does that really matter?

Truer words never written--well put.

Both.

Still do! 23 cars, buses, and bikes by my last count. Plus a camper trailer and a Honda Motocompacto.

Just another day on Skyline. It's a tricky, twisty road and people frequently get out of their element and wrap it.

Not unlike an RPG

I’ve always wanted to take someone who comes from a country where food scarcity is a thing to a Cheesecake Factory. I just don’t think that they’d understand a business that serves you three days worth of calories in a single meal. Clearly it is one of the things that nudges us collectively down the path of being the…

Mexican Coke ftw!  Whoever supplies the pizza joints around here seems to be regularly stocking Mexican Coke since Covid and I love it!

I know, it was a really strange feeling, but as the years go on I feel like I’m not great at being American.

oh, totally.
And that’s really what the “defund the police” movement is all about. When you’re a hammer (or an armored vehicle), everything looks like a nail.
But of course it’s willfully interpreted as “we don’t want any police at all and we want violent criminals to run the streets”.

He might have a gun!  Don’t want to put ourselves in danger!  See Uvalde, TX.

That American Flag graphic definitely gives off “Solidarity with Trucker Convoy” vibes...

CF is fuckin insane though. I ate there for the first time in March, got a burger and was like ‘There may be too much cheese on this burger’. I love cheese but there’s a line, man!

Restaurants, you do what you need to do to make your business work, and I’m going going to order in a way that makes sense for me. If we don’t see eye to eye, that’s OK, I’ll just go somewhere else.

I never had heard of Pizza Hut till after I left boot camp and was stationed in Wichita Falls, Texas. I grew up on Long Island and we only had Italian Pizza places and Italian restaurants. When I first ate Pizza Hut I was disgusted. It tasted like ketchup on baked, stale bread. There were no “eyetalian” restaurants in…

Where are you now? You are right, a catchment area of 35k seems small for 6 car washes. But it’s probably based mostly on traffic count over the nearby roads.

CA does have weird rules with water recapture making commercial car washes more viable, as they are more regulated. True to what you are saying, the automated…

None of it works these days. Construction prices are too high, and lending costs need to come down. 

The cost of building a car wash is in the neighborhood of $4-6M. This is for a tunnel, conveyorized car wash. It varies a lot by land costs, which are extra on the figure above. A self-serve car wash can be built but most never do, because the costs of that can be $2M+, and won’t have subscriptions, etc.    It is true…

It depends. I took my first cruise ever this past fall, 6 nights. It was not in the Caribbean, 98% of passengers were not American, there were ZERO children, the scenery was great, the food was great, there were only about 275 passengers, and most people did not speak English as their first language. It was wonderful.