Oh it’s one of my favorite comments.  And so true! :-D

Maybe you held the spacebar down too long?

Hey, you’re at Rice!  Always loved that aspect of campus when I was there.

I feel like this response deserves more than just a star.  Thank you for sharing a thoughtful, rational comment that really made an impact with me.  I feel the same way, and you expressed it very well.

This happened in real life, too. Literally the pilot’s kid was on the flight deck and disengaged the autopilot. Just in an A310 instead of an A320.

The scenario you describe actually happened in real life. Basically the only difference was that it was an A310 instead of an A320.

This happened in real life, too. Basically exactly the scenario you described. Just an A310 instead of an A320.

So (a) loved that story, and (b) did you buy my grandparents’ old house in Whitestone, NY? Because that is almost EXACTLY what their house and driveway looked like, and I can even picture exactly how she backed out of the garage and clipped the doorframe!

I’d thought that that year was the fiscal year of the funds that were used to order the plane (as opposed to the year it was physically manufactured?)

I’d thought that that year was the fiscal year of the funds that were used to order the plane (as opposed to the year it was physically manufactured?)

They do exist.  Most of the “catches” are “if you forget to cancel the card, you’ll be charged a $495 annual fee” but $500 signup bonuses are not uncommon.  They’re usually paid out as points on the card provider’s rewards program, airline miles, or sometimes even bill credits.  I’ve gotten ones as large as $1,500…

My experience has been that car dealers have let me put up to $5,000 on a credit card when buying a car.  I’ve done it for one new car and one used car, but YMMV. The rest has to be cash (i.e. check or loan.)

Alcohol has a roughly similar model. Manufacturers can only sell to distributors (who I think of as being similar to car dealers), who then sell to retailers. And consumers can usually only purchase from retailers (not manufacturers or even distributors.)

I had something similar happen on my 2016 Sonata Hybrid. As it turned out, there was a setting where I could make the adaptive cruise control more aggressive!

My wife’s OBGYN was actually named Dr. Wiener (except she pronounced it with a long “i”).

Yes - THIS is what I thought of when I read “emergency fuel burn!”

I think you mean “bed”lams ;-)

This almost sounds like preventive karma. Like banking a credit against a potential future screwup (or making up for a past screwup with another customer!)

As a fellow Texan, it took me a minute too. Had to figure out that the “ph” is not read as “f”, but rather as “mep-hew?” with a hard p. Then it made more sense.