How oily are your feet?
And any issues with running feet into the pedals will surely only be made worse after making them even larger by installing shoes.

Wait. Did you say hiring a photographer to take prom photos? Forget the location; let’s focus on the act of hiring a photographer for a high school dance.

Oh the hitch is really low huh?
It looks like the same draw-tite hitch part number is recommended for mk5 wagons as for mk7 wagons, and it sits higher than the bottom of the bumper cover.

Fair point. I do get awfully hung up on ground clearance and corresponding vehicle height. I must remind myself that the vehicle characteristic I value most, driving dynamics, isn’t even on the radar for many. The fuel economy on that HRV is even really good for gasoline. I’m not sure the HRV is representative of the…

This one is more of a lie-of-omission type of thing:
My kids are entirely unaware that automatic transmissions have been invented. I’m going to let them live in this blissful ignorance as long as I can. Hopefully well past when they start driving.

You may call a crossover “reasonably sized”, but most of them I see would be better described as “pretty huge” with “offroad capability”. They represent exactly the unnecessary capability you bemoan. That’s where the hate for them comes from, IMO.
A hatch or wagon would be right sized for most, and they could trade…

Hear hear!
Buy the car you need 99% of the time. RENT the car you need 1% of the time.

I did.
But the Insight was nothing like an electric car.

Precisely!
Best case scenario: An unsafe situation is created, she gets to her destination slower, and I get to my destination in about the same time I would have if she would have just followed the rules.

How is somebody that spends his weekends in the mud at an ORV park not a “real” off-roader?
Sorry your hobby became more popular, I guess. But dentists have as much right to enjoy off-road driving as you do. With whatever mods they feel like spending their money on.

If they have a signal on to indicate their intention to come into my lane AND are going freeway speed, I’ll also use something like the nose rule and speed up or slow down to accommodate. But that’s exceptionally rare here. Most cars “merge” at 20mph below the posted limit. If their nose is ahead of me, it usually…

That one might be universal on narrow 2 lane roads. And yes, it’s bullshit. In every case: adhere to right of way, and everything goes more smoothly for everyone. But jerks want to take it when it’s not theirs, and other jerks (or possibly the same ones) want to give it up when it should be theirs.

The worst part about having kids: exposure to other parents.
It makes sense when you think about it. In most of our regular lives (pas high school), we’ve basically controlled what subset of humanity we’re exposed to. Your education and career path influence who you’re going to spend your time around in a work…

Giving up the right of way as a courtesy.

Damn. Good answers sir or madam.

Youtube!
It almost doesn’t matter what the task is, somebody has done a tutorial on youtube.

“If you need a car to get to work, and you’ve let your wheel bearing get so bad the car is undriveable, you’ve a high-stress repair job ahead of you. And nothing sucks more than high-stress wrenching.”

“When I asked which cars Ford looked at as sales competitors for the Mustang, a Ford rep said: ‘All sports cars. Porsche, Audi TT, Camaro, Challenger, Nissan, etc.’”

I was too distracted by the skinny arms to even notice the glasses until you pointed them out. Is that real? Maybe the photo has been doctored? Because damn those are some bony arms. And on top of it, they appear to fill out the shirt! What happens when somebody that did a pullup (or even just ate a cheeseburger) once…

I’m in the U.S. Both VW’s website and my local dealer say you can only get the higher trims with an auto. I’d think if my dealer were able to get the manual transmission for me, they would have. They literally watched me walk out the door to go buy a lightly used one instead.