Agreed.

It’s really hard to make “I Can’t Wake Up” stop. You can’t exit it without clearing the puzzle unless you turn off the whole phone.

I have been using this app for a few months. It truly is evil, but it does yank my butt out of bed, mostly out of fear my spouse will smash my phone if I don’t turn the alarm off quickly.

When/if the car loan market implodes, I think that will drive more people back to smaller vehicles. Right now you can easily get a 7 year loan on a CUV...when that stops, the same dollars will only be able to fund a 5 year loan on a smaller/lower priced vehicle.

Oh god, my wife’s Jetta. That Jetta was awful. It wasn’t a bad car, it didn’t have any egregious problems, it was more the little things that added up to an awful experience.

Because Texas has discussed secession far longer than CA, and it is a weird obsession with some Texans. No joke, there’s even fiction written about how a seceded Texas would be the greatest place in the world and how they go to war with the USA and win and stuff....it’s crazy.

So basically the USA would work a lot like AT&T being broken down and then re-forming...far flung regional pieces that slowly merge back into one.

You’d get a ton of pushback from central/West NJ, especially Hunterdon and Somerset county. Hunterdon would probably want to go to PA, but for geographic and economic reasons both counties make more sense in northern NJ. But culturally they’re a far better fit for PA than NY.

There is no way California exits without Texas right behind them.

That or ice skate racing...she was getting her Apollo Ono on with her form there. It was impressive.

I had the same thought. That, and if you’re looking for bang for your buck, the Kia Niro is going to get you 40mpg and a better infotainment system.

That’s what I’ve heard. Unfortunately, this was a 2011(?) Jetta, so not nearly as roomy.

That’s because no one at VW has ever tried to fit a person or child in the back of any VW car-my wife called me crying 3 months after our son was born that we needed to upgrade her out of a Jetta ASAP because she was hurting her back trying to fit the carseat. In a four door sedan. The damn Jetta had such a low…

Agreed.

I once studded up a canvas jacket like that in college. My total cost was the $0.50 the jacket cost me at a dirty thrift store and the $2 I spent on a bag of studs.

Hmm...I’ve had some oddities in cars though I don’t know if they count as quirks.

I sure won’t. I’d generally prefer to buy a Honda or Toyota (mostly because I’ve had a really good experience with my current Toyota and my brother in law swears by Honda), but not for an 80 mile range. My daily commute is 50 miles round trip, so on a cold day that means I’d get....3/4 of the way home? Maybe?

GRMN is the stock symbol for Garmin, so it will forever be the Yaris Garmin in my brain.

I agree! I regret not buying an XTerra a few years ago, and I still miss my parents old mid-90s Pathfinder. I learned to drive on that car, and if Nissan made an SUV that was exactly like the Pathfinder of 20 years ago I would be first in line.

I am confused. So is Atlantic America it’s own country, but we might join the EU? That makes no sense. It would make far more sense if England came along and just offered to buy back the original 13 colonies, and we’ll just pretend the whole American Revolution thing never happened.