Sure. And the writer does sound like a hardcore gamer: “I even made sure I found someone who also likes to play video games...”

Silly me—it didn’t occur to me that Patrick might have more information than is contained in the letter that was printed.

Me too. I’d have gone off.

Whose gender bias now?

CarMax offers a lot of convenience, therefore it costs the customer for it.

Genders switched? Isn’t it possible that both partners in this situation are male? At least, that crossed my mind.

Let’s hope that whoever does buy it up is willing to put it up online or something for everyone to read, rather than squirreling it away and keeping it to themselves.

Pretty fascinating! Here’s a site that has a number of different manuals scanned, and apparently it’s different in the 12/1968 UK manual.

Cool, thanks for the link!

But I want to zero-in on something else

The priceless feeling of superiority, maybe?

In the landscape of career opportunity, there is no more promising position than “immediate past president of the United States.”

Psst. Get your solder-headed buddies to stop defaulting on their loans, and we won’t have a problem. Capiche?

And if there’s one big tenant of comic book storytelling...

Very nice!

I think the self-awareness part is a stretch, though. Autonomous vehicles are no different from the broad class of mobile robots in this regard. On the other hand, maybe you’re counting a CEL as a kind of self-diagnosis?

Good point. A Miata was my DD for years, so I understand.

Imagine living a society with people who have lives... well, you’ve said the rest.

The SUV guy was obviously exaggerating, but he has a point: you could see farther in front of you if that SUV were a car, no matter what your following distance is—basic geometry. In heavy traffic, where everyone’s bunched up, I much prefer to be following a car than an SUV, for situation awareness.

For all his straining to use every word he’s ever heard that exceeds letters,

Thanks! Experimentation, here I come.