first thought? must be nice to have a rich family...

i repair things. or bring them to the scrapyard for lunch money after i’ve collected a truck-beds-worth of them.

the strap is flexible as braided nylon tends to be.

i feel like it would be fun to issue a DMCA on one of torchinski’s videos now just to make the point...

alternate headline and first line:

yay! physics!

a cop once told me “after what i’ve seen, even if i was simply accused of stealing a candy bar, you can bet the only words out of my mouth as soon as they arrest me is ‘lawyer’. there’s no way i’d ever even consider trying to defend myself.”

well yeah. it’s easy to drive through the muddy median while texting.

any bets on the over/under on the car now being used for crime spree’s and/or lunch runs at the dealer?

sounds great.  oh, you want me to mount your tv on the wall?  that’ll be $700.  when you make me walk 1/4 mile with all my tools, time don’t come cheap!

many a chrysler mechanic has stories about these. especially in the rust belt.

i’d disassemble it myself as i get bored in traffic!

well, technically, it was built in a shed...

one question i’ve never gotten.

i worked at a saab dealer for a while in high school, near the beginning of GM’s takeover of the brand. so they had some surplus “OnStar Equipped” magnetic signs to promote the feature on the showroom cars. they eventually went to the dumpster, and magically found their way onto the side of my 1994 chrysler lebaron. i…

i’ve pursued that conversation a few times...

i always ‘enjoy’ the unsolicited interactions at the gas station like that.

at least once a month, i get to repeat this

it also assumes that it’s working. seems every “i’m doing a roadtrip in an evand making an article about it to prove i can cross the country in an ev” article always has at least 2-3 faulty chargers that force their hands to travel on ‘fumes’ to the next possible site, or barter with AAA for towing to the next…

and farmers...