My car doesn’t stink, perse. I bought a used Accord. It was only a year old and immaculate condition. The best part was that it smelled like fresh baked biscuits. I’ve had it for three years now and since I’ve been hauling my kids around, it doesn’t exactly smell like biscuits. Not fresh baked biscuits at least.

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I have to take much of the Progressive talk with a lot of skepticism considering all the chaos (read: riots, not simple protests) and grief (high taxes, high cost of living, skyrocketing welfare demands, rising crime) that people living in Liberal near-Utopias have to deal with.

Years ago, before the tinting and painting was a thing, Maaco painted my headlights and 3rd brake light. When I complained, they asked, “What do you want us to do?” Hell, for a couple hundred dollars I should have known I was dealing with people that paint cars for the recreational ‘high’.

Yup. Pretty solid Governor. Waaay better than Perry or Queen Ann.

Cheap Harley-Davidson metal sign art in a garage owned by someone under 30 years old. It speaks volumes of warnings to a future spouse about what their SO will aspire to be like in their older years.

Don’t know about your father, but mine is more likely to come around to my ideas if given choices and time to think about it in private where they can really think about their condition.

Yes.

My father was a Federal LEO, but has recently decided that he isn’t capable of operating a gun safely. Now he has a big can of bear spray for when (not if) the criminals break in.

It’s a more drastic move, but at a certain point the family needs to be granted conservatorship over the elder. That way even if they go and make some really bad financial decision, it wouldn’t be an enforceable contract. Sure the dealership or other business would be upset, but at the end of the day, you cannot…

The thing I’ve noticed is that older vehicles, regardless of condition or mileage, don’t get appraised for much by Car Max, Carvana or Vroom. That’s probably because there is more risk that people will have warranty issues and the vehicles sell for less (less room to bake in profit margin). The cars will usually end…

That’s my wife’s approach to figuring out when to replace a car. Her threshold now is “1" though. Her first and second cars were a Ford Probe and Saturn S-Series. The latter of the two left her stranded so much that she almost married a tow truck driver. She no longer tolerates unreliable cars. Lucky for me her last…

In April Michigan was certainly in trouble. She definitely had to do something more drastic after failing to act earlier. In all fairness, Michigan was one of the first batch to be hit hard before the US woke up to how bad things could get in a short amount of time. It’s good to hear that the state is doing much…

Maybe she had good intentions, maybe not. To a lot of people it came out as a social experiment on how much and how detailed you could be when controlling a population. The restrictions were more restrictive than in most other places. They were certainly more detailed compared to the common “Stay At Home” orders in…

If that thing is 16' long, then a person would need to be something like 8'or 9' tall to ride the thing. Either that or the handlebars are going to be something like a yard (that’s like close to a meter for non=Mericans) wide.

The pandemic was the justification for for her saying she could make all the “guidelines”, but not the rationale for picking certain things and deeming them illegal to sell. Infant car seats, okay. Infant cribs, not okay. Why? Is it because you can put more than one baby in the crib and that breaks social distancing…

Meh. If you like your Governor arbitrarily telling you what you can and cannot buy at Walmart and other stores, then she’s your Gov.

The fact is that there are just some jobs that no matter how many years you’ve been working there or what your financial needs are, simply aren’t jobs that are worth more than current minimum wage.

Scrap my arse. They are worth a lot of money. You can get hundreds of dollars per tailgate from people looking for replacement tailgates that some bastards stole.

You mean one of those huge adjustable hitches with two side alternate hitch types that is rated to tow double wide mobile homes and take out radiators and shins in a single blow?