But what an amazing instance of using-his-power-for-good this is.

JPEG stands for Joint Photographics Experts Group, so I assume you pronounce it jay-feg, right? And SCUBA from Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus is skuh-ba with a short U and A?

I’m picturing my cat, who sleeps on my bed all day long, hopping on damp sheets, getting angry, and then puking and/or peeing all over those damp sheets.

Hold on there pad’ner. Everyone knows that the only thing any gub’mint can ever do right is war, police, & execute people. Everything else they either always get wrong or just shouldn’t do... Privatize it all...

This is why I roll my eyes whenever someone twice my age says something along the lines of, “they don’t make ‘em like they used to.” And thank God they don’t. 

A dealership would have been less hassle.

“A dealership would have been less hassle.”

They ARE a car dealership, even if they want you to think they are something new and different because you do most of the process online. They aren’t.

Yep - I have a Chevy Sonic hatchback too. I coach soccer and everything fits just fine. Mine is a 2016 1.8L with 137K on it. I put Michelin Defenders on it and it’s nice and quiet. It has a few cooling system issues at the moment that I need to sort out, but overall, it’s been great.

Good luck to her, hope she finds something reliable and reasonable.

Every few weeks I’ll see what the money in my “new car fund” will buy me. It’s up to about 6k and the market in that range is just abysmal — there’s a guy trying to sell a 2013 Subaru that’s burning a quart of oil every thousand miles for $5500 “firm”. The rest of it’s just 2004-2008 hondas with 200k plus on the clock.

I’m going to say air conditioned seats. I had a rental with them in Northern Minnesota in December and still thought they were the bee’s knees. I could only imagine how good they would feel in swampy summer.

Counterpoint. Had a rental with A/C seats in the summer in the South. Sounded like a good idea. But there was 40k+ of miles of people driving a car with black leather seats in the Deep south.

Western Montana - beautiful. Mountains, Glacier National Park, very cool. Eastern Montana is the Dakotas without the charm...

As someone who (re)learned how to drive stick in Seattle and fully learned how to do hill starts here as well, I agree the hills are not really an issue. If they have to deal with sitting in traffic, though, I completely get it.

“You do not need a heated steering wheel in Seattle.”

I believe it. It doesn’t pay to cook for one. Even if someone is inclined to cook for themselves you’re quickly confronted with the economics of either eating the same leftovers for a few days (which can be a drag on your appetite), because most portions of fresh food in the grocery store are sized to accommodate a…

Even though I am not a black man, the advertisements for the company Bevel got my attention. I have thick, wiry, curly beard hair that tends to get ingrown - especially on my neck. I started shaving with this razor and I’m all good now.

My inner cook would have had to go with Flandango, but still, well done

Badda Bing!