7. Biting Hard Into Your Steering Wheel: Why It Feels So Damn Good

lol I might have a slightly better story. I was driving to work on the MoPac Expressway in Austin one morning during a work "crunch time" at maybe 5:00am. I was over my "mod your car" stage by then and had a stock 2004 TL, which I was driving briskly on a nearly empty road. I had the cruise control set at um... well…

It's easier to beg forgiveness than get permission...

I'll ask Chrysler if that's cool. If they say yes, I'll try and do it. Sure.

You should keep a running blog of how many people "challenge" (see what I did there?) you on the road. A few years back when I bought a Cobra, which wasn't the fastest thing out by any stretch of the imagination, I couldn't go anywhere without someone "revving" me on the Capital of Texas Highway (where my office was)…

I think I'm averaging about 18 MPG right now?

You sound like you've driven one! You're right, they spin crazy easily. That was a little scary at first. I learned quickly that you have to treat this thing with care.

In Texas there must be weekly drag strip nights everywhere. Take it, yeah?

I never looked that far into it.....hold on.

Got news for you - it's never going to be legal to get stoned in a moving vehicle, whether you're just the passenger or not.

And the incredible part is that you answered me in 17th century English.

If thoust lookest closely, with one regard, perchance one may find the subject of thy query direct upon the prow of craft. Yea, at the tip of the what in these tymes hast been denoted, the quoth nose cone unquoth.

Here are two of my top 5

You literally took the EXACT thing I was going to say out of my brain and put it in your own comment. Down to the "ramming speed".

People wearing blue jeans with exposed rivets who lean against your clear coat should be shoved out of airplanes and then the parachute a few seconds later.

Psshhh. I jerk with both hands. #JesusTakeTheWheel

I know they meant something different but this would have been a more subtle way to get the same message across.

That's why I always let my passenger jerk for me. #BothHandsOnTheWheel