That moment when you thought you put it on the valve cover, but it’s actually on the radiator support. When you go to reach for the imaginary 10mm socket, the REAL 10mm socket gets bumped by your elbow, falls into the engine bay and makes a 1 in 1,000,000 bullseye into the most perfect-sized frame hole.

You never wrenched then?

• Places socket over seized bolt.

Even though this is a very funny trope in wrenching, I’ve been very fortunate to have never permanently lost a 10mm socket out of the half dozen I have.

If they are unwilling to do that they could potentially give him a car worth $10,000 and it would also be satisfactory. Perhaps a certain 2016 Mazda CX-5.

And while the dealer is trying to make it right for Fredricks, he’s still out of $10,000 and a car.

Intellectually, I know they're not there to clean my shoes, but that's what I always use them for. They're good shoe buffers at shoe level, whaddya want from me? 

I usually give Jalopnik writers every benefit of the doubt, but I take a number of issues with this article.

This. Also, I’ve never been on a road trip (especially through parts unknown) and thought to myself: “You know what I absolutely need right now? New brake fluid.”

Brake service and tire rotation should have been done before leaving.

Anybody remember these?

Yep. If there’s one thing these giant corporations are good at, it’s grinding, multi-year, heinously-expensive lawsuits over petty bullshit. The judge should have gone a step farther and just bonked their heads together and told them to cut it the fuck out.

He was a General, not an elected Leader.

Here’s a different angle from NY Magazine (it might be behind a paywall so here’s the whole thing):

Is that a Real Jet? All I see is a Mirage.

Do you use a highway to get to the danger zone?

We need a down vote option. I don’t want my page views to misrepresent that I regret wasting my time read this crap. News worthy topics, not-quite there analysis and background, horrible logic structure and seemingly willful ignorance to the context.

Damn. Want that Ranchero. 

I’m betting that it wasn’t something they thought about back then, or even needed to. BTW: the flatness of the panel at the arch does add rigidity and the thinner the material the more it benefits. This is also why you aren’t working in auto engineering and design.