I live in a beach community. Joyriders trying to do donuts in the sand have flipped and killed themselves.
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Left a car sitting too long while we were away traveling and the four year old battery quit. Jumped the car and drove it to my local franchise auto repair shop. The service manager must have had a fight with his wife before coming to work because he quoted me the “fuck you price” of $256. I drove to a nearby auto…
Drove x-country in a ‘63 bread truck that looked like this. Had a small hole in an interior panel perfect for hiding our stash. But the cop reached in there first. :-(
Wanna do something for the environment? Don’t replace your dog when it dies.
Our family’s Trumpist has resorted to Whataboutism and then social media silence. That’s as far as we’ve come toward reconciliation. Sad.
Paid $5,000 for a loss leader base Sentra in 1983. It didn’t even have carpet, just plastic flooring. But it averaged 40 mpg. It was as base as you could get in 1983, which made a rear window defroster and a third brake light aftermarket add-ons. Drove it for 150,000 miles but rust issues forced me to sell it.
In 1967 at age 17 I went airborne twice in a blue ‘66 442, the second time with disastrous effect. The first time the owner, my 22 year old construction foreman, just wanted to show how it could haul ass. It did. The second time we lost traction in a driving rain at 70 mph and flew into a swale on the side of the…
Before heading out in cold weather wash your hands in hot water - it makes a significant difference. Try it.
Behold , a $2,000 Land Cruiser my son picked up. Some rust but drivable with all systems funtionaing after replacing some mouse-chewed wiring.
Learned to drive in my parents 40hp ‘63 Bus. We once loaded 23 kids inside for a short drive. With a light load it would reach 65 mph absent a headwind. I tried to pass a Greyhound bus once on the Maine Turnpike but couldn’t get past the wind washing off its front. My small town high school actually allowed me to…
I worked with a guy who was an artillery officer during the Vietnam War. He boasted of being certified to fire a backpack nuke. It required two officers, each with firing codes which had to be combined to enable the weapon. The operation sounded positively hygienic compared to some of the other mayhem-producing…
Paid something like four grand for a new leftover ‘76 Aspen wagon, slant six, three-speed auto, no carpet in the cargo area. Basic. Ran great for ten years and 150K miles. It woulda been all good if I were living in the Atacama Desert, cuz it leaked water into the passenger compartment from Day One. One day I stepped…
Bill & Hillary are the Jim & Tammy Faye of the Democratic Party.
Why does everyone have to preface their anti-dog remarks with something like, “I love dogs but...”. I don’t love dogs. To be clear, if there was a button I could push that would explode every dog in the universe I would press it, twice to be sure. Got it?
White People are Cowards, huh? But racist stereotypes must never be used to describe black people?
A perfect pet-human non-pairing: A young hyperactive German Shepherd with a morbidly obese woman, (with “Let’s Get Weird” on her T-shirt and hat that looks like a waste paper basket), who can’t maintain her hold on the leash. Dogs are evolving; humans devolving.
Tolerance is a two-way street, don’t you think?
Please do your research before posting. Locking the car doors does nothing to stop a hungry bear. They can insert their claws into the door seam and peel the door right off the frame. Why? Because their sense of smell is 1000 times more acute than humans’ and that McDonalds trash you left in your car has attracted…
Hangups are all-too-common by call center service reps in all branches of government and business who are under pressure to answer more calls in less time. When confronted with a call requiring thought or action that might take time and/or effort it’s just so easy to drop the call. Yes, these are bad employees but the…