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Detroit, 1:44 PM
Sun Dec 6
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09/08/09
I wonder how many Corvette ZHZs have died already from track days.
I've seen no less than three at one Cali Speedway track event this summer.
09/08/09
[www.corvetteblogger.com]
09/08/09
This was an expensive ordeal.
Tow to nearest dealer: $370
Overnight in hotel: $90
Replacement key: $126
Extra car rental day: $30
09/08/09
@GreenN_Gold: Spending a weekend on the river when the salmon are REALLY jumping... Priceless.
09/08/09
09/08/09
[www.philly.com]
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09/08/09
Save the PMY 'vettes?
09/08/09
There is still Utah mud underneath the '93 Intrepid in which my wife and I took, um, a shortcut from the Natl. parks to AZ.
"Road impassable when raining"
Well, it wasn't raining at that exact moment....
09/08/09
Years ago I worked at the cellphone kiosk inside a video rental store. Hearing the excuses why an adult movie was three weeks overdue was the whole reason working there was tolerable.
"I didn't want my kids to see it, so I had to wait until they weren't in the tv room before I could go in and get it to return it. "
09/08/09
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09/08/09
...and perhaps a new laptop.
09/08/09
p.s.. how much did Europcar pay for this?
09/08/09
Cow dented the fender? Hell, where I come from nobody raises an eyebrow at that. Dang cows.
Horse sitting on the hood. Okay, that's baloney.
09/08/09
09/08/09
Sorry, this comes from a lifetime of parking in condensed, stacked lots. You're expected to know what you're about when you turn the key in the switch.
And yes, I was even then from out-of-town.
I went shopping at the MOA (favorite stores: Caribou Coffee, and the ag toys guy on the top or second-from-top level) with one son, the other didn't want to go. Hand the kid a $20 and tell him to have fun in the amusement park.
First thing he did: ride the all-around coaster for recon so he could see which other activities looked like fun. Smart.
Middle thing he did: won the rock climbing wall and took home the $20 they put on top as a prize. The guy told me later "he went up that wall like a spider monkey. "
09/08/09
Now, was the guy just using a metaphor, or did he actually test his wall out with various beasts of the field in order to know how they'd fare?
"YOUR kid did GREAT! He went up that wall like a Pygmy Mouse Lemur!" Or: "I'm sorry, ma'am, but your boy went up that wall like a Plains Bison."
09/08/09
CAINE: "So... you say the perp is a horse, is he?"
RENTAL CUSTOMER: "Yes - yes sir, that's right... horse came right up here & just sat on the hood."
CAINE: "Did he, now?" (dramatically pulling off sunglasses)
CUSTOMER: "Yep, sure did."
CAINE: You know.......... There are two ways this goes down, and either way, you're dropping the gun."
CUSTOMER: "Wha...? I'm standin' right in front of you - I ain't got no gu..."
CAINE: "Well, well, what have we here? Is this a piece of hair caught in your grille?"
CUSTOMER: "Uhhh.... I dunno."
CAINE: "I think.... it.... may be... well, Mr. Jones, maybe you're NOT detouring us into the land of make-believe... you may be telling the truth, after all."
CUSTOMER: "I am, I am!"
CAINE: "That's good, because you know what they say: 'You lie down with the Devil, you wake up in Hell'."
CUSTOMER: "Hey now, I ain't lyin' down with..."
CAINE: "Alright everybody, be on the lookout for an Eastern European horse with reddish hair, bad teeth, and who may have access to an ape."
CUSTOMER: "Holy crap - you can tell all that from just that one hair?"
CAINE: (replaces sunglasses) "It only takes one."
09/08/09
09/08/09
Driver: Road-head.
09/08/09
09/08/09
Let me guess, it was a white, mid-sized four-door sedan (Impala/Stratus/Taurus-esque).
75% of all traffic in Lost Wages is rental cars driven by drunk tourists in a hurry to give away as much money as possible before their flight leaves.
/living there tweaks your view of the place
09/08/09
I can't imagine living there. It's nuts. Fascinating, but nuts.
09/08/09
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09/08/09
Runs out of office
09/08/09
09/08/09
"You returned it demolished."
09/08/09
*moans loudly*
09/08/09
12/16/08
Anyway, I think cars are much cooler when you own them: you can only rightfully show off what you've earned. Sure buying is a lot more expensive: depreciation, insurance, tax etc. but the whole idea of owning a supercar is to show off that you can afford it all!
12/16/08