I love my wife and all, but Jesus Hercules Christ...

[skaredshtles]

<snip> I wonder if I should send this my wife way?

Depends on your goals...

[TahoeJ]

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Love this.

Me: Who's run into the back of a car before?

Her: ....

Me: Have I ever run into the back of another car?

Her: .... no.

Me: Have you run into the back of another car.

Her: ........ yes.

Me: Okay then, I've got this.

[dan_pdx]

Love this.

Me: Who's run into the back of a car before?

Her: ....

Me: Have I ever run into the back of another car?

Her: .... no.

Me: Have you run into the back of another car.

Her: ........ yes.

Me: Okay then, I've got this.

Seems like a roundabout way to tell your wife you decided to be celibate for 6 months

[riser4]

My wife thought it was funny. But then she said that I need to stop freaking out when she comes to a complete stop after the line and in the middle of the crosswalk. As if that's the same thing...

[MontuckyFried]

Love this.

Me: Who's run into the back of a car before?

Her: ....

Me: Have I ever run into the back of another car?

Her: .... no.

Me: Have you run into the back of another car.

Her: ........ yes.

Me: Okay then, I've got this.

That's logic, though. Just does... Not... Compute with them.

Same with how automatic climate control works in cars. Fun fact, Cadillac introduced the system in 1964. Thus, this HVAC wizardry has literally been around for 60 freaking years. 6 decades of it being around and they REFUSE to understand that you can just set it and forget it. Nope. Put that sucker on full blast, temp on LO. Then complain about it blowing so hard but being too hot when shutting it off. Since we've been married, ALL of my vehicles have had this, from my Cadillacs to our current Mercedes. Dual-zone in fact! Even the lowly Chevy I had. The Mercedes works exceptionally well. I've explained it a million times. Doesn't matter. LMAO.

Another fun fact: HVAC has one of THE highest gender disparities amongst all industries. It's 99% male, 1% female. And I'm guessing that 1% is doing admin/clerical/sales duties. Now we know why!

[MagnificentUnicorn]

Like the heater in the car, it’s not going to warm up quicker if you blast the fan and turn the thermostat all the way up. The fact that the car heater works by using coolant from the engine that needs to warm up is inconceivable to women


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[Meconium]

But it can cool an engine down

[Meadow Skipper]

But it can cool an engine down

Heh. That reminds be of driving shitty old marginal vehicles through the desert back in the day during summer with the heat on all the way. No A/C, windows down, beer guzzled.

[dan_pdx]

Heh. That reminds be of driving shitty old marginal vehicles through the desert back in the day during summer with the heat on all the way. No A/C, windows down, beer guzzled.

BTDT. Flip on the heater and watch the engine temp going down. '90s Jeep Cherokees were maybe not built for extended desert temperatures.

[Core Shot]

Not a wife bitch but maybe it’s the car thread.

If you never drove a shitbox car that was overheating in summer with the heat maxed and the fan on high and the windows down you don’t know pain. A rolling sweat lodge.
#bring back triangle vent windows

[Danno]

BTDT.

x2

[dan_pdx]

Not a wife bitch but maybe it’s the car thread.

If you never drove a shitbox car that was overheating in summer with the heat maxed and the fan on high and the windows down you don’t know pain. A rolling sweat lodge.
#bring back triangle vent windows

Yeah, the only good thing I can say about it is that with the windows open, even with the heat on, it's not much hotter than outside. Not much consolation in the summer in the southwest.

[Name Redacted]

Reminds me of my youth. I drove a POS Nissan Sentra around the US one summer when I was 19. We went from CO>GA>MI>OR>CA>CO with no insurance, hole in the muffler, a bad cv join, shitty brakes, expired plates, and NO AC. I was in construction traffic in triple digits a few times and had to run the heater full blast to cool her down or pull over and wait which the construction guys loved. It was pretty miserable.

[zion zig zag]

Not a wife bitch but maybe it’s the car thread.

If you never drove a shitbox car that was overheating in summer with the heat maxed and the fan on high and the windows down you don’t know pain. A rolling sweat lodge.
#bring back triangle vent windows

Funny, cause my wife and I were just talking about this the other day. And planning your route based on stoplights because your shitbox car would stall if you stopped.

[Foggy_Goggles]

Or just generally the idea that your car might not make it. Traveling with tools in the truck to fix the truck.

[Name Redacted]

Had more than one car that I had to carry a box of oil around in the trunk. Couldn't park in my friend's driveways because it would leak all over.

[m2711c]

Not just tools, but All the tools. Because inevitably whatever tool you did not have in your possession was the tool that you needed to do that job. Therefore, you must always have all of your tools with you at all times.


still carry a hefty kit in the ol’ tracker to this day.




fact.

[Meadow Skipper]

Or just generally the idea that your car might not make it. Traveling with tools in the truck to fix the truck.

Mandatory with my ‘67 VW van. I carried a scissors jack and enough tools to pull the engine, though once you got it out a screwdriver, a 13 mm wrench and a 10 mm socket were often enough…but not all the time.

Doing a little on-the-road repair, bitd.

[Danno]

Mandatory with my ‘67 VW van. I carried a scissors jack and enough tools to pull the engine, though once you got it out a screwdriver, a 13 mm wrench and a 10 mm socket were often enough…but not all the time.

Doing a little on-the-road repair, bitd.

he, I still remember traveling with a friend in his microbus 30 years ago and as we came to a stop sign there was a sound and then the bus wouldn't move. "Hang on a sec", he says, as he grabs a couple of tools and crawls under the bus. 5 minutes later, we're driving again.

[plugboots]

Seems like a roundabout way to tell your wife you decided to be celibate for 6 months

I can’t let this pass without acknowledging.

I had many old beater cars, including a ‘68 Valiant that had this window:

All my friends cars had these too. We called it turning on the air conditioning. Also near the ground near where the clutch was, there was a black box and it had a little handle, and you could open that thing up to let air in to the floor. I shit you not. In the spring, when it finally got warm out, you’d open it up and leaves would just blow through the car.
One time my buddies and I were driving to Wisconsin to get drunk. We weren’t yet, but got a ticket for speeding. We get the car back up to speed after the pull over, and we “turned on the air conditioning” and it blew the ticket right out the window.
We never found it.

[old goat]

Drove from Pinedale WY to Detroit in 2nd gear in a Cutlass with auto transmission because it wouldn't shift up any higher. Hitch hiked back from Dubois WY in a VW van where the driver had a rope to hold the shifter in 4th gear.
Drove back from Pinkham Notch NH at 25MPH in my dead friends bug because the brakes were completely gone. Fortunately there was a hole in the floor in front of the driver's seat. I probably could have stopped the car with my foot if I had to but I just drove very cautiously and never had to.
Hicthed back from NH with a guy who showed me a machete when I got in. But I had an ice ax so I guess we were even. We had to stop at a rest stop and wait for MN for them to start pumping gas (thanks Carter).
Hitched back from NH with a young women who kept popping pills. Turns out she had just gotten out of a mental hospital and hadn't slept in 36 hours. She stopped for coffee with the engine running, ran in and told me not to steal the car. I didn't.

It occurs to me that I was much more likely to die on the road during my climbing trips than on the mountain.

[BCMtnHound]

Also near the ground near where the clutch was, there was a black box and it had a little handle, and you could open that thing up to let air in to the floor. I shit you not. In the spring, when it finally got warm out, you’d open it up and leaves would just blow through the car.

That floor vent in pick-ups was large enough to fit a six pack. With cooler weather outside and the box cracked a bit, and those wobbly pops were ready to drink in 10km.

[Foggy_Goggles]

I wonder about when no fucks given long distance hitching kinda went outta style? We didn't really do it in the early 90s but my friends older siblings talked about it. When I lived on Notch Road I'd always hitch to work at Smugs because there would be drinking at work and then drinking at the Brewski. When I lived in Fraser we would always hitch to The Slope because that was a big night out.

[old goat]

I hitched through Cheyenne in the early 70s during Frontier Days with hair down to the middle of my back. (Nowadays the cowboys are the ones with the long hair.) Got a ride out of town with a guy who looked like a mean and nasty version of the Marlboro man but turned out to be very friendly. Too friendly. Eventually hitched back to take the bus with an ex bull rider who'd been kicked in the head a few times too many, in a 50's something or other with the door tied shut. "Hi, I'm Spud. What's yore name?" And stuck out a huge paw to shake.

I don't know when hitchhiking stopped being a thing for college kids and hippies but a friend of mine was raped and beaten and left for dead with permanent brain damage in 71. I don't think it was ever safe, especially for women. But we were mostly lucky.

[xyz]

98 degrees so I suggest we use the grill for dinner so we don’t heat the house up. “Sure” she says.

Pull out the grill go upstairs for a bit. Come down the oven is on 400 degrees to cook baked potatoes and a giant pot of boiling water for broccoli.

She had to cook the sides for the grilled pork loin of course, what was I thinking.









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Ugh. Yeah. I have this awesome little convection toaster oven. Will fit and cook her mini pizzas perfectly. But she will always choose the oven instead. Pre heating it forever. Forgetting it’s on sometimes. Heating up the place while the AC is doing overtime.

I’ve offered to cook her pizza for her. Show her how fast and awesome the toaster oven is. But she will have absolutely non of it. I swear she will take a swing at me to keep her pizza in the oven.