What's on your mind today?

[Asmodean]

...So The Asmo's been shipped home at the cost of one appendix and one dignity point. That's before the financials of it all, but not too terrible.

No good drugs to show for it, as misfortune would have it. And holes. Holes in His Divine Magnificense. What if He leaks now?! The Asmo wanders off to fill The Asmo with something and see if He is still a suitable fluids container. 

[No one]

Earlier, while out and about, i was fortunate enough to witness some lady perform a 97 point turn to park her minivan. It was something.

Who gives these hoomans licenses?

[Tank]

...So The Asmo's been shipped home at the cost of one appendix and one dignity point. That's before the financials of it all, but not too terrible.

No good drugs to show for it, as misfortune would have it. And holes. Holes in His Divine Magnificense. What if He leaks now?! The Asmo wanders off to fill The Asmo with something and see if He is still a suitable fluids container. 

Good to hear there were no serious side effects!

[Anne D.]

Earlier, while out and about, i was fortunate enough to witness some lady perform a 97 point turn to park her minivan. It was something.

Who gives these hoomans licenses?

Entirely possible it was me, no one. Apologies. Although you must have mistaken my hatchback for a minivan.

[No one]

I thought you were more of a 66.6 point turn person.

[Ecurb Noselrub]

My granddaughter cannot back up to save her life, so 97 point turns are a way of life for her.

[No one]

Kids these days, am I right? You have a camera, sometimes it's a 360 view.

[Asmodean]

The Asmo doesn't even have a thing that beeps at Him when He reverses. He's still mildly ashamed every time a turn takes more than four points.

...But then, He also declares failure if the car is not equidistant from the borders of the parking spot and generally has a touch of OCD about parking.

[Tank]

The Asmo doesn't even have a thing that beeps at Him when He reverses. He's still mildly ashamed every time a turn takes more than four points.

...But then, He also declares failure if the car is not equidistant from the borders of the parking spot and generally has a touch of OCD about parking.

Necessity, being a rep in London, made me very good at parking. I once went to a friends place and had to park in an ultra tight spot. When we went into his flat (apartment) he told me they had an underground car park. He came with me to mu car to let me into the car park. When we got to my car his reaction was, 'Fuck, you've been blocked in!' Hehehehee

[Asmodean]

Yeah, I got that a couple of times. I don't "Paris-park" if I can avoid it, but can manage far less vehicular distancing than ye-average-person-from-round-here.

Actually, I tend to park from the principle of "don't be annoying to other drivers - unless they've parked like shit. Then, if you parking well means they cannot get in - so be it."

The wonders of having an aging car that can take a ding or two to the door lists.

[Tank]

Well there is a good adage. Always park next to a car more expensive than yours.
 

[Dark Lightning]

Living in California, I used to drive old beat cars so that I didn't have to worry about dents or scratches, after having some that were nicely fixed up and painted getting damaged. I bought my first new car in '04, a brand new '05 Toyota Corolla. It replaced a '68 Buick hot rod and paid for itself with the difference in fuel mileage, plus it had air conditioning. The last day I drove the Buick it was 105º F in the shade, and I had no shade, on the ride home. I had had enough of sitting in traffic in that heat.

[billy rubin]

Well, I'm single again. Probably just as well. I had outlived my usefulness for her. And her dog hated me.

shit

sorry for that

[billy rubin]

on backing up, had to back up my 30 000 pound 33-foot long truck 100 feet down an alley in wheeling west virginia the other day.

wheeling is always tight, but this was silly. less tha a foot of clearances thw whole way and i had to squeeze through a gap between a fence and a power pole with less than one inch of clearance on either side.

i always have to do stuff in narrow places, but that one was silly.

[Asmodean]

If there is one thing I have massive respect for when it comes to lorrying, it's the drivers' ability to back a semi through a corner, around a parked car and seamlessly up to a loading dock using nothing but mirrors. Mad skills.