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Last week, CIA director Mike Pompeo said North Korea could only be “months away” from having the ability to hit the…
I drive a lot of cars for work. So much so, that my personal car, a 2004 Honda Civic SiR—or just the Civic Si, if…
It’s my birthday too! Birthday twins. Also, Evel Kenievel, Eminem and Norm MacDonald.
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I suspect the most harrowing thing anyone experiences on a regular basis is watching you attempting to park in New York City. I have that on good authority... Read more
I street parked in Manhattan for three years (in Chelsea). You definitely get good at it real quick, and your threshold for space tolerance goes way down. I never even tapped another car while parking but people definitely tapped mine. First car I had a bumper bully type thing and on the second I had opticoat pro and… Read more
Driving around New York sucks so much. LA has a lot of traffic but at least the roads are wider. Read more
You really have to just stop worrying about scratched / dented bumpers. It’s just a fact of life, and you learn to live with it. Read more
1) New York residents get to be INSANELY good at parallel parking (my personal proudest moment was parallel parking in a spot with a total of four inches to spare, front-and-back, on ICE); and
2) New York residents don’t really care too much about hitting the cars in front of and behind them; it’s accepted that other…
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Elsewhere, in places like Brooklyn Heights and Manhattan, where there’s exponentially more competition for spots, it’s not infrequent for car owners to sit in their cars for the entire time slotted for the street sweeper, which is usually an hour-and-a-half, and just chill, moving their cars briefly when the sweeper… Read more
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