My girlfriend has absolutely no problem driving while high/drunk. When I say high I mean on weed. I know a lot of people drive while high and think they're fine and maybe they're right, but I try to tell her not to do it and she always laughs at me and tells me I'm being stupid, etc. Well, about a week ago she was using my car after a long night of drinking and smoking and she apparently backed into something. She says it was a lamppost in a parking lot but the damage seems much too wide for that. She didn't even bother to tell me about it until the next day when I discovered it myself. It seems to be driveable but it looks terrible and I want to get it checked out. One of the backup lights doesn't work which is illegal to drive that way I think. I asked her for money to get the car looked at but she expects me to pay for it myself because it's my car.
First of all, she makes much more money than I do and my allowance isn't enough for a situation like this. Second, she's the one that damaged the car. I literally don't have the money to pay for it out of my own pocket. I could tell the insurance someone hit me or something but I shouldn't have to honestly. She's probably spent twice the repair amount on fancy shoes and stuff like that in the last month. It's a really frustrating situation. What do you think I should do? I've tried talking to her but she won't budge.
HEE-HAWnked his horn.
The monks graciously accept him, feed him dinner, even fix his car. As the man tries to fall asleep, he hears a strange sound.
The next morning, he asks the monks what the sound was, but they say, “We can’t tell you. You’re not a monk.”
The man is disappointed but thanks them anyway and goes about his merry way.
Some years later, the same man breaks down in front of the same monastery.
The monks accept him, feed him, even fix his car. That night, he hears the same strange noise that he had heard years earlier.
The next morning, he asks what it is, but the monks reply, “We can’t tell you. You’re not a monk.”
The man says, “All right, all right. I’m dying to know. If the only way I can find out what that sound was is to become a monk, how do I become a monk?”
The monks reply, “You must travel the earth and tell us how many blades of grass there are and the exact number of sand pebbles. When you find these numbers, you will become a monk.”
The man sets about his task. Forty-five years later, he returns and knocks on the door of the monastery. He says, “I have traveled the earth and have found what you have asked for. There are 145,236,284,232 blades of grass and 231,281,219,999,129,382 sand pebbles on the earth.”
The monks reply, “Congratulations. You are now a monk. We shall now show you the way to the sound.”
The monks lead the man to a wooden door, where the head monk says, “The sound is right behind that door.”
The man reaches for the knob, but the door is locked. He says, “Real funny. May I have the key?”
The monks give him the key, and he opens the door.
Behind the wooden door is another door made of stone.
The man demands the key to the stone door.
The monks give him the key, and he opens it, only to find a door made of ruby.
He demands another key from the monks, who provide it.
Behind that door is another door, this one made of sapphire.
So it went until the man had gone through doors of emerald, silver, topaz, and amethyst.
Finally, the monks say, “This is the last key to the last door.”
The man is relieved to no end.
He unlocks the door, turns the knob, and behind that door he is amazed to find the source of that strange sound.
But I can’t tell you what it is because you’re not a monk
They were the Pirates of the car I be in.
Context:
They literally do line up outside of Dieng’s home, hoping to gain an audience.
While much of the work that Dieng does is coordinated through Matter and the McCabe family’s foundation, he still pours a significant portion of his own financial resources into the efforts. He is in the third season of a four-year, $63 million contract and has pledged to match donations up to $250,000 each of the last four years. None of that includes the times he will get a knock on his door when he is home for the summer, or gets chased down while he is driving through town.
“If I’m in the car, if I’m at home, every day. They’re always asking me,” Dieng said. “I always have money with me. Always. They’re my people. If you need one dollar and God gave you 10, the nine is for others. You’ve got to help other people.”
Dieng recalled last summer when a woman recognized his car driving through town and ran to flag him down. With tears in her eyes, she thanked him for the work he had done on the local hospital to bring much-needed medical equipment to treat the sick, including 300,000 bags of IV fluid this summer alone.
“When she left I really started crying because it makes me feel so good that I helped that lady and I didn’t even know her,” Dieng said. “I’ve never seen her. I give all the credit to the team I have back home. They are the ones that just go see what people need and they send in the orders for what they need. I do a lot here, but the team back home do a great job also. They are working well back there.”
https://theathletic.com/1357853/2019/11/08/gorgui-dieng-charity-work-senegal-nba-cares-community-award/
Hi everyone. I currently work in IT, and my hobby/passion outside of work is cars...and of course, modifying them. I haven't had an issue with this before, as my car literally sits in a parking lot while I'm inside an office working. Its lowered on coilovers, has an exhaust, wheels, and some other little bits. However, I was talking to a coworker a few days ago, and we were talking about cars (hes not an enthusiast, was just asking a general question about cars). He then asks me, "don't you think your car comes off as unprofessional being lowered and loud?" I responded with "No, I don't really think so...its just something I do outside of work." That got me thinking, does anyone here ever have an issue with driving a modified car and "professionalism"?
That is all...
Edit: whilst also vandalising the lawn on private property in an act ‘against the destruction of nature’
I am absolutely speechless.
Just putting it out there. Make of it what you will.
https://www.thezebra.com/insurance-news/5576/tracking-tech-good-and-bad/
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/27/automobiles/wheels/car-data-tracking.html
https://money.cnn.com/2017/02/07/technology/car-data-value/index.html
Edit: More info, a little older but still relevant and gives some more idea about the particulars.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2013/03/24/car-spying-edr-data-privacy/1991751/
My 19yr old was driving my 2016 BMW 428i with her friend in passenger seat and my 15yr old daughter in the back seat behind the passenger. It was raining and she slipped off the road and hit a light pole sideways on the passenger side. Passenger airbag deployed and kept both her friend and my 15 yr old daughter from serious injury. My daughter who was driving was not so lucky. None of the sensors on the front of the vehicle or on driver side touched anything. The vehicle is totaled because of the severe damage on passenger side. Shouldn’t the driver side airbag have deployed as well? There is no recall on the car. She was back in town for Christmas and we have been in ICU since Sunday 14th. I believe if her airbags had deployed, she would not be in this situation. We can’t wait for her to regain consciousness and start her recovery. Is there any manufacturer liability? We live in Tennessee. Thanks for any advice you can give.
Edit: Thank you so much for all the advice and kind words. Merry Christmas everyone.
