I asked my girlfriend over the phone today if it would be okay if I bought myself something for my birthday. She asked me what I wanted to buy. I wanna buy a Ferrari, I said. She laughed and asked me why. Because it’s so pretty, I replied, and I can put you in it. Okay, she giggled, you can buy yourself a Ferrari.
She called me back 10 minutes later with her serious voice when she realized I wasn’t joking.
Ferraris really aren’t as much fun if you have to get permission to buy one. It’s like asking permission to enjoy all other aspects of a mid-life crisis. Just run with the idea and have as much fun as you can.
Rimbo
6123
I clearly got into the wrong line of work.
So did I. Here’s a green Renault to starve of Ferrari envy:
That’s not nearly as ugly as your last car!
Lurb
6126
Oh, that’s like the little brother of the green Renault I recently bought:
I witnessed an ant migration yesterday (Sunday) while visiting my parents for dinner. Thousands of the little buggers were crossing the road in a column about 18" wide, eggs in tow. Probably took about half an hour for all of them to get from the next-door neighbor’s yard to the across-the-street neighbor’s yard. From a distance you couldn’t see individuals, so it looked like the road and grass were undulating.
Beautiful. Made me think of this wonderful Fresh Air episode I listened to a few weeks ago.
-xtien
But it’s so wonderfully French. Which means menial maintenance jobs requires taking half the car apart, half the electrics don’t work and those that do fail within a month. It’s like buying a car and getting a bonus pack of minigames for free!
WarrenM
6130
Made the switch to charcoal grilling and I’m really sorry I didn’t do this years ago. It’s WAY more fun! The gas grill rusted itself into a coma so we had choices … fix it, replace it, or get a cheapo charcoal gill and try it out.
I like the simplicity of it. Hot fire, food on a grate, patience - that’s all you need and the food is so good!
Move over PuzzleQuest, PuzzleRenault is the hot new game in the puzzle market!
nlanza
6133
Please tell me you bought a chimney starter and you’re not using lighter fluid or one of those insane electric starters.
Yep, chimney starter!
My only question is what the proper thing to do with the ashes is. Do you just throw them out? My wife has this idea that you need to wrap them up in foil and a bunch of other stuff.
What? It’s ash. It’s completely “biodegradable” (in fact it can be used as a fertilizer). The more you wrap it up/contain it, the less bio-friendly it becomes. Just dump it in the dumpster.
That was my thought as well. I’ll try to talk sense into her again. :)
Doing some reading on it, since we’re using a brand name and not natural wood charcoal most of that ash is apparently just the “binder” chemical that they use so it’s not all that great to throw on the garden. Should be fine for the garbage though.
It depends on what was turned into ashes. Charcoal, and briquettes in particular, often contain heavy metals, so they go in the garbage bin with the other pollutants for future generations to worry about.
If you want to go all treehugging hippie, coal made from coconut or walnut shells are entirely safe and make a great fertilizer for your garden or flowerpots.
One day i shall make an RTS game. And instead of mining “Tiberium”, you will mine garbage. Think of all the resources conveniently squished together! You just have to deal with the bother of sorting it all out…
Garbage sorting mini-game! Great for co-op mode, one person handles the production and combat while another person specializes in garbage sorting. Just imagine once the game hits the pro circuit we can start talking about who has the best GSAPM (garbage sorting actions per minute).
You could read the thread, you know?!
First of all, it’s not my car. Should the generalization and the silly rote notion that every French car is alike be true, I will spend my time in a loaner while the leasing company gets their car fixed.
Secondly, I know you can read German.
I drive a Kleinwagen…
Yup. Didn’t want to spring for a Megane. Nice car. And if it’s less than two years old it’s also under Renaults new quality assurance.
