"Tom McParland" (tommcparland)
12/12/2013 at 12:30 • Filed to: Oppositelock
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"Tom McParland" (tommcparland)
12/12/2013 at 12:30 • Filed to: Oppositelock | 8
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Leave when you want, enjoy the scenery, run through the gears, listen to the radio or just the engine... maybe even hustle down a back-road or charge the apex of an exit ramp. Motoring...good times, I highly recommend it. :)
HammerheadFistpunch
> Tom McParland
12/12/2013 at 12:49 |
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Now THIS is how you respond to a troll.
quarterlifecrisis
> Tom McParland
12/12/2013 at 12:55 |
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It's winter, which means the truck is sitting outside the office. No hustling of any sort will be happening. Maybe a little praying that its weird, occasional misfire doesn't happen.
bradledy
> Tom McParland
12/12/2013 at 12:57 |
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YES!! and when it's cold my turbo makes MOAR POWER!!!!!!!! I was blasting music and enjoying the sweet sweet sensual feelings from the rod sticking out of my gearbox that lets me feel the insides of my transmission working!!!!!
ddavidn
> Tom McParland
12/12/2013 at 12:58 |
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Yes. Because I cannot take a subway, train or bus to work, I drove. Listened to my engine because I don't have a radio, hustled to get down the on-ramp because a semi was going to block me, and apexed the off-ramp because wannabe racer. It was all very enjoyable.
(But I wouldn't mind the chance to save gas money and also save miles on my precious car until I get a reliable one, so don't tell anyone but I really wish a train could take me to work sometimes!)
RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
> Tom McParland
12/12/2013 at 13:01 |
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Yes, and while it'd have been nice to take the Rover, it's a bit drafty, so this kind of weather makes all the excuses for the Benz I'd need.
Oh, and a straightforward reason not to bike. Brrrr.
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HammerheadFistpunch
> RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
12/12/2013 at 13:05 |
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oh man up, its 13 degrees here and the D90 guy still drove in today without a roof.
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RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
> HammerheadFistpunch
12/12/2013 at 13:09 |
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I really should. I've been putting off the oil gauge line replace/ digging out my title/etc. that I need to do to re-tag it.
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HammerheadFistpunch
> RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
12/12/2013 at 13:11 |
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to be fair, im hating life in the cruiser right now, I didn't get my rust proofing done and its getting attacked fast (well, the exhaust is anyway) and with crappy winter gas and the cold, im getting 10 mpg. Good time. At least im warm though! 2 heaters for the win!
Nibbles
> quarterlifecrisis
12/12/2013 at 13:13 |
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What kind of truck? It isn't a Magnum-equipped Ram or Dakota, is it?
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RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
> HammerheadFistpunch
12/12/2013 at 13:17 |
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I've got a baby Smiths heater like this one, though it has had the core replaced with a bigger one.
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HammerheadFistpunch
> RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
12/12/2013 at 13:18 |
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That's kind of what my secondary heater is, but tucked away under the passenger seat. What a neat option
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quarterlifecrisis
> Nibbles
12/12/2013 at 13:26 |
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Nope. 96 Chevy C1500, 350, 4L60E. Had it for almost a decade...just shy of 220k miles on it.
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Nibbles
> quarterlifecrisis
12/12/2013 at 13:39 |
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Well, dag. I can't really help on that then :(
valsidalv, reminding you that infiniti is an option
> Tom McParland
12/12/2013 at 13:51 |
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I sure did! Primarily because it was going to hit -20* C with windchill today and I wasn't going to bike with flurries either. It's a ridiculously short commute either way... not enough to be enjoyable. But enough to make me realize how many things I have to get fixed on the car. Well that's why I go to work, isn't it? To afford repairs on my G35 -_-
Wacko
> Tom McParland
12/12/2013 at 14:04 |
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I have to take my car every day to work, I live 15 minutes out of town, and no busses where I live. I take care of our 7 offices in our region, and need my car to travel between them. at least one hour drive between offices (100 km)
and since it's winter I get to hoon at every corner cause awd 6 speed manual, and no it's not a subaru
DocWalt
> Tom McParland
12/12/2013 at 14:07 |
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I'm glad the snow is gone, I can have fun on my favorite back roads again :)
Sn210
> Tom McParland
12/12/2013 at 14:15 |
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I did and it only took me 11 minutes! To get to my place of work via public transportation would require driving to the nearby football stadium (past said place of work), book a hotel room at the stadium, request a shuttle ride from the hotel to my place of work, and then let them drive me to work. Still technically not public transportation, but it's the only think that would work.
William Byrd
> Tom McParland
12/12/2013 at 14:33 |
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I did!
I had the seat heater on since it was 32 degrees outside in the DC Metro area, it was quite comfortable. My wife came along since we work near each other, dual zone climate control kept us both at our preferred temperature. Got to work in a reasonable amount of time (less than an hour) and probably spent $3-$4 in gas.
OR, I could have driven down to the commuter bus lot, parked, walked over to the 40 person line, missed the first bus because it was full, waited another 10 minutes for the next bus, gotten on the bus ($3.50), sat in the same traffic I would have sat in if I had driven in, gotten off at the Metro (at least another $3.50), waited for a train, cattle herded myself onto a train when it arrived, Metro'd to the closest station in DC to where I work, gotten off, walked up to the shuttle stop where a bus will come by ever 15 minutes or so, missed that bus, stood in the cold waiting for another shuttle, gotten on shuttle (free), and then shuttled over to work, gotten off, then walked to my building. Door to door, 2 hours and $7.
Sure I could have spent what I spent on my 5 bedroom house on 1-acre for a 1 or 2 bedroom condo in DC, and gotten to work quicker, saving seals from the emissions that came out of my sedan, but I choose to live outside the city where the air and the schools are better.
So take your Metrocard, fold lengthwise a few times (or width-wise is you're into that) and insert it in your ass Mr. (or Mrs.) Trotter.
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