"Textured Soy Protein" (texturedsoyprotein)
08/07/2018 at 15:04 • Filed to: Interesting cars at work
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"Textured Soy Protein" (texturedsoyprotein)
08/07/2018 at 15:04 • Filed to: Interesting cars at work | 3
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I don’t often leave my office at lunch time, but if I do, it’s often to go to Walmart, because there are no Walmarts near my house, only Target. While Walmart may have a certain stigma about it, I don’t care because it’s cheaper. There are also many car dealers along the way.
I never go to Walmart after work, because both my office and Walmart are on VA Route 7 a.k.a. Leesburg Pike, which turns into a giant parking lot during evening rush hour. I don’t fuck with 7 after work, I take a different way home.
On my way back from Walmart, I passed by this Mercedes dealer with a Viper, Aston, tow generations of Jag XK, and a Tesla S parked right by the entrance. All of which have basically the same shape to their front end.
While it looks like a lovely day, it’s actually hot and humid as balls out, especially in the massive garage at this particular Walmart, which is in a building with a 24 Hour Fitness, some restaurants, and doctor’s offices, among other things. Loading up my car it was roasting. Ugh.
At least I got to laugh at the ridiculousness of this scene unfolding on my way to Walmart.
You may be wondering what’s so funny, but let’s zoom in a little, shall we?
THE !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! IS COMING.
Looks like the folks in the condo building in the background will have different views soon. Oops.
The Ghost of Oppo
> Textured Soy Protein
08/07/2018 at 15:12 |
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When I worked in Tysons I would avoid 7 like the plague. Shout out to Old Courthouse Road
RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
> Textured Soy Protein
08/07/2018 at 15:12 |
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THE SKY IS FALLING -wait, no, we’re pushing something really tall up AT the sky. Kind of the opposite. Fuck the sky, really.
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> The Ghost of Oppo
08/07/2018 at 15:17 |
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There’s another exit from my building up on Greensboro. In the evening I take that thru the Tyson’s II area over to 123 and hop on 495 N from there. Every once in a while I’ll take assorted side streets up to Georgetown Pike and get on the beltway up there, but I learned the hard way that if traffic piles up at any of those intersections, it can make for a shit ton of waiting. Google Maps would tell me I could save 10 mins going that way but I’d end up adding a damn extra half hour. Now I check the traffic overview from my desk before I head down to the garage and if there’s any red lines at those intersections I just take 123 to the beltway. At least traffic on the beltway crawls along at a steady pace, unlike waiting forever at those lights between Tyson’s and Georgetown Pike.
Sovande
> Textured Soy Protein
08/07/2018 at 15:19 |
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It's going to be the t allest building between Philadelphia and Charlotte, NC.
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> Sovande
08/07/2018 at 15:24 |
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Baltimore, DC and Richmond aren’t exactly known for their skyscrapers, right?
LOREM IPSUM
> Textured Soy Protein
08/07/2018 at 15:56 |
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Smart marketing. Makes the uninitiated believe that the owners of each respective model/brand traded them in on whatever brand the dealership happens to sell. Chances are each of them came from auction though.
Worked at a couple of larger dealers back in the day, and though I obviously can’t speak for them all, I never saw a trade end up for sale on the same lot it was traded at, regardless of how nice. They almost always went to auction, and everything on the used lot came from auction... Sometimes they would ship them to one of the other lots owned by the same outfit, but I can’t ever recall one being traded in and then resold on the same lot.
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Sovande
> Textured Soy Protein
08/07/2018 at 16:09 |
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Still an interesting stat. DC obviously has a law that prohibits their construction.
CompactLuxuryFan
> LOREM IPSUM
08/07/2018 at 16:24 |
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Interesting! What’s the point of sending all the cars you’re taking on trade to auction if you’re actually buying used cars at auction anyway, though? You have to at least keep the ones you’d buy at auction, unless you’re bonkers , which is probably true for dealers, or there’s some loophole about being able to count auction sales as “sales” and then you can double dip?
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LOREM IPSUM
> CompactLuxuryFan
08/07/2018 at 16:37 |
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I’m honestly not completely certain of the rationale behind it. It could be more profitable somehow, liability concerns, or maybe they don’t want to risk the previous owners returning with the spare key they never turned in and driving off with it.
I w orked at a Chev/Mazda dealer and a Jeep /Nisaan dealer, ( the latter of which was a huge chain that had a lot for just every manufacturer) and both did the same.
DaveD
> Textured Soy Protein
08/07/2018 at 20:16 |
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Try the Mercedes dealership in Chantilly; just off rte 50. Much easier to get to and if you don’t fancy a Merc, you can go next door to Audi; across the street to Honda, or visit Mazda, Toyota, Infiniti Jaguar, Land Rover or even Kia, less than a mile away.
People at work always tell me how awful NoVA traffic is. I love the traffic here! Went back home to London last week; took 2hrs 45 mins to drive 26 miles. It's all relative, I guess....
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> DaveD
08/07/2018 at 21:44 |
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Since I live in Rockville and commute to Tyson’s, I have very, very few reasons to do anything in Chantilly.
ohioplayer1177
> Sovande
08/07/2018 at 23:05 |
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I think the swampy ground would not hold such a load and the bedrock if any is probably hundreds of feet down making them cost prohibited and possibly dangerous. The danger part could be why they have a law against. Side note, I love pre owned luxury cars. You get 95% of the good stuff and only pay 20% of the cost. Time they are off lease or traded in they lost 80% of the value the remaining 20% bleeds away much slower and often slower then other cars. The first 80% drops like a rock.
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Lester
> Textured Soy Protein
08/08/2018 at 01:19 |
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What was the point of this story again?
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Sovande
> ohioplayer1177
08/08/2018 at 06:02 |
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“ The original law limited buildings to the height of the Capitol, but was amended in 1910 to the width of the adjacent street plus 20 feet, so a building facing a 90-foot-wide street could be only 110 feet tall. The basic intent was the same: No skyscrapers .”
The basic result of no tall buildings has been a lower than possible tax base, higher than necessary rent for both offices and residents, and it has contributed to urban sprawl.
The bedrock isn’t deep enough to keep people from building and making money.
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> Lester
08/08/2018 at 09:14 |
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Here’s the point:
Chan - Mid-engine with cabin fever
> Textured Soy Protein
08/08/2018 at 11:37 |
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I want the Viper.
Also, t his happened to us in Hong Kong:
2003
And then 2016...
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> Chan - Mid-engine with cabin fever
08/08/2018 at 12:09 |
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The number of skyscrapers in DC will catch up to 2003 Hong Kong in...2103. And they'll all be outside the city since there's a law preventing building higher than the Washington monument.
Future ND Owner
> Textured Soy Protein
08/08/2018 at 13:52 |
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Fun Fact . The law actually limits building heights to 130 feet or the width of the right-of-way of the street on which a building fronts, whichever is shorter.
We can thank T he Cairo apartment building for the law.
William Byrd
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08/08/2018 at 14:30 |
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> William Byrd
08/08/2018 at 15:00 |
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I look forward to a time in the hopefully not-too-distant future when I can say I used to work in Tyson’s. My job is a good one but the l ocation is blah.
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08/08/2018 at 15:04 |
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> William Byrd
08/08/2018 at 15:48 |
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I’d settle for something in Montgomery County or NW DC. I just need to remind myself to never hesitate to go do an errand at lunch time if I need to.
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08/08/2018 at 16:09 |
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08/08/2018 at 18:40 |
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Typo. 2013 vs 2016, although it didn’t look too different in 2003.
Hong Kong has some pent-up demand because the old downtown airport only closed in 1998, removing the height restrictions on most of the city.