DetroitNut90

I'll take a riced Camaro any day over a riced Civic.

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Yesterday was awful. I walked around D.C. for about 7 hours, and spent only about 2 inside at the Air and Space Museum. Of course, this wasn't for me-I've basically seen all D.C. has to offer, including the crime. My sister and her fiance is up here from Charleston, so all the sight-seeing is for them. And they even complained about the heat. Thank God for air conditioning. Temps from yesterday: heat index: 110-a new record. w/out heat index: 104-almost a new record.

I got an update on the Sonoma's condition today. The good news: the necessary parts have been ordered, and the truck is off of life support. It should be moved into the operating room tommorow or Saturday. We also found out exactly what caused the driveshaft to fall off-a lot of water stuck inside somewhere it shouldn't have been. The bad news: The water was never there before, and Carmax sent out a claims adjuster to look over the truck. He told my dad and the mechanic working on the truck that Carmax was denying our claim for reinbursement because-and get this-it was OUR fault that the driveshaft snapped. The guy told us that the only way that water could have entered where it was pooled was if we took the truck off the road and put it through a river. Well, the closest thing to a river it's been through was a puddle. But apparently this guy knows what we've subjected our truck to better than we do. No one is happy with Carmax right now. But on the bright side, I got a new digital camera today, and got to stroll around the Inner Harbor in Baltimore. I forgot how nice it is up there.

Thanks YJ, looks good.

I like the standard-duty trucks better, but these still look good-and tough to boot.

grandad

Glad to have you here. BTW, I like the MD flag on your plane.

Take your pick, either one's fine with me. And Mobster in one corner & RWD Mafia in the other if that's ok.

I've never had any of the "high-end quality cocoa-crack" that Sixty8 talks about, so Hershey's is plenty good for me. Sour cream & onion potato chips, pizza, subs, nectarines, and cherries are some of my life-long addictions aside from cars. What could be better than good food and hot cars?

No, 'cause I'm guilty of doing the same thing to oak and maple.

As long as no one is a child abductor or a deranged ax-murderer, I wouldn't mind meeting any of y'all.

piercing

I've been in a vindictive mood since the Sonoma's been sick, so I'd say do all of them! Realistically though, I'd probably favor an e-mail flood. And a DOS attack sounds cool, whatever that is.

I'm not entirely sure which seals broke-I just understood that at least one broke and it was serious enough to land it in the service bay at the local Carmax. I imagine that it was the same seal that failed when the driveshaft snapped, but I dunno, car mechanicals have never been my forte.

Friday was the suckiest day of the summer. First off, my alarm clock didn't go off when it was supposed to, meaning that my mom came in very pissed off at me (I work at my parents' office, so that means she's my boss as well as my mom). Second, we ran out of my cereal, which meant that breakfast consisted of a very old, very dry Quaker oatmeal square. Third, it was hot-very hot and humid, and the air conditioner in the office decided to crap out on my side of the building-and only my side. But the worst part of the day was that my truck got sick-very, very sick. My dad usually drives it into work because he gets up before my mom and I do, so he gets his choice of vehicle. And he takes the truck. So as he's on the Beltway, he says that the engine shuts off and then turns back on. Then, he hears a clunk and his speed drops very rapidly. He thinks he has a flat tire, so he presses down on the gas and the clunking gets louder and faster. It's then when he realizes that the driveshaft snapped, and the clunking noise is the shaft smacking the road and the underside of the truck. He calls around the time I woke up and tells me that he needs my mom to call AAA for a tow truck. He only tells me the truck isn't working properly. We end up passing him on the Beltway on the way to work-he didn't want us to stop for him. And that's when I see the driveshaft hanging off of the truck. But this problem can be traced back to another problem we had earlier in the summer. We had gotten home from my grandparents' house when he noticed that oil/fluid was leaking out of the back of the truck. Turned out that a valve seal had come loose, which prompted a trip to Carmax to have it fixed. The technician that serviced it said that it was not something GM did. He said that what had most likely happened was that a rock or something hit it and made it slip off. I didn't know what to make of that, but it wasn't leaking anymore, and we really needed the truck back. So when he got into the office Friday morning, I asked if that was the only thing that had happened to the truck. He said that there was more than that-and I'll give y'all three guesses as to what we found underneath the truck that morning. If you guesses oil/other fluids, you're right. According to the independent garage we took the truck to, the Carmax technician didn't fix the valve seal like he should have, so the seal came loose again, causing the fluid to leak again, which somehow led to the driveshaft falling off. It's been out of commission since then, but on the bright side, we got an '06 Mazda6 as a rental, complete with the auto-manual transmission. Only I can't drive it-I'm not 25 yet. I'm mad with Enterprise right now. Later in the day, my family and I went down to see my grandparents'. I almost got ran off the road by a riced Civic on the way, so that didn't sit very well with me. But something more confusing than anything happened a little while after we got there. We went into Ocean City for some Phillips carry-out. I had to use the rest room, and while I was washing my hands when this guy my age comes out of a stall. We talked for a moment when he told me he likes my a$$ and started hitting on me. Words usually don't fail me, but I couldn't think of what to say. I thought about reciprocating to be polite, but I didn't think that I could fake something like that. So I just said "Do ya really think so?" I got a yeah, I do in reply. I was afraid that this wouldn't end, but his cell phone rang and he excused himself to take the call. I didn't know what to make of this situation-I've really never been hit on before by anyone-guy or girl-so this was new to me. I was a little flattered that someone found my rear attractive, but a little wierded-out that my first experience ended up being in a bathroom. Needless to say, I was very happy to pop a few Advils and go to bed that night. Thanks for listening, y'all.

S- Easy to fall in love with. T- You're loyal to those you love. E-Damn good kisser. P-You are popular with all types of people. H-You have a good personality and looks. E-Damn good kisser. N-You are absolutely beautiful. ------------- D- You have one of the best personalities ever. E-Damn good kisser. T-You're loyal to those you love. R-F'ing sexy O-You are one of the best in bed. I-You have a fine a$$. T-You're loyal to those you love. N-You are absolutely beautiful. U-You really like to chill. T-You're loyal to those you love. Hmm...apparently I am a damn good kisser. Sadly, no one has ever told me that... I'd agree with about maybe 3 of these.

I like them-I like them a lot. Strong, bold (at least in presence), attractive,...you get the idea. I think I like the GMC better-especially the Denali, but it's really, really close. One of them will (hopefully) be my next truck.

Looks nice so far. I really hope this turns out to be a home run for GM-heaven knows they need one in this segment.

$300-plus the satisfaction of knowing that you gave a kid a very special first car, a copy of the iTunes CD, and a couple of 14 oz. pineapple sodas.

The Armada is a bit chunky for my tastes, but I like the front revisions and the interior is very much improved in the styling department.

Happy birthday guys!

Toyota, Honda, large SUVs, and pretty much every other licsensed driver in the DC metropolitan area suck so badly at driving. I've only been driving since the end of May, but I already have plenty of horror stories. Yesterday morning while driving into work with my mom, I was merging onto I-95 south towards the Beltway. I find a gap in the traffic and floor it in the Venture. Then, out of nowhere, this ass in a Ridgeline comes out of the far left lane and blows his horn at me because I was in his way of doing 110 in a 55 zone. And as I'm trying to get into the lane I want (95 splits to form the Beltway a little ways down from that exit), some 90-year old in a Camry swerves into the far left lane going like 35 in a 55, even though everyone does at least 60 through there. Then, on the Beltway, this other ass in a Sequoia comes up behind me. He is so close to the back of the Venture-I think his a/c started sucking in my exhaust gas. So he decides to pass me on the shoulder of the road, then cut back in front of me with about a milimeter of space between his rear and my front. And then, he decides to take it slow-40 in a 55. So I mashed the pedal down, and the tires started to slip, so the AWD came online and I flew forward around the guy. He thought I was racing him, so here he comes, flying up the road after me an passes me again on the shoulder. So this time, I throw all caution to the winds and floor it-that was the first time I went over 75. The look on his face as I flew by him was priceless...

I dunno-what do y'all think?

I've tried a couple of times, and once at a Chinese restaurant in Harrisburg, PA w/my cousins, aunt, and uncle. Our waiters looked at me fumbling with the chopsticks w/these "you are incredibly stupid" looks on their faces. I had a nasty suspicion that they were talking about me in Chinese as they walked away.