The Amazing Inflating Car!

[BlaqueKatt]

P.S. – The vehicle in question was a Jeep Grand Cherokee, last I checked, MSRP on those was $43,000.

P. P. S. – The nicely-equipped Ford F450 Super Duty Turbodiesel that towed it is worth $65,000 as a bare cab/frame, custom bed and hydraulic accessories added to it to make it an acutal tow truck made it's final price tag $75,000. Your point being?

and a combine used for harvesting hay, corn, other farm growy things can run over $300,000.00 and are only used a couple times a year.....

[Argabarga]

And how much was the Saturn V rocket that sent men to the moon worth? Each one being useable only once?

There's a story, probably apocryphal, that one of the Apollo astronauts jokingly sent NASA an employee travel voucher asking for per-mile reimbursment for travel, even at what had to be pennies per mile at the time, it would've been several thousand dollars.

In return, someone at NASA jokingly sent him the bill for the rocket

[DGoddessChardonnay]

Apple pie sucks. Key Lime all the way.

All this talk of pies has me craving an old fashioned Lemon Meringue.

[BookstoreEscapee]

Cherry pies, por favor.


pi r squared, you know.

[dalesys]

pi r squared, you know.

No no no. Pi r round, cake r lie, cornbread r square.

[TonyDonuts]

We towed a car from our lot last fall.

A brand new Audi. It had been left sitting over the weekend, and we had no idea who it belonged to, so out it goes.

Buddy came in two days later, wondering where his car was.

He was astounded, just astounded that a towing company would tow away a "nice car."

I told him I didn't care how "nice" the car is, if you abandon it somewhere you shouldn't be too surprised if it's not there when you finally decide to go get it.

The discussion continued in this vein for awhile, with him just not understanding how we could be allowed to tow a "nice car" like his Audi.

I gave him the number to the tow company, and told him to take it up with them, since they now had his car.

He left muttering, still, about how "they shouldn't be allowed to tow nice cars."

[Argabarga]

Ah yes, those guys are fun. It's always an interresting sociology experiment when you encounter someone who conceedes that yes, there are laws and rules and such, but, only the PEASANTRY has to follow them.... right?

I also got a kick out of the guy who cautioned us that his 5 year old BMW was "old" and would probably break if we were too rough with it, so be careful...

I laughed on the inside while towing his 5 year old car to the dealer with my 10 year old tow truck, and later, when driving my 23 year old Camaro home from work....

[protege]

The discussion continued in this vein for awhile, with him just not understanding how we could be allowed to tow a "nice car" like his Audi.

Aren't Audis usually just tarted-up VWs? Aside, from the quattro setup, that is

Seriously though if he parked his car in certain local neighborhoods, he'd be *lucky* to get it back at all. They'd have that thing stripped and on the ground as soon as he walked away

[Hemily]

We towed a car from our lot last fall.

A brand new Audi. It had been left sitting over the weekend, and we had no idea who it belonged to, so out it goes.

Buddy came in two days later, wondering where his car was.

He was astounded, just astounded that a towing company would tow away a "nice car."

I told him I didn't care how "nice" the car is, if you abandon it somewhere you shouldn't be too surprised if it's not there when you finally decide to go get it.

The discussion continued in this vein for awhile, with him just not understanding how we could be allowed to tow a "nice car" like his Audi.

I gave him the number to the tow company, and told him to take it up with them, since they now had his car.

He left muttering, still, about how "they shouldn't be allowed to tow nice cars."

Here in Norway, we have a name for Audi owners, it's Audiot.
This sounds like it applies to this guy, who's probably like the average Audi driver, buying a Quattro and thinking he's gods gift to driving, then promptly crashing into a tree, because he thinks Quattro means the car can't skid at all, even on ice.

[/rant]

[Ironclad Alibi]

Also, I wonder if sonny boy's penis shrunk proportionally each time he boosted the car's worth?

Uh, if he started with (and I'm being generous here ) 1 inch...and increased the car's worth 3 times, plus the 2 amounts from his mother, wouldn't that mean he'd have a 4-inch *crater* instead?

His penis shrunk so much, and so fast, that he became a she.

[Comechatcha]

His penis shrunk so much, and so fast, that he became a she.

Really expensive sex change?

[Juggler]

Aren't Audis usually just tarted-up VWs?

Pretty much, Same with Lexi and Toyotas.