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Re: Chronic Car Buyers Anonymous
@oldfarmer50 said:
I’m with you, it’s my car and if I want to eat in it, I will. I did draw the line at smoking though.
There are approved foods and drinks. I wouldn’t allow a big plate of hot wings and dip. But nuggets and fries can only do so much damage if you clean the car out often.
Drinks, pretty lenient on that too. Leather seats and all-weather mats are helpful. With that said, we left Waffle House last week and the youngest had a to-go cup. Somehow the straw poked a hole through the bottom of the styrofoam cup. His lap caught most of the drink, the cup holder got the rest. Sometimes stuff happens …
Re: Edmunds Members - Cars and Conversations
Last spring my daughter asked us to come down to Albany to babysit for our 1.5 year old grandchild for a couple of days. She works from home and her apartment is small so we have to stay in a motel. We needed activities to do, so she directed us to a decrepit mall that had a kid centric aquarium in it where stores used to be. I think it maybe was in Schenectady? BTW, it was a pretty bad aquarium. But we we did walk around what was left of the mall and it could have been a set for an apocalyptic movie set!
sb55
Re: Edmunds Members - Cars and Conversations
We have two large malls locally. One seems to be doing well after repositioning itself as a high-end “fashion” mall. My retiree group has a monthly coffee meetup there and I am always impressed at how busy it is, mostly young trendies. The other, very close to my house, also seems to be doing mostly OK now after a drawn-out renovation. It still has some empty spaces but the handful of times I’ve visited over the last year it seemed busy as well.We also have two large malls where I live. The first was built in 1966 on a road that at the time was all farm land. Well, its presence spurred such growth along that road that most of the farmers retired as millionaires. It had fallen on hard times but after Sears failed they converted it into a hybrid inside/outside mall with various trendy stores having entrances directly from the parking lot. I was at L.L. Bean exchanging a coat the other day and business seemed to be booming.
On the flip side: down the hill from my place is the first shopping center ever built here, dating from 1955. I remember my parents taking me there when I was a kid. It began as the old style mall with storefronts opening onto an open-air walkway under an overhang. Later on it got enclosed, then even later that got removed and it reverted back. As the years went on the quality of retailers declined, but it was handy to me for its grocery store, pharmacy and my dentist. Last year they announced plans to tear it down except for the grocery and pharmacy and to use the land for 4 tall residential towers. They have done the demo and I presume construction will start soon.
The other mall a few miles away was the ultimate mega mall that eclipsed the first one. It was the place to be for trendy shoppers until recently when it became a hang out for teen gangs with the accompanying fights and shootings. That, plus uncontrolled shoplifting has degraded many malls and retail in general here in NY.
I’m impressed that you and your retiree buddies hang out at such upscale locations. The codgers I associate with gather at the local convenience store that has a couple of booths.
Re: Edmunds Members - Cars and Conversations
————————————————@qbrozen said:
Here are the pics of my “audio equipment.”
The record player has a 2nd matching console that holds records and has a 2nd speaker.
The radio is, in fact, a Philco.
The jukebox is nothing special. Plays 45s. I looked it up once before but forget now what year. I want to say ‘68-‘69, but not positive.
Cool stuff Q! I like the jukebox.
Me too and when I first saw it I thought @qbrozen was off his rocker because it looked like an oven.
jmonroe
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Re: Chronic Car Buyers Anonymous
@28firefighter said:
Well. The WRX is no longer new. Driving back from the mountains yesterday I hit a pothole on I-90 that I couldn’t safely avoid. Nicked my front right passenger wheel.Oh well.
Nothing is worse than the first nick / scratch. I curbed the wheel on our first Model Y when it had less than 1,000 miles. My youngest, who loves cars, won’t let me live it down.
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Re: Edmunds Members - Cars and Conversations
Malls? Pshaw.
We have an enclosed “retail resort” by our house.
Nordstrom
Dillard
Apple Store
Cheesecake Factory
Not sure if the Macys is still open.
Michaell
Re: Chronic Car Buyers Anonymous
@kyfdx said:
Also, there is another bunch of tactile buttons on the ceiling, around the sunroof controls. Unfortunately, my head is too close to it to read them while I'm driving. (presbyopia)
I would have that problem, but no fancy word for it in my case. I’m just getting old.
qbrozen
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@mjfloyd1 just a PRND lever like a regular Nissan.Not seeing any PRNDL indicators on the console. I guess they cheaped out like GM did on the 2nd-last Impala and only put them on the instrument cluster.
It does have paddle shifters, though
The number and position of the switches can be criticized I suppose, but with all the toys and gizmos modern cars have, they have to be somewhere. I can only imagine the horror if you could not easily turn your heated and cooled seats on and off. I have no idea what "Auto Rest" is though, and why it takes up so much real estate there.
ab348
Re: Edmunds Members - Cars and Conversations
I'd move quickly on this hot deal, $5000, 50,000 miles.
