It was on a particularly stormy Friday evening when my car decided to throw a tantrum. All was well until the radio started to fizzle, the headlights dimmed, and I was left stranded on a quiet street. I muttered a few choice words, jiggling wires in a futile attempt to revive my vehicle. It was …
After getting sick of using my parents’ car, and them getting sick of me using their car, I decided to just go ahead and buy my own. I absolutely love owning my own car. I feel a greater sense of responsibility and independence. It’s nice to have something that is purely mine and that I …
Exposure therapy is really intense and isn’t something that I enjoy. I have really bad anxiety and it makes it difficult for me to do things that come really naturally to other people. For example, I struggle with driving on busy roads or on any road where there isn’t a clear spot that I can …
When did everyday objects become so complicated? When I was a lad, you could cobble together a DIY solution for pretty much any problem you could think of, provided it was a practical one. Nowadays, it seems like you need a degree in engineering to fix any given gizmo, which really takes the power out …
Well, I suppose that year went better than last. This time there were actual car mechanics Preston parade-goers could rely on for making sure that all the cars actually WORKED… unlike last time. Well, all the cars that were supposed to be acting as reindeer, that is. So the parade made it to the end …
The internet seems to be in absolutely everything in this day and age. The whole concept totally confused me at first, because I watched people interacting with and even talking to their blinky pocket boxes, saw them typing away on different-shaped blinky boxes, and don’t even get me started on the concept of the light …
The idea was to have a bunch of cars all decked out like reindeer, with a Santa ‘sleigh’ car following on behind them. All very whimsical, but someone didn’t check with their local Ringwood car mechanic; in fact, a few people didn’t. Maybe it was ego, or negligence, or a combination of many things, but …
