Yesterday, as I was picking Ruby up from school, I ran into a distraught parent who had seen someone leave their two-year-old in the car as they ran in to pick up their kid. “That’s really terrible, isn’t it?” they asked me nervously, and then informed me that they were going to go call the […]
Category Archives: Car
Courteous A-Holes
It’s time for an intervention. Your behavior has to stop. I am talking to you, “drivers who think you are being courteous.” You are not being courteous, you are being giant a-holes, and you probably don’t even know it. Well, I’m here to help. Let me put forth a scenario. Last week I was driving […]
FML 666
Having lived in Vermont for 9 months now (though gone for 4 of them) I decided that it was time to get my VT driver’s license and register my car. And also the car registration was expiring on July 1st. I went online and gathered all of the information I would need because I have […]
Setting Opera Goals
So the other night my wife and I started our semi-annual discussion about goals and what we want for the future. She always has a much better idea of what she wants than I do (she wants to go to grad school, she wants Ruby to take music lessons, etc.), but we both do well […]
One Armed Tire Changing and Other Feats of Insanity
Just so you know, my arm still hurts from falling off the stage. I still can’t lift anything heavy, like my water bottle, and I still don’t have a full range of motion in the shoulder. I’m not trying to whine, I just want you to understand my horror when I was driving down the […]
200,000 Miles
If you are a regular Tenor Dad reader (ie, my mother) then you know that I am slightly obsessed with numbers, and none more so perhaps than the numbers on my odometer. To be fair, I got this particular numerical obsession from my father, but whenever I drive I watch carefully for palindromes (107701), numbers […]