Rippling Hurst: Hope your path to citizenship runs smoothly. Sounds like you really want to be here, and we like people like that.
Harvard@Cal: Tom Sullivan’s been a Sacramento institution for so long that it’s really strange to hear people from out of area talking about listening to him. He’s only been national for a few months now.
We drive a Ford Freestyle, the unholy cross between a station wagon and a Ford Explorer. It’s pretty much our ideal car for several reasons:
1) It seats six adults. Really, I’ve sat in the back seat and I’m 5’9″.
2) It lives up to its five star crash rating, something I discovered when we got rear-ended during the aforementioned back seat jaunt. The truck weighed half again what we did and I got nary a bruise. (We did tear out the twerp’s oil pan, by the evidence- he ran, he was caught, he was DUI #3, he went to jail.)
3) Between 23 and 25 miles to the gallon. Seriously.
4) It’s comfortable… I can drive for multiple hours without a break. And the ergonomics are pretty good- something I can’t say about any Chevy I’ve ever driven.
I’m vaguely libertarian-conservative, and Evil Rob is contrarian-liberal. I think, however, we both fall pretty firmly on the practical side.
