Florida State Seminoles

[Jungle Rat]

I can't believe IB bought a truck and didn't give us 12 paragraphs about it. Or did he?

[hedge]

Everybody I know who owns a truck or SUV (and I know plenty) does not own another car, or if they do, it's their last truck or SUV that they just kept to have a spare but gets worse gas mileage than the new one they drive daily...

[innocentbystander]

As I said hedge, I can't speak for North Carolina, Cincinnati, or Kentucky. I am sure you are right but we can both be right.

[hedge]

Most people who can afford a new truck or SUV and then actually buy a truck or SUV are generally not the type of people who worry about paying for gas. They definitely don't shell out $70K for a one and then ride around most of the time in a 20 year old Kia...

[hedge]

"I am sure you are right but we can both be right."

You can't be right, ever...

[innocentbystander]

Sure

[hedge]

A Sunday report from Charles Bethea in The New Yorker suggested that when former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows said the 2020 presidential election would be marred by mail-in ballot fraud, he was telling on himself.

According to that report, Meadows and his wife, Debbie, were left without a North Carolina residence after they sold their Sapphire home in March 2020. That September, according to the magazine, they registered to vote using a mobile home in Scaly Mountain that they didn’t own, where they didn’t live and where Meadows may never have set foot. Then, Meadows voted by mail.

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opi ... e-n1291550

[Jungle Rat]

At one time in my life I owned an Expedition and an F-150. Was married of course then. Loved the Expedition but that was for the kids. I drove the truck. So yeah, many families own 2 cars. The wifes is always the family car. So he drives it on weekends.

[hedge]

Well yeah, plenty of people may own more than one car in their name, but their wife or kids drive it. But most people don't own 2 cars and nobody else besides themselves drive them. I'd say very few people are in that situation...

[Jungle Rat]

Most single people don't own 2 cars. Yes.

[innocentbystander]

Most single people don't own 2 cars. Yes.

Not sure about singles specifically but 24% of all American households own at least THREE cars (maybe more.)

https://policyadvice.net/insurance/insi ... ngle%20car.

About 24% of American households own 3 or more cars or other light vehicles. This includes 3.4% that own more than 5 vehicles. 33.5% own 1 car, 33.1% own 2, while there are also close to 9% of households that don’t own even a single car.

I don't think its a great leap of logic to stipulate that if your household is one of the ones that own a great-big heavy truck (or Suburban) you are probably in that 24% with 3 or more cars.

Myself, my wife, and our daughter, collectively we own eight vehicles. But we run a small business with some of them. That said, if you look at our neighborhood, everyone has a two car garage, there are two cars in it, and there is at least one more car in the driveway.

[Jungle Rat]

Most single people don't own 2 cars. Yes.

[sardis]

A Sunday report from Charles Bethea in The New Yorker suggested that when former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows said the 2020 presidential election would be marred by mail-in ballot fraud, he was telling on himself.

According to that report, Meadows and his wife, Debbie, were left without a North Carolina residence after they sold their Sapphire home in March 2020. That September, according to the magazine, they registered to vote using a mobile home in Scaly Mountain that they didn’t own, where they didn’t live and where Meadows may never have set foot. Then, Meadows voted by mail.

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opi ... e-n1291550

Sapphire? That's 20 minutes from me in the mountains. Selling on March 2020 was the worst time to sell. The prices have doubled since then.

[innocentbystander]

Most single people don't own 2 cars. Yes.

Rat, I believe you are correct. If I had to guess, yes, I agree with that statement. I assume you are correct, but I don't know.

If hedge is correct that I am always wrong, then on this one thing you would be wrong. Because I assume you are correct. That said, when I was 28 and single, I owned two cars. I may have been an outlier.

[sardis]

When I buy my truck, I'm keeping the car. Been realizing that a third vehicle between me and my wife comes in handy because last two times my car was in the shop it took a week or two waiting for a part. And dealers don't give loaners anymore, they've sold them all. And rentals are now $100 a day.

[innocentbystander]

When I buy my truck, I'm keeping the car. Been realizing that a third vehicle between me and my wife comes in handy because last two times my car was in the shop it took a week or two waiting for a part. And dealers don't give loaners anymore, they've sold them all. And rentals are now $100 a day.

Exactly, a lot of households are going to 3 or more cars.

[hedge]

"Not sure about singles specifically but 24% of all American households own at least THREE cars"

You do realize a household means more than one person in the house, right? So yeah, if there's 3 people of driving age in the household, that household probably has 3 cars. One for each person. Just admit you were wrong and let's move on...

[hedge]

"Myself, my wife, and our daughter, collectively we own eight vehicles. But we run a small business with some of them."

I never said anything about commercial vehicles, that's a whole different category...

[hedge]

"That said, when I was 28 and single, I owned two cars. I may have been an outlier."

Oh you were an outlier alright, but it didn't have anything to do with cars...

[hedge]

"Exactly, a lot of households are going to 3 or more cars."

For fuck's sake, sardis is like 80 years old, he doesn't count...