• Cort@lemmy.world
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      Shut up, shut up! Don’t give the Americans any ideas, or we’ll end up with a freeway through each aisle of the grocery store.

      That would solve the issue of massive parking lots though 🤔

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      Yeah but it was freaking cool when you saw the wall-door they open at one of the entrances to get it in there, and see them moving it in —signed 10 y/o me.

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    When they introduced the Geo I got to drive one into a mall spot. Was fun to do but they gave us strict instructions to drive slowly. Anyway, R.I.P. Geo.

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      Sold those back in the day. Metros were a total (heh) nightmare. Parents were always coming in to look at one for their kid, until they saw the insurance rates. A swift kick to the bumper would total one. Because the bumper was filled with foam. No lie.

      Took a man on a ride and he rocked it down the interstate at 70mph. We got back to the lot, popped the hood, and the little 3-cylinder (again, no lie) lawnmower engine was hopping on it’s engine mounts and venting an alarming amount of vapor.

      I so wanted a Storm, but they would be creaking and falling apart at 30K miles. Roommate had one that was only a few years old, paint mostly gone, clear coat long gone, and it rattled like it was full of washers and ball bearings.

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    Oh, I’ve done that before!

    I may have been 13 beers deep and it was the local liqour store, not mall, but I’ve done that before!