Your daughter went to college in Boston. Did they all go to school there? There’s enough public transportation to get by without a car. I had a car, as did many of my friends during college in the early 1970s. The university was in a small town and was all male until my Junior year. Things were so weird for the girls for the first few years, that you might as well say it was still all male. Anyway, we needed cars for dates.
1966 when men were men. 3 guys to a room with bunk bed and shower down the hall. A lot bigger than the YMCA though for a dollar a night. After freshman year though most kids moved to off-campus apartments instead. Girls not so much.
I thought you were driving truck now though?
So, men are no longer men?
What are we now?
Anyway, did you hear about the cat thief that got crushed?
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That sounds fabulously gay to me (not that there’s anything wrong with that).
I drove a truck for about a year and a half, from 2006 to 2008.
Yeah that was about the first 30 responses, then we got sidelined into social engineering, plumbing, and dorm life. We had to fix our cars though in the parking lot outside.
Give me a break…
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Nope. Middle son went out mid-west for 2 years, then finished up back East. Youngest went local (NH) but lived on campus.
I had a car in college also in the 70’s. But still the vast majority of students didn’t.
I realized that I wouldn’t spent my entire life as an undergraduate. I managed to graduate in three years by attending an institution in my home town in the summertime and transferring the hours to the college I attended during the year. The dormitory room I lived in was pretty Spartan and the restroom was down the hall. It didn’t bother me, as I was only in the room to sleep. The rest of the time I was either in class, in a laboratory, in the library, or in a music practice room. I didn’t have a car, but every other weekend on Saturday I would take a bus to another campus 50 miles away for a horn lesson and return the same day.
When I did my second round of graduate school, I was married and we lived in married student housing. A bus came along every 20 minutes and I could be in the classroom in five minutes. Anything that went wrong in the apartment was repaired by the university. There were students in my program that had been there a year or more before I started the program and were still there after I completed my degree. These students chose to live in more luxurious residences off campus.
Growing up in the country, I had to adjust, but I realized that life on campus as a student wasn’t permanent.
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All my plumbing cutoff valves are now ball valves, and so are my outdoor hose bibs.
BTW, I survived the recent multiday near zero ice storm unscathed. A 100 bulb string of incandescent Christmas mini lights wrapped around the faucets with a plastic bucket over the top. Nothing froze.
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There is such a thing as a freeze free hose faucet valve, got tired of draining the line via a drain valve every fall, 18 below and all was fine. Was done when I replaced galvanized with cpvc. So I was at 1.5 minutes to fill up a 5 gallon bucket, and the sprinkler would only do a 5 foot sweep. Up to a 15 foot sweep and 5 gallons in 35 seconds. Water utility did a test, 14 gpm, and 24 pounds pressure when opened a the meter. Min is 12 gpm and 20 gpm. So barely passed, but everything is good vs 3k for water line replacement. Sure we have a lead service to the curb box, and galvanized from there to the house, led testing done, .18 way below, but got a free fridge filter for water anyway.
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Even though I live in the south we do get below freezing a few times each winter ever sine I found out about the freeze free hose faucet and installed them I never had a frozen one yet.
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Almost all of the US has a few days of freezing weather. In Florida, the dividing line is Alligator Alley (I-75). South of that, and it never freezes. I’ve been near Orlando several times when the farmers sprayed the citrus trees with water to produce ice which would insulate the fruit from freezing. I’ve been in El Paso when it froze, and LA when it was in the 30s.
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I have those on my outside lines. I did have one freeze up though. Went to wash the car in the spring and water in the basement. The plumber had put it in originally. The thing is they have to be installed at a slight angle so that the water drains out. Guess the guy didn’t know that. No problems since except the other one wouldn’t shut off, then replaced that one. The plumber never put shut off valve in for those so I added those ball valve while I was at it. If you have a leaky one and no supply shut off, you have to shut the water off to the whole house until it’s fixed.
Those 1 1/4 ball valves are mainly for shut offs on main lines but they come in different sizes. Most lines in houses though are 3/4 or 1/2". I suspect those 1/4 turn valves for individual sink and water closet lines are ball valves but never looked close at them.
I think…we have exhausted the possibilities for the topic by this point.
Sorry, just trying to clarify things a little. I was washing my car though.
That’s the point. Since the topic was covered (and is still open and available to anybody wishing to comment), the guys are just having some fun and comradery and nobody’s slinging arrows. No offense, (sorry ma’am) but it reminds me a bit of a strict school teacher admonishing students standing in line, “There’ll be no smiling in line!”
As an avid listener of Car Talk, going way back in the early days of the show, this kind of banter is in the true spirit of the show. Click and Clack went way off topic, regularly, and got themselves having so much fun laughing that they couldn’t talk. Then one brother, still laughing, would ask the other what they had been discussing. Listeners like me enjoyed it and it made the show unique and kept me coming back.
By the way, it has never been down to freezing temperatures here, in the 3 years I’ve owned property and it’s common to see utility water lines run above ground at valves, etcetera. Although I have an optional heating element in my air handler, I have never (except to test it when I bought the property) turned on heat in the condo, only air conditioning.
As far as Justice is served is concerned, Florida driving laws ( I’m looking in the latest edition of the 95 page Official Florida Driver License Handbook) list a number of violations that will result in “suspension of driving privilege,” and for the real jerks it requires “termination of driving privileges.” Justice served.
There, I brought us back on topic!
CSA
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My buddy in Dallas put special pipes in his house that expand when they freeze. They came in handy last month. All he had to do was use a space heater to thaw them out.
Cars have plumbing.
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99, But who’s counting.
I won’t deny justice, but that’s not a fun way to go. I’m a little claustrophobic anyway. Told before but was helping my BIL put an engine in so I was under the car and he was operating the engine lift. Engine came off the lift crashing down. Of course the suspension took most of the force so the car just kind of kissed me, but I came out of there pretty fast. I don’t like being under cars.
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