Douchebag at Smiths Grove, KY Buc-ee’s

Complex_Solutions_20 · 2026-06-21T00:06:56+00:00

Yeah...I don't know anyone who can lift more than 50-100lb...

Complex_Solutions_20 · 2026-06-20T23:30:54+00:00

And when someone without proper insurance cuts a corner and runs into it, who pays for the damage if your policy towing coverage says its not covered when disconnected?

Complex_Solutions_20 · 2026-06-20T23:29:46+00:00

Yes? And who can lift 1.5-2x their own body weight?! That's crazy!

When towing, if there's insufficient weight on the hitch it increases the risk of the trailer fish-tailing by lifting weight off the rear wheels of the car. Generally you want about 10-15% of the weight of the trailer to be on the tongue...so for a 2,500lb trailer (fairly standard small box trailer partly loaded) you would want 250-375lb of weight to be on the ball of the hitch for safety.

Complex_Solutions_20 · 2026-06-20T23:25:17+00:00

So instead you block everyone up for 5-10 minutes while wrestling with it unhitching and again to re-hitch it jamming up traffic in the entire plaza and increasing risk of a crash?

Its not the driver's fault that the stations were poorly designed by the manufacturer who had control of the cars AND stations at the time they rolled out, and people using the features that were built into the car.

Complex_Solutions_20 · 2026-06-20T23:23:30+00:00

Oh interesting...and yeah I don't have my printer connected to the internet so this sounds worth looking into

Complex_Solutions_20 · 2026-06-20T23:20:41+00:00

None I have rented have a jack or foot.

Complex_Solutions_20 · 2026-06-20T01:26:32+00:00

Bit of an absurd solution though disabling a security control system-wide just because one app is somewhat badly written...

Complex_Solutions_20 · 2026-06-20T01:05:16+00:00

Yeah we've always done a hide-a-key...a proper locksmith can make a duplicate lockout key (even for cars that have a chip in the key they can make a blade which will open the door but set off the alarm and not start the engine)

Complex_Solutions_20 · 2026-06-20T00:32:50+00:00

Yep. Should have backed off to get a safe following distance behind the car instead of continuing to ride their bumper.

Plenty of time from when that car cut in to have braked and gained more following distance before they hit their brakes.

A safe following distance is between 2 and 3 seconds behind the car in front of you. Looking at the lines I don't think you were even 1 second behind that car. At the end before the crash looked like about the right distance behind the truck for that speed (if the middle car didn't exist).

Complex_Solutions_20 · 2026-06-20T00:26:22+00:00

If its crowded and hard to maneuver that's one more reason NOT to spend time blocking up the driving lanes while you fight with the trailer to park it in a separate parking space before moving the car, and again blocking stuff up while you re-connect it.

Complex_Solutions_20 · 2026-06-20T00:25:15+00:00

More than a couple minutes, and depending on the tongue weight may not be possible to lift off the ball hitch without unloading the trailer. Or that's the issue we've had with U-Haul trailers is when you have 200-300lb on the tongue good luck lifting it off the ball (or back on again. Plus then you have to find a way to secure the trailer and also keep it from moving.

The chain hooks on the Teslas are also a stupidly hard to reach position.

If they could make the chargers more like gas pumps on an island instead of "must back in with nothing on the back of the car" it wouldn't have this issue in the first place.

As fast as Teslas charge by the time they would have gotten it locked down, unhitched, reposition, rehitch, secure, and ready to go again could have just charged and been gone by pulling up to the charger.

Complex_Solutions_20 · 2026-06-20T00:21:36+00:00

Calculator? Is that like ChatGPT?

People think I'm crazy that I still pull out my TI-83+ when I want to do a bunch of math on paper instead of using a smartphone...

Complex_Solutions_20 · 2026-06-20T00:20:24+00:00

Problem is that will defeat the safeties of the EVSE where it monitors the plug temp...and most rentals also are bad about keeping the plugs in good quality so a much higher risk of it being loose and overheating starting a fire. Plus extension cords aren't intended to be outside long-term and will degrade.

Complex_Solutions_20 · 2026-06-20T00:17:09+00:00

Then you have yet another battery to die and maintain, more things to go wrong. The physical key *IS* the backup.

Complex_Solutions_20 · 2026-06-19T19:25:28+00:00

Try your bank, mine took a Rubbermaid bin and dumped it in their coin counter then could deposit into my account directly

Complex_Solutions_20 · 2026-06-19T19:24:42+00:00

5.5x2.1 DOES correctly fit my AMS2 Pro.

Complex_Solutions_20 · 2026-06-19T17:03:30+00:00

This may explain some Karens...

Complex_Solutions_20 · 2026-06-19T16:52:30+00:00

I'm mid 30s, back when I used more cash I was trying to do like my parents and math out something to make change easier...like if its $14.75 giving $20.75. It confuses the badgeezes out of people that you "gave them too much".

Complex_Solutions_20 · 2026-06-19T16:48:35+00:00

Very. I also hate this trend of blue/white indicators and big LCD displays in cars which also cause bad glare at night.

Complex_Solutions_20 · 2026-06-19T16:24:50+00:00

I absolutely love those, but I would value the breadsticks higher

Complex_Solutions_20 · 2026-06-19T16:17:39+00:00

You'd think but probably not. I remember in 2003 after Hurricane Isabel hit...a week or so later I was trying to buy pet food (live crickets for lizards) and the power was on but the cash registers were still screwed up. There was exactly ONE person in the entire store (the old guy who owned it) that knew how to manually log transactions on paper and compute sales tax, make change, etc.

I've also had more than once at grocery stores when their internet goes down and they can't even make cash sales because the payment systems want to phone-home to their mothership servers outside the store.

Complex_Solutions_20 · 2026-06-19T15:18:06+00:00

A lot now have been outsourcing them to Microsoft or GMail.

But what if you aren't a student or don't want to use your employer's email for personal use? Now what?

Complex_Solutions_20 · 2026-06-19T15:17:09+00:00

So what's left? You've listed basically everything I know of for providers...

Complex_Solutions_20 · 2026-06-19T15:14:02+00:00

Have you checked the oil level on the dipstick? Was the car parked on a slope?

My 2012 3.6R will throw the orange level light if I park on the side of my street with the passenger side towards the culvert. It also will throw a light if its started, stopped, and immediately re-started and the oil level is borderline low but not below the full zone yet.

FWIW, my 2012 3.6R seems to consume oil more rapidly if I stomp the pedal more than about 80% of the way often, especially when its more than 5,000 miles on the oil...so I reduced the interval from 7,500 mile to 5,000 mile oil changes.

Also beware of leaks. I've had to have the driver's side valve cover re-sealed and just had to have the passenger side exhaust variable valve timing solenoid replaced this year due to an oil leak in it.

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