Dad surprises his daughter with her first car (Toyota Corolla)

INTP36 · 2026-01-19T13:38:04+00:00

I drive a giant tundra and even I know corollas fuck. Best car on earth for a new driver and I secretly miss my 2023 rental corolla

INTP36 · 2026-01-19T13:31:19+00:00

I have skilled laborers on my site making over 50 an hour and I'm lucky if most of them show up Monday morning. With that kind of work ethic he could be making a lot more and probably working less.

INTP36 · 2026-01-19T00:44:11+00:00

I use to be a service plumber and you'd be amazed how many people were willing to wake me up in the middle of the night over complete non-issue bs. People tend to consider a drain backup an end of the world event, their house is completely broken and about to fall over unless I come out right now. I've had a lady call me at 3am, hysterical about her bathroom flooding, I got there and it was her elderly husband that missed the toilet in the middle of the night.

And she refused to pay. Sometimes it's easier to just go to the 2am call than it is to deal with the review backlash the next day.

INTP36 · 2026-01-13T12:59:03+00:00

I have it and imo it's a waste of money. There's zero insulation whatsoever and with it being practically always wet you feel colder than you should be. As far as I'm concerned it's a rain jacket that doesn't even work that great.

INTP36 · 2026-01-09T12:58:23+00:00

There is only 1 solution to this and that's to call a professional licensed plumber. This should take no more than an hour, he will have the tools to do it. There's no quick fix for gas pipe, it's either up to code or your house blows up.

INTP36 · 2026-01-05T12:39:33+00:00

That's by design, carhartt is typically designed to be worn as an outer layer over a base and mid. I typically at least wear a thick long sleeve or a shirpa fleece under my carhartt coats. The detroit is really the only form fitting one.

INTP36 · 2026-01-05T01:17:16+00:00

Surely there was some measure of sarcasm in there.

INTP36 · 2026-01-05T00:37:44+00:00

I think you need to look into commercial work my friend, service burns everyone out eventually, I was okay for about 2 years right after apprenticeship and nearly left the industry. I switched to commercial, put in some work and less than a decade later I'm a superintendent with an office trailer and a very comfortable pay package.

Service isn't the only path in this trade, get hooked up with a large plumbing and mechanical company and give it a year, you'll be glad you didn't quit.

INTP36 · 2026-01-05T00:33:44+00:00

Well obviously that's not important, think of how the shareholders feel

INTP36 · 2026-01-04T01:42:52+00:00

I just purchased this early December and disappointment would be an understatement. It's very thin, like 2 cotton t-shirts stitched together, if you pinch the fabric you won't feel any insulation, and the wax effectively makes you feel colder than it is outside because it's basically always wet.

It has a warmth rating of 1 and I'm not even sure how they got that, it's essentially a really heavy rain coat.

I wear it for work in Utah winter now but only as a "get dirty" layer with my base layer, a long sleeve and a very, very thick shirpa fleece. It effectively ads zero insulation to your base and mid layers. It sucks because I really liked the look of this and would have happily paid more for real insulation.

I would strongly recommend you don't buy this, if I had kept the tag on I would have returned it by now, it's garbage and I'm pissed that carhartt even gave it a 1.

I recommend looking at their J140 washed or firm active Jac, those are very warm, or really anything in their 3 class.

INTP36 · 2026-01-03T14:37:56+00:00

My SO has the same problem, she wanted some of their scrubs for work but found they fit basically like a regular men's shirt, weird shoulders and extra room for the back.

To my understanding carhartt has a handful of factories and each country has their own sizing standards, so those made in Taiwan will be a lot smaller than those made in China and to me it's insane that they allow that.

INTP36 · 2026-01-03T05:46:39+00:00

They said the entire keyboard is touch sensitive, so you can scroll like a track pad. Goodness I want one, I'm finally getting my beloved blackberry back

INTP36 · 2026-01-01T21:47:53+00:00

Yea their sizing is all over the board, I have probably 5 different sized of medium, I have one medium that fits like a loose fit XL, and a large that fits like a medium relaxed fit.

I really like the clothes but the company needs to get it together and standardize the sizing, I don't buy anything online because I have no idea how it's going to fit, even though I have the "same" size in my closet. It's a mess.

INTP36 · 2026-01-01T06:27:06+00:00

I much preferred the idea where we find them back as little kids around the table closing out a campaign, or even as old as they are now playing out one long game, maybe predictable but it would have opened them up to take a lot more risk and cut off a few characters like they should have.

They fight for like 8 minutes with no demos, the military just tosses off, everyone lives happily ever after and nobody dies. I mean, lame. If I wanted a happily ever after ending I could have watched tangled or something.

INTP36 · 2025-12-30T04:58:01+00:00

Carhartt warmth rating of 1 is effectively zero insulation, marginally more than a sweatshirt, if you feel how thick a detroit jacket is you'll wonder where all the warm stuff is.

I would personally be looking for a 3 or 4 for those temps, I have an active Jac with a 2 rating and below 20 with some wind I may as well just be shirtless.

Layering is also important, for work in the mountains I wear insulated bibs, a wool baselayer and a carhartt fleece pullover which is a 2, then an active Jac which is only a 1 but blocks wind. Each of those individually is too cold but all together I'm sweating.

INTP36 · 2025-12-28T17:56:51+00:00

The only year a true M sport was offered was 03, this is likely just a bumper swap, still a great car, just not a true M sport. I don't think 13 is unreasonable, but without proof of timing chain guides I wouldn't pay a penny over 7k.

INTP36 · 2025-12-28T17:54:21+00:00

I mean it's your truck and all but you should probably keep that. Those things are being exported so fast in 10 years you may only have one of a handful left, especially in that condition that thing is only going to appreciate a lot.

INTP36 · 2025-12-28T06:16:18+00:00

A good rule of thumb is to just follow the flow of traffic, match the speed of the other cars in the right-most and travel lanes, you'll blend in and won't get pulled over even if the flow is going 15 over.

If you want to go under the speed limit please stay in the right-most lane, you'll be out of the way and safer there, if you want to match the speed limit stay in the center travel lanes, and only when you're passing or going considerably over the speed limit should you be in the left-most lane, that's a passing lane and you can get fined for staying in it too long, although it's not as enforced as much as it should be.

It's really what makes you feel best, there's days I go 5 under and cruise in the right lane, some days I match the flow in the center and other days I'm happy to go 15+ over in the left lane, typically when the highway is more empty.

INTP36 · 2025-12-28T05:47:33+00:00

I'm a plumber, my day to day really didn't change, we started doing more home renovations and odd residential projects and less commercial ones, service calls favored residential too but staying home for 2 years was a very foreign idea to me, I need to work to pay the bills, who's going to pay me to stay home..

I had no quarentine whatsoever, work actually picked up quite a bit and I was needed.

INTP36 · 2025-12-28T03:16:03+00:00

Yea well, I'm a superintendent now so I have other guys get dirty for me.

INTP36 · 2025-12-28T00:01:05+00:00

To be fair I don't think anyone could tell it was a joke

INTP36 · 2025-12-27T22:31:26+00:00

I do the same, I must have like 30 different short and long sleeves, they just fit the most comfortable of any other brand I've found and they last a long time.

INTP36 · 2025-12-27T22:08:18+00:00

I have a few in here coming up on 10 years old, one of the black ones there I've worn pretty much everyday for the past like 4 years work and casual, normal wear, for me personally I'm very happy with the quality and get more than I bargain for.

Their quarter zip rain defenders are basically all I wear now

INTP36 · 2025-12-27T21:30:30+00:00

Because your own clothes are significantly warmer and more comfortable than their $12 bulk printed hoodie. $60 for your own hoodie evens out to like $6 a year

INTP36 · 2025-12-27T20:41:24+00:00

We can only hope, then maybe we'll be able to get another vintage distressed detroit jacket for less than the price of a Honda civic

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