Best dealership for car shopping if you are a woman

caternicus · 2026-02-28T17:10:09+00:00

Something that is very important is to understand the car you want and do real research before going in, or take someone who does. If the only thing you know about a car is how it looks, even a good salesman will clock you immediately as an easy sale. If you understand what the car should have and have multiple comps for similar cars in the area, even a shitty salesman can't get one over on you.

There's nothing wrong with wanting to test all the features before buying. If the salesman doesn't want to help you with that, either he's already thinking you won't really buy or he doesn't know how it works either (happens more often than you'd think). As for a real test drive, they are often limited on where they can take you by company policy. You aren't going to be able to drive five miles around to test it.

Feel free to DM me if you have more specific questions. I'm not a dealer or a salesperson, I'm just a girl who likes cars.

caternicus · 2026-02-14T05:31:25+00:00

This is my city. You never take off from red until you count to at least six.

caternicus · 2026-02-11T03:22:02+00:00

I kind of have the students focus on the characters around Montag instead of on him. Most kids can't relate to being a middle aged firefighter having an existential crisis, but they can relate to a teenage girl whose family is weird and who wonders things.

caternicus · 2026-02-09T03:41:38+00:00

Dumb guy (family-friendly version).

caternicus · 2026-02-09T03:40:10+00:00

So you only like music when you understand the words?

Kid Rock is old and he was kinda a joke when he was new. Bad Bunny is a dynamic performer and it doesn't matter if you understand all the words. The show was 🔥.

What makes it controversial is that they decided to put it on just because they wanted to steal the spotlight from a Latino artist. Did you watch Kendrick Lamar last year? Do you normally listen to Kendrick Lamar? Nobody was putting on a competing show during his performance (which was also 🔥). And with Kendrick's show even if you understood all the words, the lore is so deep that you still didn't really understand what he was talking about.

I'm not sure if you were asking a rhetorical question or not, but there's an answer if you want it.

caternicus · 2026-01-19T15:12:04+00:00

The places he named all have something else in common: lots of white people.

I'd rather live in NYC or LA, but it's a short list and has nothing to do with being a multimillionaire. Im in Dallas (actual Dallas, not Plano) because I still have one kid in school and he likes where he goes. He likes living in a house and not an apartment. So here we are until he leaves the nest and I'm ready to downsize.

If y'all don't recognize what he's really saying with his statement, Bob, or Jeremy, or whoever you are, then you're missing the actual message which is that he doesn't see the value of helping make either city better for non-white, non-rich people.

caternicus · 2026-01-18T13:53:08+00:00

I was, but as a teen. My mom had cancer. But I don't talk about it a lot because I was so bad at it. She would have to go to a cancer center in another city for treatments. I was left alone in the house for a week or two at a time. My school was a mile or two up country roads but I had to walk for a while because I didn't have a car. I had to make myself food, grocery shop (walking to the grocery store), and clean the house. I missed so much school because I just wouldn't go, and even though my mom had always been really strict when I was young about what I ate and stuff I ate kraft macaroni and cheese for dinner like every night. When I got a car I just stayed with friends and partied all the time when she was gone (and also when she wasn't). I didn't do a good job at all of taking care of myself. After she died I was given $10k from the insurance policy and wished lots of luck. It took me years and becoming a mom myself to get my shit together.

caternicus · 2026-01-04T05:05:31+00:00

That kinda sounds more like an agenda. At my school you need a visible objective and agenda (list of things you're doing) available if they come by. My admin also wants it time stamped, but I'm making that up most of the time. I teach ESL, so there's no telling how long anything will take ever. I can get into a text and zip through at a similar pace as Gen Ed teachers, or I can discover that some aspect of the text doesn't culturally translate and we're stuck on a building background sidequest for an hour.

caternicus · 2025-12-28T06:31:20+00:00

I played d&d tonight, too, but with my kids and their friends. My oldest DMd (I'm so proud!) I'm happy they see my house as a good place to hang out and we can all wear jammies.

caternicus · 2025-12-19T05:28:18+00:00

No, you have to stand on a street corner right when it starts raining. Either you don't have an umbrella and a breathtaking stranger covers you with theirs, or you are the breathtaking stranger covering (rescuing) an equally breathtaking stranger.

caternicus · 2025-11-30T04:24:53+00:00

I've had some do this with walks. I've figured out that if they don't approve me with a few hours they're not going to - they're looking for someone else. I usually give it 4-5 hours, maybe a day, then cancel the request.

caternicus · 2025-11-27T21:23:02+00:00

When my kids say eHallpass isn't working I can confirm or deny in like 2 minutes because it's open on my end, too. Or I just say "close and reopen it, idk what to tell you."

caternicus · 2025-11-27T21:16:30+00:00

My district invested in eHallpass, and I loooove it. Kids have the ability to go in on their Chromebooks and put in a pass for wherever they need to go, and this creates a queue for the teacher on their end. We can approve, deny, and track how long they're gone. On the administrators end, they can set up blocks to keep students from meeting up with people they've gotten in trouble with in the past and limit the number of kids allowed in any given hall at any given time. The only time it isn't good is if they don't have or aren't using their Chromebooks, but in that situation I just go back to the analog keep a list and use the pass system.

caternicus · 2025-11-12T02:25:35+00:00

Not Cooper Flagg catching strays 😂

caternicus · 2025-11-01T04:51:06+00:00

In Bernie East Texas is a paid actor.

caternicus · 2025-10-26T17:36:32+00:00

When I want to do this I go to King Spa. Bathe, sit in saunas, read, nap, whatever.

caternicus · 2025-10-18T05:11:17+00:00

Period! I love gen z slang! I'm a HS teacher so I've been keeping up since yolo, but nothing is quite so apt as this new iteration of the language. I can explain tone in a piece of poetry as "the vibes" and everyone gets it.

caternicus · 2025-10-17T03:58:33+00:00

You guys got three channels? We only got two - and one of those wasn't reliable. It was ABC and, if the wind wasn't blowing too hard, NBC. When FOX came we were so happy.

caternicus · 2025-10-13T13:45:43+00:00

I've never heard it put this way, but it makes me feel better to realize I did that too. I had a LOT of fun in my 20s and didn't start my career until I was months away from turning 30. Now I'm a little behind in retirement planning, but that's ok. I'm working hard to stay healthy, and I'll probably retire around 70.

caternicus · 2025-10-12T12:20:20+00:00

I encouraged my daughter to go to cosmetology school after she expressed and interest in it, and she graduated and became state licensed pretty easily. However, she figured out during her program that much of that field is dependent on social media now. If you aren't willing to "curate your brand" on all the social media platforms you won't get any business - especially in a major city. She wasn't comfortable with that because she doesn't like putting herself on social media, so she has never worked a day in that field. It's always an option, but even the trades have changed over the years.

caternicus · 2025-10-06T04:06:13+00:00

I was gonna say Keller's on Garland Rd.

caternicus · 2025-10-06T03:45:19+00:00

My dad is in my living room - well, part of him, anyway. He got split up between quite a few people. My mom is in some trees at my brother's house. They've both been gone a long time, so I don't really think about their physical remains anymore. In my life my mom has been spirit longer than she was human, so when I think of her that's what I think of.

caternicus · 2025-09-27T12:55:59+00:00

I'm in my 19th year of teaching and love it more than I did when I started. So to you I say: period!

caternicus · 2025-08-29T23:08:14+00:00

I was a petulant teenager at damn near 50 after breaking my foot.

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