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Old 05-22-2023, 08:54 PM   #1346 (permalink)
Isaac Zachary
High Altitude Hybrid
 
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Avalon - '13 Toyota Avalon HV
90 day: 40.45 mpg (US)

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Originally Posted by redpoint5 View Post
I can handle the parents of kids easily, by definition. They are already soft, and weak. I dismissed a parent of a child easily today and they put up zero resistance. Of course, I played dumb, to expose their dumbness and immediately surrender, but parents are total cowards. I don't mean that in a derogatory way either, it's just how things work.
You must live in a totally different part of the country as I. Here if you don't go along with what the parent want's next thing you know you're either being sued or have a gun to your head from said parent. Or at least a lot of yelling. Whenever a kid here gets a low grade the parents come in ranting and raving at the teacher as if it were the teacher's fault.

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Originally Posted by Xist View Post
I have known people who called vans, trucks, and SUVs "cars" even though they were clearly vans, trucks, and SUVs.

We regularly mention that manufacturers call their products the wrong things thinking they will sell better.

I wish they would stop.
My sedan that I drive, the Avalon, has been replaced by the Crown that some are calling an SUV. It might be an SUVified sedan. But the Crown still is pretty sedan-like. But still, very confusing.

My brother and wife call their gianormous 8-passenger SUV "the car."
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