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I'll bet there are a ton of 5-year-old beet haters out there reading this and saying "YES!" (Can you tell that my young niece is not fond of beets?)

I tried one of those over-the-back-seat trash bags and it held all of about 2 used kleenex plus a candy wrapper. So I went to a plastic grocery bag. That didn't last much longer. Now I have a full-sized green (black?) trash bag that sits in my car accumulating all the garbage that I generate...

You could watch TV for any given 5 minutes! (ha ha) When I first got my license, I was on my parents' insurance. When I went out on my own I switched to my own policy with the same company. They have always given me great customer service, they are awesome to deal with when I have a claim...

My van has captains chair type seats with armrests. I love to use the armrest, but for some odd reason, I push it up every time I get out of the car. Then, when I get back in, it REALLY annoys me that it's not down.

Have you heard about some states using beet juice to melt ice on their streets? They were saying these towns were running out of salt, and found that beet juice was just as effective. Seems like it would make an awful mess.

My car has a Distance to Empty counter on it that is a real lifesaver, but it jumps around like mad. I'll be driving down the road with it showing 48 miles to empty, and, within the three mile drive to the corner, I'm down to 35 miles left. By the time I get in town (another 4 or 5 miles) I'm...

For my birthday, my boyfriend pinstriped my car for me. It was a total surprise, and I absolutely loved it! I know just how you feel about not wanting to use it. For the longest time I would come home and wash it. After a few months, the novelty wore off, and I stopped obsessing over it...

I have the radio, CD, cassette deck that came with the car. Nothing fancy. No changers or anything. The annoying thing is that when you pop out the CD, the radio starts playing. It would be nice if popping out the CD left silence.

Around here they rarely stop someone for "driving too fast in unfavorable conditions", but if you have an accident that's what they will ticket you for. I guess they don't want to prevent accidents, they just want to make someone pay for them having to help get you out. (Am I too young to be...

Isn't ethanol made from corn? And aren't there fewer farmers now than ever before? So, if there is not as much corn, and more and more of it is being used to make fuel, won't that cause food shortages? It's already making the price of corn go up, and it hardly seems worth it to take away a...

I was 15-1/2 when Dad started taking me to parking lots to practice. He was the model of patience. He wouldn't let me drive on the road till I had my learners permit, but by then I had lots of parking lot experience. (Only EMPTY parking lots!!!)

Can't store much in there over the winter. I have a mouse that moves in during cold weather and shreds anything in the glove box. Tissues, paper, wires - you name it, he shreds it, then bits of it come flying out through the vents when I turn the heater on high. But he'll be gone by spring.

Am I the only one who feels like an idiot when I'm getting my car serviced? I'm standing there at the counter telling him about a "wocka wocka" sound in my rear end, or a "kachunka" when I hit the brake. And don't even get me started on what it sounds like when it's trying to start but won't...

Mine was for talking on my cell phone while driving. It's too old a model to work with a hands-free device. (Nokia Tracfone) The fine was $15. Court fees were $85. Talk about a racket.

For me it was driving on mountain roads in the west. Those things were sheer drops on one side that I was afraid of falling off of, and sheer walls on the other side that I was afraid would drop rocks on me. Not to mention the cars flying at me from the other direction and flying up behind me...

Cars are getting to where they don't even need drivers. They know when to stop, they can accelerate by themselves, they can parallel park. Why not fully automate the cars and roads, then the cars can be little offices, or home entertainment studios, or people could take naps on their way to...

My dad told me this, too. It doesn't sound right, but he showed me how letting some (not a lot) of the air out makes more of your tire touch the road, so you get better traction. He did say that once the roads are clear, I should set them back to their proper pressure.

All the times I was a passenger, I never knew there was an official name for it. (I had to look up "pillion".) At first I thought it was sort of a joke - I was just playing around, goofing off, like being in the backseat of a car. Luckily, I was riding behind an experienced rider who taught...

They got me! I went to a different gas station than usual and started pumping, using the first handle on the left, since I like the cheap gas. When I glanced up at the display I was horrified to see that I was over $11 with just over 3 gallons of gas! I looked down at the handles and...

I have only ever been a passenger on a motorcycle, but I have always worn a helmet. Want to hear something scary? Twenty states and the District of Columbia have motorcycle helmet laws that require all riders to wear a helmet. Twenty-seven states have a motorcycle helmet law that only...