Cars

Cars and Taxes

There’s a man in a black suit outside. He’s been standing there all day, occasionally peeking through the windows. He doesn’t flinch when I make eye contact with him. Doesn’t seem bothered by the loud music I’m playing. He knows I’m home, and yet he doesn’t knock on the door. It’s thirty-five degrees and yet …

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Auto Trifecta

Do firsts always come in threes? I recently experienced my first ever run-in between my car a stationary object. The lamp post got off just fine, and the car didn’t fare that badly either, although a chunk of paint got scraped off the back bumper. I was kind of horrified because I figured it would …

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Never Drive-In

It’s too late for me, because I went to one last night and it was a horrible experience, but take it from me that they aren’t worth the effort. I think I was inspired by a movie that I watched in my own home and thus rather enjoyed, Peddle Without a Clause, that movie about …

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The Fixer-Uppers

In those first few days, we tried to plan how we would survive, and we came to the conclusion that the automotive industry was our best bet. Fortunately, we found ourselves in Bentleigh. Auto electrical services were more prominent here than anywhere else in Melbourne, and so we set about integrating ourselves into this business. …

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Off-Road On The Mind

All cars can be off-road, if you have the right attitude. Attitude is basically everything. That’s what I learned from ‘Initial D’, that show about a mechanic whose name is David Davidson, and he gets picked on all the time for his initials, which are both ‘D’. He takes out all his aggression in dangerous …

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