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If I need it now, I'll go to any major auto parts store. They're all decent imo, so whatever's closest, but if you put a gun to my head and told me to pick I'd probably go O'Reilly's. If I can wait for shipping and I need a few things at once, I'll do rockauto, and for anything harder to find I do eBay, maybe Amazon but they suck so I avoid them if I can. And occasionally I'll go to a third party site if it's the only place I can find something.

I don't have firsthand experience but I've been meaning to swing by the local parts yard to see if I can find hatch mat and other bits and pieces.

weke? It's the Internet, you can say weke

We're you referencing this by chance?

Today in the US was for me. The polling place was only a 5 minute walk away, but the wait was about 45 minutes. Tbf though, I naturally managed to pick the slowest moving line by a good margin; people who were initially standing behind me switched to other lines midway through and were able to get their ballot before me. I would guess most people were there for 30 minutes.

For every previous election I voted in-person, the wait was like 10 minutes tops, but those were in smaller towns.

Can confirm, I used to daily an 07 focus and it went through door handles like tires

Yeah I've gotten pretty good with swipe typing

IT ALL GOES BACK TO THE SUN

In past, many word impossible, but AI make talk verbose. Shun AI. Talk short.

When I do it I mean to leave a couple sentences.... aaand suddenly I've got a 500 word essay. Oops

I actually like my winter boots to be slightly loose too. I get cold toes easily, but if there's a little extra room in my boots I find that every step moves air around inside the boot so my toebox doesn't get isolated.

I've never heard that coffee metaphor but it's perfect. I'm going to start borrowing that one

There is no such thing as good winter drivers and bad winter drivers. There is only those with snow tires and those without.

I don't agree with that. Good tools are useless in the hands of the ignorant. Somebody can have the best winter tires ever engineered, but if they stop and turn on ice like they would do on perfect pavement on the dryest summer days, then they're fucked and they're a cocky jackass. A good driver will know the limits of their tires, whatever they are.

True, it follows that having this knowledge will generally convince good drivers to get better tires, but it's not like buying fancy new rubber will turn you into Ken Block (rip).

TL;DR: Get the winter tires, they're great and worth it. But PLEASE for the love of god take the time to learn how to fucking drive on snow and ice or you'll be stuck in the medium with the rest of them, because even with the best winter tires it's NOT the same physics