Something Read and to Remember a Time Not So Long Ago

[roberth]

The calm before the storm.

https://americandigest.org/of-a-fire-in-a-field/

I was working the California backroads with the sailor in his Porsche and ?Slow? was not on the menu. We had come down out of a few days in the high Sierras around Mount Shasta and, hitting the flatlands, the Sailor decided to clean some carbon out of the Porsche?s engine by finding a long, long, long flat paved ranch road well beyond the range of the California Highway Patrol. There he proceeded to put the speedometer well above the century mark and just leave it there. In a fine-tuned Porsche this means that on the two-lane blacktop ?the lines in the road just look like dots.? It was a year ago. It was February 2020 and it was the last time the people and the nation were happy. Nobody knew it at the time. Nobody at all.

[Grant H.]

Reminds me of this:




TL;DW: Cannon ball run in 25:39 in August 2020, due to reduced traffic...


ETA: Yes, I know the op-ed is looking at more than driving fast, but the except you posted made me think of this video.

[roberth]

I enjoyed the reduced traffic around here, but I sold my M3 (coined "the entitlement car" by Kazoo) a couple years ago so I didn't get to maximize my enjoyment.


The article made me think about my summer plans last year and how things were looking up.

[MrPrena]

You had M3?
Which one?

[BPTactical]

You had M3?
Which one?

The one between M2 and M4.


DUH!

[crashdown]

Was just telling my a wife a few minutes ago that this time last year I was coming off a record January sales month, and reminding her how we were getting ready for a big Vegas trip, penthouse suite, sushi, and exotic sports car reserved as rental............ this year not so much.

[Great-Kazoo]

You had M3?
Which one?

The one entitled white guys own

[Martinjmpr]

The one entitled white guys own

Are there any M3's that AREN'T owned by entitled white guys?

[MrPrena]

The one between M2 and M4.


DUH!

The one entitled white guys own

Are there any M3's that AREN'T owned by entitled white guys?

If I knew @roberth owned M3, I would have told him about CO/Rockymountain M-car meet.

[JohnnyDrama]

The calm before the storm.

https://americandigest.org/of-a-fire-in-a-field/

Thanks for the post roberth. Brought back memories/feelings. I'm sure I'm not the only only one who benefited from the economic swing that was underway a year ago. I wouldn't go as far as say all the people in the country were happy. There were a few who were down right miserable and hell bent on taking the rest on us down to their level.