I learned to drive stick in a blue yugo with a missing gas cap.

I learned to drive stick in a blue yugo with a missing gas cap.

Was it stolen by zombies?

Was it stolen by zombies?

No, but the Yugo factory employed zombies, so....

Was it stolen by zombies?

Not sure. The car itself was moved a number of times in order to steal my parking spot.

As in, college guys picked it up and removed it from my spot so they could have a parking spot. I got two tickets that way.

As in, college guys picked it up and removed it from my spot so they could have a parking spot.

My mom told a story about the guys in metalshop disassembling the football coach's VW bug and reassembling it inside the school gym; apparently this took just a few hours after school one night, so everyone came back to class in the morning, and there was a car...inside a room it had no way to get into because the doors were too narrow.

Much hilarity (and detention) apparently ensued. This SOUNDS like a Snopes-ish internet myth, but mom swears she saw the car in the gym...

On my bus route home there's one spot where the bus has to make a fairly sharp turn into a narrow lane. Remarkably often, there will be a car parked - illeglly - right at the corner. One day there was a group of large young men on the bus and the car blocking the turn was small. Yup - they piled off, picked up the car and moved it, got back on the bus (to applause), and the bus continued on its way.

IIRC, the engine in a VW bug is only attached by four nuts, a pin in the throttle linkage, and the battery connection. If you pull the engine, the wheels, and the seats, it should easily be light enough for some football players to lift and turn up on its side. I just can't remember how wide the door would need to be for the body to fit through.

What to do if you're earwormed: [link]

Real Simple Magazine consulted James Kellaris, a University of Cincinnati professor who studies why catchy tunes stick in our heads. James says that to stop the looping, "listen either to complex music, like Mozart, or unfamiliar music that lacks a hook, like New Age."

And if that doesn't work, try singing the song all the way through or simply listen to it in its entirety. This will give your brain a sense of completion and should relax your need to continue repeating the lyrics. As for situations where you can't remember some or all of the lyrics, just rewrite the end to get the song out of your head.

Or you could sing Raspberry Beret.

I never new that Emma Thompson adopted a Rwandan refugee. Here's a story about his graduation from college: [link]

Also my people on Facebook are telling me that Zappos was just bought by Amazon.

Timelies all!

I don't know how to drive stick. Nobody in my family does, so I never learned.