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  1. DneprDave

    DneprDave Well-Known Member
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    #2 DneprDave, Dec 20, 2015
    Wow, five years without a car!

    I bought my first car at age 17 and haven't been without at least one.

    I now have six cars and a motorcycle.
     
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    #4 minintrigue, Dec 20, 2015
    Excellent. Welcome to the sickness.
     
  3. Metalman

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    #6 Metalman, Dec 21, 2015
     
  4. mrntd

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    #7 mrntd, Dec 21, 2015
    Joy ride means the same thing here in the midwest. So it must be an east coast thing.:wink:

    Welcome Aboard!:Thumbsup:
     
  5. Promius

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    #8 Promius, Dec 21, 2015
    I lived in Columbus for 10 years!! 3 in Hilliard ;)

    I should've know what the term Joy Ride meant but I kinda forgot. NYC has corrupted me.

    BTW...its Soda not Pop (This was my biggest problem when I moved to Ohio) :biggrin5:
     
  6. Promius

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    #3 Promius, Dec 20, 2015
    Well I lived/worked in NYC. No need for cars here. But I moved out of the city so its become a little hard to live without one. Public transport can only help so much.
     
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    #5 Angib, Dec 21, 2015
    "Two nations divided by a common language"*

    In British English, a joy ride is when one or more youths, probably below the legal driving age here of 17, steal a car and drive it around for fun. Top points are scored if they can bait a police car into chasing them.

    But that's not what you're talking about, is it?

    *Apparently George Bernard Shaw never wrote this, though he is always credited for it. However Oscar Wilde did write: "We really have everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language"
     
  8. Metalman

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    #9 Metalman, Dec 21, 2015
    Hello and welcome....
     
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    #10 beken, Dec 21, 2015
    It's pop here in Canada. So Zipcars is the new name for Joy riding ?
     
  10. Promius

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    #11 Promius, Dec 21, 2015
    I rented a 2015 MINI Countryman from ZipCar this summer. It smelled like really really bad pot. It happens more frequently than I'd like. even the 2015 MCS in the picture in my post was hit by pot smokers. I'm all ok if you want to smoke pot, I hope it becomes legal, but please do not smoke in the ZipCars!! Specially the sexy MINIs!!!

    So Yea. I'm sure people rent ZipCars to do stupid things.