I hear you. I used to live in the big city too, but am now out in the suburbs; not quite rural, but a hell of a lot quieter.
No, my relatives are in Europe, but I made a few trips to the UK when I lived in Europe myself. Did a great tour once where we took the ferry across to Dover, drove up...
Like everyone else has said, glad to hear that the Ranger did its job, protected your family and let them walk away from that.
As a teen, I was a little too confident in my nascent driving ability, took a hairpin curve a little too fast, skidded on black ice and slammed into the guardrail...
OK, so now we know what the basis is for the meal that @DukeCanBuildit will be serving at the next party he's hosting at @AzScorpion place (wherever that happens to be). Time to stock up on German beers, y'all, there's gonna be a second Oktoberfest soon!
@Chris M , I mean, you literally live in a place called "Surprise" so....
Anyways, you two are doing a real good job of selling the area. Thanks, but I've lived in places with all kinds of vipers, so I'm gonna give the scorpions a pass.
That only works if you actually open & read it. Using it as a paperweight for the instructions for all those gadgets you bought just doesn't work the same way.
I feel you, mate. I'm only a few years older than you, and both the wife and I are linguists, which AI is trying real hard to take over.
It's doing a good job at the stupid, simple stuff which has pretty boiler-plate responses, but it's still atrocious when it comes to anything technical or...
Wow, that was entertaining. But I gotta say, all of y'all who were trying to reason with her clearly didn't read her signature line:
"Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience." Mark Twain :sunglasses:
Y'all can't complain that...