Oh, that's probably what it was. Oh well, Musk is still a douchebag.

When I was a kid in the '70s there were cigarette vending machines everywhere. If you wanted to smoke, you could smoke.

I'm old enough to remember coming home from bars with my clothes reeking, even though I never smoked myself.

I'm a school bus driver and a majority of my colleagues smoke. Some things will never change.

That Dorothy Hamill cut was the shit.

I'm a school bus driver and we have an insane number of kids that get transported less than half a mile, solely because we lack sidewalks and drivers here are batshit crazy.

Also the street is probably a 14-lane highway.

I saw a bumper sticker the other day that said "ELON". I dunno, maybe ELON stands for something else. It was stuck on the back of a Chrysler, ironically enough.

Ya Mama

What gets me about the Mad Max franchise is that every vehicle has brand-new knobby tires. I get that the reason for this is that they use practical effects and they can't have stunt drivers swerving around on bald-ass shit, but it's jarringly out of place. Having refineries in a post-apocalyptic world is unlikely enough, but no fucking way they'd be able to make new tires.

I laminated mine years ago and still used it to get my Real ID. The dude looking it over said "that's fine" and waved me in. I had signed it when I was like 10 or something and the signature was absolutely nothing like what it is today. They were fine with that, too. Being white probably helped a lot.

weird American birth certificate

My mother was born and given up for adoption in a state that seals adoption records for 80 years. We found her birth family because her birth certificate had her birth name crossed out with a single pen line and her adopted name written in above it. We surmised that her birth middle and last names were actually her birth mother's full name and since it was a rare last name we were easily able to find her in the 1930 census. This allowed us to locate her birth mother's still-living sister. All went well, but this was certainly an egregious violation of the state's adoption laws.