Good thing you’d never driven a Yaris, then: the gas cap is anchored by a thin plastic strip. A couple of times I’ve had gas station attendants try to put it on top of the car; so far, none has actually managed to do it but given enough time I expect I’ll run into one strong enough to break the strip without specially trying to.
They do a real good imitation of the :o smiley when they realize why the stupid thing isn’t going anywhere.
There’s no such thing as a momento.
In English, anyway. Maybe it means something in Spanish?
You nearly drove me stark mad. Not even kidding. I started googling, Google wasn’t giving me the “do you mean” prompt, I couldn’t find anything to help me ‘know’ what ‘momento’ was, I just knew somehow that it was a word.
Worst part is, I was shaky on the meaning…Some kind of nostalgic souvenir felt right, but I just couldn’t be sure. And the internet wasn’t helping, and it’s 3:30 in the morning and nothing was making sense and I nearly felt my sanity slipping…slipping…
But then, just a second more of googling and frantically clicking links helped me realize that I meant ‘memento’ and sanity slowly returned, like an old friend. I would have gone to my grave certain that the word was ‘momento’ though, had not I seen this post. These kinds of threads never fail to blow my mind. (The pineapple plant thing blew my mind years ago, but it was one of these kinds of threads on this board.)
That Kanye West and Cornell West are two different people.
Oops sorry, I should have put the correct word there. But so someone else had my experience! And the fact that Google doesn’t offer to correct you makes it seem like this is a rare mistake. My whole life I thought it was “momento”, until one day I paid attention and thought, “what’s a memento?” And I found out I’ve always been wrong! Now I’m wondering if it’s pronounced momento or memento?
A bit like kindergarden, but I found that out a bit earlier.
I’m 58. I never realised this until I was trying to remove a pump from an IV pole and a patient’s parent helped me out with this mnemonic.
“Righty-tighty, lefty-loosey” always seemed a bit too cutesy for me. My dad taught me the somewhat pithier mnemonic “Clock: Lock”.
Needs more cowbell.
This is great advice. Thank you!
Yea youre right. I should’ve said that too.
You drive a Yaris? … and admit it? 
Insert your own incest joke.
The Boy Scout motto, Be Prepared , has the same initials as the founder of Scouting, Baden-Powell. Except they’re the initials of his hyphenated last name (his first name was Robert)
I wouldn’t think much of this, ascribing it to mere coincidence, but Baden-Powell himself points it out in the seminal text he wrote, Scouting for Boys.
A couple years ago my wife explained the difference between cling and freestone peaches. I thought they were named randomly not literally.
Apparently they’re outlawed here in Ontario. All the pumps have the tab strip removed. We’re too stupid to use the auto-pump feature.
There’s a little arrow on your car’s instrument panel, next to the fuel gage, that points either left or right. (It’s right next to a symbol that looks like a gas pump, usually.) That arrow points to which side of the car you put the gas in.
Took me 47 years and many rental cars tp figure this one out.
To be fair, not all cars have this (or any indication at all).
I think all new cars have this, but they certainly didn’t 47 years ago.
Rhapsody Rabbit and Cat Concerto are an awful lot alike. Seen both cartoons countless times but until I youtubed them a few days ago I didn’t realize they had more than just Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2 in common.
It took me two 3-year relationships and many short-term boyfriends before I realized that as someone’s girlfriend * I * am supposed to be their priority, not drugs/booze/friends/anything else. My now-husband said one day “YOU are my girlfriend. YOU are my priority.” and I was like “Whaaa…?” 