Driving

Lights In The Mirror

It has been a hectic day, you’re tired, running late, and on your way to the grocery store up the street to grab a take-and-bake pizza for dinner. You whip out of the driveway and onto the street in front of your house, a section of road you drive 10 times a day. While fiddling with your iPhone, you instinctively accelerate to 15mph over the posted speed limit…

Bumper Sticker

Due to popular demand, you can now purchase PowerOgre.com bumper stickers. This classic looking white sticker will show the world that you love PowerOgre.com. Put one on your BMW, your Mercedes, or your 1996 Ford Aspire. You can’t go wrong with the PowerOgre bumper sticker, and because we value you as a fan here at PowerOgre, we are offering the bumper stickers at the incredible sale price of $4.00!!! (plus…

5 Rules For Driving A Manual Shift Vehicle

Driving a manual or stick shift vehicle requires a little something extra. Once upon a time, all vehicles were manual shift. Those were the days of “3 on the tree” and “4 on the floor”, a reference to the location, and number of gears. Today, there are many people who have never heard those terms, they think “4 on the floor” means ‘don’t lean back in your chair at the…

Things I Learned In College

I learned a lot in high school which I wrote about here. College was the next step in life, and I learned many things during that stage as well. In no particular order…

  • Moving away from home for the first time is exciting and at the same time scary.
  • Planning your own meals and cooking for yourself for the first time leads to obesity.

Driving Observations

Have you ever been on the road and wondered where everyone else is going? Have you ever stood on a freeway overpass and observed the endless river of vehicles passing beneath? Are all these people really going somewhere important? Consider the reason you are on the road. Are you going somewhere important? There have been many times I have gone out on the roads simply to drive with no destination…