This year, for Thanksgiving, I’m grateful for the people in my life. In particular, for my life partner/wife, who has sworn off the site formerly known as Twitter and instead sends me just a nonstop deluge of amazing Instagram reels. Some of these are short videos of meals she’d like me to make for the family, parents complaining about children complaining, or cats being just the biggest jerks you’ve ever seen in your whole damn life. Often, she will send me videos of cars.
While we are big readers and always have a stack of books next to the bed (I’m reading this book about FDR’s New Deal music program), we spend many nights cuddled together trying to find the video that will make the other person laugh the hardest. Last night we busted our guts so hard that my daughter came into our room and asked if we were watching reels. I hid my phone and pretended like we were reading so she’d go to sleep.
If there’s one category she knows I will always react to it is, of course, stupidity around cars/bikes/trucks/vehicles. I hope that your holiday is full of joy and family, even though those two concepts can often be in opposition. No matter what happens, I hope you eat so much that you end up on the couch in a delightful stupor, with gravy-infused drool pouring like a fountain out of your lips and onto your unbelted, cranberry-stained pants. If you find yourself in that condition, I hope all of these reels will keep you company.
Also, on some phones/browsers, this might look like absolute trash. Sorry!
You Can Never Win
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When I See You Again…
You can find us where the party’s at
Damn, this slaps
A classic that never ages
He knew what he was doing
Dumb isn’t always bad
Hell yeah, these are great
Get it Hot Wheels
This is kind of genius.
Also this is just smart
$2500 worth of extra stuff? How much was this thing?
Oh nooooo!
I mean, it almost worked
Hell yeah, ‘Murica
Don’t honk at people, it’s rude
This is how I wish I drove, and what I wish I drove
Is this staged? No idea, but it feels real
Definitely staged
Not all of them are people eating shit. Here’s the NYC DOT putting down lines for the NYC Marathon.
It’s a Bird on a Bird!
This is truly life in New York
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Cats AND Cars, hell yeah.
Look at Pee Paw on the scooter over there!
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This one is for Houston.
That’s a big cat
C’mon NYC DOT get on it..
Uh… 26 Jump Street
Hell yeah, Thanksgiving is over… which means it’s time for…
Happy Thanksgiving! I hope you enjoyed this post.
(Also, there’s an Amazon link in here, so if you buy a book about a New Deal music program we might get a commission and you might get some knowledge).
Sorry, can’t be real thankful for “Click to accept marketing cookies and enable this content” I love (and paid for) the site, but this article was a half-dozen short animated gifs for me.
I think that’s Insta and not us?
Happy Thanksgiving, Matt and family. Thanks for stuffing our holiday plates so that we can watch these hilarious turkeys roll with their cars. Always relish these reels and having so many mashed together in one place is gravy. Gotta run before I turn into a pumpkin. Have a great holiday Autopians!
What a peach!