Mystery of Broken Brake Lights

So I think I figured out the broken brake light problem.

Many cars here have 1-3 brake lights out. Every morning I drive behind someone with broken brake lights. It's dangerous. And reckless. And inconsiderate.

Back east, you are required to get your car inspected to get those stickers on your wind shield renewed. I think every two years?

But in WA the stickers are on your license plate. And they expire every year. Then you must renew and pay $227 to get new ones. No need to get your car inspected unless it's from before 2009. I'm going to guess that not having to inspect cars means more broken brake lights and people not knowing or caring? Can't get a ticket so who cares, right? 

This makes me wonder what the point is of paying over $200 every year just for shiny new stickers.

Lax Lights

So apparently brake lights don't mean a thing to PNWers. Every day I see cars with 1, 2 or 3 broken brake lights. Maybe it's not illegal in WA or something? I really did almost rear-end this one car with NO brake lights at all:

New Record

Pretty sure I just made a new parallel Parking tightness record! There's about a foot and a half total space between the cars to the front and back of my car. It's like NYC standards ;)

Tires Trying Tried Tired

How does one go about buying tires for a car? If left to my own devices, I decide based on the design of the tread pattern. 

I like the diagonal repetition of lines but I also like some kind of triangle in there. Oh, like argyle. Are there argyle tires? I would like that. I like the lines that have a heavy weight and are not super fine. Some pattern designs are so boring. Some look too shallow. I don't like the shade of black on some tires, but that could be the web site photography... I wonder if the tire people will think I'm crazy? 

I don't know anything about tires 🙃 (upside down smiley face)