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I found a red 8th gen for a fair price for sale and I’ve been planning to get another one of these cars even since I sold mine. I’ve regretted it more than almost any other decision I’ve made in my life, so I’ve been determined to get another one asap. So today I found this perfect sedan in red. At first I thought “maybe the red is too much.” But it’s been stuck in my head all night. Personally I’ve never even seen a red one in real life. Just the classic brownish/ silver, blue, white, or black. I’m not quite financially ready to pull the trigger, but seeing how great the condition is on this car all around, the mileage being low, and the price being right, I’m afraid this might forever be the one that got away if I don’t go and pick it up now. It is halfway across the country, but I’d be happy to make the drive if it ends with me driving my dream 8th gen home. But my question is, just how rare is red? Will I be able to ever find another clean one like it again if I let this go for a year or two?

Tonight, for the second day in a row, I had a large party of 11 people. And for the second night in a row, their bill was around $200 and I only received a $5 tip. They were incredibly needy, but I was more than happy to run like crazy for them. 3-4 soup refills per person. Custom salads, even when I saw people eating it that weren’t paying for it. Probably 30 breadsticks over the course of the meal. Bring them in for a single alfredo boat but probably served them 10 of them because of unlimited refills. And in the end they leave $5 and a pile of puke on the table. I’m so over it man. Olive Garden used to have automatic gratuity on parties over a certain size because of this exact problem. Like any decent restaurant would. But then they got rid of it because of course they’re cheap. They know that there are certain people who aren’t going to come in and spend money here if they know they have to tip automatically a certain percentage on a large party. Any decent restaurant would protect their employees and insist on the automatic gratuity. I don’t care if it’s just $20, or 15%, or however they want to do it. But just letting us get screwed over like this is so emblematic of the entire way this company treats us. I’ve never been more aware that a company was Run to maximize every single cent, and often at the detriment of the employees and customers. Our location frequently locks the break room with all of our belongings inside of it because “you guys vape in there.” they’re talking about installing vape detection sensors in the bathrooms, but meanwhile our entire HVAC system doesn’t work. It spits out hot air in the middle of the summer when they try to run the AC. We don’t have enough spoons or cups, so we frequently run out, even on nights that aren’t that busy and have to serve plastic replacements. It’s just such a poorly run company and I consider myself a fool for having stayed this long