I just recently married and am still driving a '99 Chrysler Cirrus I’ve had for almost a decade (which was passed to me by my late grandmother).
The car is seeing an inordinate amount of the road with my commute/travel for work, and has subsequently incurred some pretty serious (and costly) repairs in the past few years. With each new trip to the shop, the calls from the women in my life (Mother, Sister, and Wife) grow ever-louder for me to sever ties with my cherished chariot.
Thus, I will be sharing Dan’s wonderfully insightful theory with all of them in the hope these women will see my deep connection with the car less as a worrisome sign of desperate delusion, and more an illustration of faultless fidelity to the things I love.
…though, despite Dan’s automotive-amore genius, probability and prior experience dictate I am far more likely to have a change of heart, before any of these women have a change of mind!