You can’t fire me, I quit’ I swear is what I heard from my 2010 Pontiac Vibe last Saturday at the dealership… if you read last week’s newsletter, you will know this car had a nickname of ‘Tim.’ Even though I do refer to her as a ‘she’ their name is Tim.

New cars make me nervous. Will we get along? Can I trust them? What types of quirks will they have and will I be able to live with that? How quickly will it turn into a messy car, stacked with mementos that sort of just meld into it. As I write this, I am avoiding the ‘final clean’ of Le Vibe, nicknamed ‘Tim’ by my friend Jason Crosby,