Retail Therapy

According to Google, it was Marilyn Monroe who famously said, “When the going gets tough, the tough go shopping.” Well, a lot of Americans certainly do, including yours truly. Shopping is even patriotic and courageous. Remember President Shrub saying after 9/11, "This great nation will never be intimidated. People are going about their daily lives, working and shopping and playing, worshiping at churches and synagogues and mosques, going to movies and to baseball games." So, who am I to argue.

Terry and I have often discussed moving to cars with automatic transmissions, especially after one of us has spent an hour inching up to the Bay Bridge toll plaza with left knee tendons burning. Conveniently, automatic transmissions have made a huge leap forward in the last few years. The current Porsche DoppelKupplung PDK system uses two clutches, one for the even gears and one for the odd. So the next gear up or down has already engaged when the car shifts. A modern Porsche with automatic transmission actually performs better than one equipped with a standard transmission.

So, we’ve decided to buy a new car (or two) as we go through this [preowned new, probably]. Top on my list - the Porsche Cayman with the PDK system.