Most of my life I had to buy old beat up cars at a discount because that’s all I could afford. This was fine when I had a friend close-by who was a fantastic mechanic and would willingly trade car repair work for food or alcohol. However, that friend of mine recently married his high school sweetheart and moved across the country to her home state. Now I’m left with the local mechanics, many of whom have poor reviews on the internet. Some of these people will try to scam you for your money on repairs that don’t need to be made. I have heard horror stories about people bringing their vehicles to those tire and lube shops and then catching the mechanics sabotaging their vehicles to find things to fix and charge them for. That is such a horrifying thought to me that I finally broke down and purchased a new car as soon as I could improve my credit enough to get a competitive payment option and loan. One unexpected feature that I love a lot about this new car are the airtight compartments that completely enclose food and cannabis odors. Even though we have a legal cannabis industry here, some police officers have tried charging cannabis users with DUIs just for having the products in their car, even if the person is driving home from the cannabis dispensary and it’s all in the bag with labels intact and a receipt to go with it all. But with my new car, I can throw my cannabis products from the dispensary in one of the airtight compartments and there’s no way anyone, let alone a cop, would know that I have marijuana in my car.