I brought my car in for an oil change this morning and, after blocking the usual upsell attempts (No, I’m not interested in adding $300 in unnecessary services, even if they’re ‘highly recommended’), I was thinking a bit about cars and car culture during my drive down to the office.

Now, I’ve never been much of a car guy — twin cam, dual overhead, shift on the fly combustible edison, vin diesel car-speak has never really spoken to me.  However, being a Southern Californian for going on five years now, it’s virtually impossible to ignore the car culture here.  Maybe it’s because we spend so much time in our cars, or perhaps it’s their unnaturally long car-lives (for real, on the East Coast, cars don’t live forever the way they do out here), but folks out here have a strong attachment to their automobiles.

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