My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.

Actually I’m fine with my car, but if I did have a Mercedes Benz I would have found the one place I would not take it for service today.

Sitting at a light on Route 7, this hatchback pulls up next to me. It has stickers on the back window and sides of the car advertising some German Auto shop. It says they specialize in BMWs, VWS and Mercerdes. Yes that’s an extra R on purpose.

Now I’m the first to admit that at times I’m behind the 8-ball on some things and it very much occurred to me at that point that I may not have known how to spell Mercedes. But after a few minutes of thinking–thank you stop-and-go traffic–I did convince myself that I was not an idiot, and that the person who owns this business in fact is.

And yes I did a Google search immediately after I got home, just to make sure.