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Hi, I'm Dave, and you probably can already tell. It is a windy and chilly morning where I am.

And hopefully the weather is better where you are, but because we are now smack dab in winter,

unless you are further south than me, probably isn't much better.

So the other day, if you've been listening this for a while now, the other day, I took a walk while I was waiting for my car to be serviced.

And something interesting happened when I dropped the car off, the service technician asked me how I liked it.

And it's a fairly new car.

We've had it for about a year.

And I said, I love it, except, except I'm not crazy about the feature that turns the engine

off when I come to a stop.

Does your car have this?

I didn't even know this was available until, I don't know, maybe a year or so ago,

right before I actually bought our car, I was on a walk and came to an intersection and was waiting for the light to change. The light

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