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My husband Tommy, a relatively nice-looking guy, had to get our son's car inspected for him. The car in question is the less than impressive Geo Tracker. After getting it inspected Tommy stopped at the gas station and there he saw a nice-looking woman whose age he estimated at mid-thirties, a good ten years younger than himself, "making eyes" at him. He smiled and came home to proudly tell me he still had it.

"I never doubted it, baby." I replied as any good wife should knowing how fragile the male ego can be.

"And I was just in the Geo, too." he added as if that meant something.

"What do you mean exactly?" I asked curiously. He looked at me dumbfounded then he remembered I'm not at all like most women. Many times he has to tell me what most women are like. This was one of those times.

He explained that most women won't give a first look let alone a second to a guy driving a minivan, a Honda Civic or the equivalent or an old broken-down anything. Women judged men by what they drive he told me. This was news to me.

"You mean to say that just because you were in the Geo instead of a Corvette most women wouldn't give you the time of day even though you're so cute?" I asked incredulously. "But that woman obviously liked you. Doesn't that disputes your assertions?"

He assured me that was the case and that the woman was probably hard up and would have taken anybody. He then proceeded to tell me what cars women really liked men to drive. The more expensive and flashy the car the hotter the man suddenly became. Bold SUV's, huge pick-up trucks and sporty things gave any man a few extra points on the 0-10 scale of attractiveness. I couldn't believe women, my own kindred sisters could be so shallow. I told him he would have to prove it to me.

I thus sent him out on an unofficial survey of his own. We already knew he could attract someone while driving the Geo. So far I was winning this little debate. He insisted he would prove his theory. The next day he went to work driving the Dodge Ram 2000 pick-up truck with cab. While stopped at a traffic light and singing along loudly and in a voice to scare off anyone he noticed two girls in their twenties in a car beside him looking up at him and singing along to the same song and obviously flirting with him.

He came home with his report and with a satisfied smirk. He thought he was proving his point. I think he proved mine but let's continue.

Next day he went out in my drab, housewife Chevy Astro-van, the sex appeal death Nell as he called

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