This. Thanks for writing that post. :)

It's funny you live in the area--i figure you know what's going on there. I meant my car example to be totally hypothetical. But I don't see how it is a bad analogy? just asking... :-)

analogies are almost never perfect. but as long as they illustrate the point (e.g., company employees are not fair subsets of the consumer population), an analogy does its job, right?