Lessons in security and suspicion

Lessons in security and suspicion

I bought my first car when I was 18 and it was fraught with problems. The previous owner had poorly customized the Mercury Capri, as I would discover. That’s why the dealership offered it at a price I could afford. My dad, an expert haggler, drove the price even lower. He repeatedly deployed the time-honored leveraging tactic of threatening to leave. “You’ve got to do better than that, Tim, unless you want us to walk out of here and take our mon…