On the Road—in a Flippin' Company Car

I was pleased to notice last week that my employer had purchased a new fleet of company cars. I'm meeting with a writer in Cincinnati tomorrow, and I'd been looking forward to taking one of the new cars. Unfortunately, the company kept all the old cars.

As it were, the car I was assigned has a cassette player instead of a CD player, and the cassette player doesn't work. Even worse, the car doesn't have cupholders. I had no idea that we had a company car without cupholders. In fact, I didn't know that any car manufactured in the past decade had no cupholders. It's inexcusable—and dangerous. Spilled beverages lead to careless driving, which leads to accidents.

I think the State of Tennessee needs to pass a law that requires all cars sold in the state to have cupholders. It would be a frivilous piece of legislation, but it makes a lot more sense than some of the bills that our legislature has considered.