......I, myself, did my analysis from the perspective of a full-blown midlife crisis. After an astonishingly brief conversation with my wife -- isn't your spouse supposed to hear you out and sympathize with your needs? -- it turned out that the whole girlfriend/mistress thing was emphatically a non-starter. That left the car option.
i almost squirted my drink out my nose when i read this!...lol....something i would not have the balls to say to my wife, but I'd imagine the conversation coming out the exact same way