$279,000 No Pest Strips

If this photo doesn't get you excited, those of us who do go into heat when seeing this don't understand.

I've liked cars since I was a little kid.  I earned Arrowhead points as a Cub Scout for being able to identify different makes, models, and years of cars.  

The beauty pictured above is a Porsche 911 Turbo S.  

My wife is car-agnostic.  If she sees an SUV in the same color as hers, she'll just as likely get in that car in the parking lot as not.  They all look the same to her.  I've seen her get into a car similar to hers with people in that car!

She doesn't understand the Porsche 911 Turbo S.  It's too small.  It's kinda ugly.  And why would someone buy an expensive car and have No-Pest strips on the wheels?

If you were born after 1980, you may not remember No-Pest strips.  Because they were outlawed for being poisonous, cancer-causing nightmare machines.  

They were a garish yellow strip that hung where there were flying, biting insects. Especially in the un-airconditioned kitchen in the middle of a muggy Southern summer.  

That's what my wife thinks yellow Brembo brake calipers look like.  

Brembo is an Italian company that manufactures high-quality brakes.  In order to stand out, they paint their calipers different colors.  First, red for Formula 1.  Then yellow.  The luring public got hooked.  

It has led to BDS, brake derangement syndrome.  No car is cool unless it has brightly colored brake calipers.  

It has gotten so crazy that you can buy vinyl brake caliper covers if you're ride didn't come equipped properly.  Upgrade dad's (or grandma's or junior's) hooptie today!

So, perhaps my wife is smarter about colorful brake calipers than the average man.  If I could get my hands on some No-Pest strips, I could launch a profitable side hustle.

I'd call it the Oh So Fly No-Fly Zone.