Wednesday, February 18, 2009

[OUR FAIR CITY]: The Wall Street Journal profiles Mary Louise Cronin, whose job it is to figure out what phone calls are worthy of handling on NPR's Car Talk. Among the things which may earn the time of Click and Clack, the Tappet Brothers,
"The more immediate the problem, the better -- because the energy is better," she said. This translates into "I was driving down the highway yesterday and my engine started making this horrible clanging noise and smoke started coming out and now my car is dead at the side of the road." If, somehow, a fiery explosion is part of the mix, you're golden. "The guys really like fiery explosions," confided Ms. Cronin, who for the record drives a 2006 Mazda 3.

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