Just returned from an harmonious and uneventful drive with the small blue car to the library and to the grocery store. At least at 30 m.p.h. or less, the transmission (and everything else about the small blue car) functions flawlessly and I ask you not to junk it, but to let me drive it until the car or I expire, whichever happens first. Meanwhile you should drive the Red Car. (If you drive the small blue car nonetheless, please note that you should re-adjust the outside mirrors.) I have no objection to purchasing a new car for Nathaniel and/or for you at this time. I hope your day is not too difficult.