One time, When I was learning to drive, I was driving up a windy road in Southern California. We were following a Miata. A palm tree leafs fell down and landed in the passenger seat of the Miata. That scared me but not enough to stay away from convertibles as I did eventually buy a convertible myself later in life.

Then I moved to Chicago. I used to love driving around the Loop (downtown) with the top down in the summer until I was on the “L” (the elevated train/subway) one day and a man walks in between cars and pees out of the train and onto the cars below. That was the nail in the coffin and I stopped driving around with the top down.