I definitely missed the boat on winter tires...

The early winter, where it's like freezing but without any real snow, is a pretty BS period of time. Some commuters magically believe that wet roads + freezing temperatures = my car performs better...but somehow it just doesn't add up to them when they rear end the poor sap in front. For the rest of us it just means that our commute gets longer for no good reason, which for me means that I get to eat a cold PB&J sandwich and get crumbs all over my car instead of a warm toasted one sitting on the can in my kitchen.

The two things that I don't enjoy the most about my commute is that by the time I get to work my car has only just begun to warm up, and my weighted metal shift knob (which burns the shift pattern into my palm in the summer) holds the cold really, really well. 4 fast 4 4urious 4 life!