Terry Prone: It’s hard to admit to the little scrapes we encounter in daily life

If the iPad responds to being turned off and turned on again, you’d figure the same would apply to a Fiesta engine, wouldn’t you? 

Columnist Terry Prone considered an application of Vaseline and red nail varnish to conceal a scratch on her rental car. Picture: iStock

I rely on all readers of this column to keep its content to themselves, today. I could do without friends, relatives, and Justin in Enterprise Rent-a-Car knowing the full depth of my vehicular incompetence.

It started, just a week ago, with the heater in my beat-up ancient Fiesta going mutinous.