XAH used to tell me that it just didn't MATTER if I understood why the bank books didn't balance. "There are things you just need to take on faith; it isn't necessary to understand, they just ARE!"
I wondered where he came up w/such crazy crap! After he'd been gone a while, I began to realize how much of what he used to tell me was AA philosophy twisted and applied to situations where it was never meant to apply...
Like Lexie, I always thought that the Kelly Blue Book was the authoritative resource for the value of a vehicle.