I love your work at Autoblog, but I can do without the bitchy commenters over there. Great story.

Great memories. I loved the early days of Winding Road.

David E. Davis, Jr. hired my mom to be Automobile's office manager in the late 1990s. As a budding car enthusiast, I spent as much time as possible inside the magazine's 120 East Liberty Street headquarters, learning everything I could from Davis, Jean Jennings, and the rest of the editorial staff, not to mention…

Jean saved my ass too many times to count. She kept me employed at Automobile when everyone else thought it was a foolish thing to do. And, forgive the imagery, but she taught every one of us how to whip it out and lay it on the table every month. There's only one Jean!

I met Jean Jennings at the beginning of June 2011. I was sitting at an interview (fresh out of college, hoping to be one of AutomobileMag.com's new Associate Web Editors) with two senior-level editors when Ms. Jennings whisked in clutching Evo's 2011 Speed Issue. She leaned against a filing cabinet, flipped through a…