Hammer Time: Trivial Pursuits
Knowledge is not always a good thing. Esoteric. Rarified. Just plain old pointless. High school? Anyhow, I have this strange fascination with car reviews. Not the new snuff. But those older wilted beaters that the marketplace has more or less forgotten. You talk to me about a Volvo 240 and my mind will recall a few of these write-up’s and a neat little side story. A 2011 Prius? I would almost rather watch the grass grow.
Old Lincolns remind me of a mule trader named Ray Lum. He wrote a book called, “ You live and learn. Then you die and forget it all.” Ray was one of the last mule traders in the South and had an amazing assortment of stories that he told the author, a folklorist, as he drove his beat up old Lincoln to the sales. One time he talked to a little old lady about a Model A that was at a cattle auction. “Have you ever ridden in the back of one of those maam?” he said in his Mississippi drawl. The lady, as cute as a button remarked, “You bet. I rode two men in that back seat before I got married.” Old Fords and Lincolns always make me smile.
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Let's put this in perspective... In 20 to 30 years, there will be plenty of people with memories like these of Priuses and the like. Every generation gets its own touchstones - or touchfenders.
I liked the dark blue interior, and really wish we would go back to the days when you could choose colors other than tan or gray. Spent the better part of one school year riding to class in an old Beetle. car insurance quotes