They said, “Don’t worry, it’s a short drive.”
\nYeah
\nRight<\/p>\n
When you’re crammed into the “back seat”
\nOf a yellow 77 Volkswagon Beetle
\nAlong with 2 boxes of random stuff, a few bags of odd smelling food
\nAnd a particularly friendly chihuahua named Gnash
\nA mile may have been a hundred, for all the comfort it allowed.<\/p>\n
The seats smelled of vomit and old lady
\nTurns out the car was once owned by my “friends” abuela
\nSome 20 years before
\nIt had sat dormant for the better part of a decade.<\/p>\n
Try as I might, comfort was moot
\nAs was the lack of drool and a sense of impending doom I felt
\nEvery time I heard a rattle or felt the jar of deathtrap over tracks
\nThe only solace being the tiny window I opted to peer out of as we journeyed<\/p>\n
The view was quite pleasant; even soothing.
\nEspecially that time an attractive woman looked at me while stopped at a red light
\nAnd she smiled at me, eyes peering over mirrored shades
\nI smiled back<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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