California 2K3 - Day 4 (Page 2)
This fish eye mirror is at the bend of the road (in the spot where I am standing in the picture on the right ), and if you're driving Granny-style, you might have enough time to look into it to see if there is oncoming traffic. But to speed demons, it serves no purpose. Which is why I used it to take a picture of us. It's like one of those mirrors in a fun house that distorts your image to make you look silly. That is why mirrors have a purpose. They distort our world so that we realize that there is more to life than normalcy, silliness is a quintessential element that makes up the majority of who we are, and predetermines the path on which we travel.
Tim was having way too much fun driving this BMW, he longed to accelerate around the corners, swerve in and out of his lane, stop on a dime, and go 0 to 60 in 3.7 seconds. If this was his car, believe me, he would. But it was not, and the rules (embodied by Kris) made him not do these things. He tried as hard as he could to break free from captivity, but he stayed grounded, as long as his Mom was riding shotgun. Ah well, when he gets rich and famous, he can buy his own car and do anything that he wants with it, and no one in this world can tell him otherwise, not even the police.
We were about to leave the mountain land, so Tim and I stood down in the ditch and did our now famous Bill and Ted pose. We then got back into the car and drove back to Gary and Cari's house. But there was one more thing that caught our eye when we got to the bottom of the hill...
We saw some horses, and this one was wearing a blindfold. Maybe he was playing pin the tail on the human. Maybe this was Stevie Wonder's horse. (I know I'll get some angry people yelling at me for making fun of the blind for that comment.)