Current mood:	amused
Entry tags:	h-wing

Who is more foolish...
..the fool, or the fool that calls him one?

Whilst driving to Griffith Observatory via the 10 freeway last week, some kids took advantage of the tragically slow traffic to examine the H-Wing. They were aboard what we call "the short bus", those tiny transports usually reserved for tots political correctness has dubbed "developmentally disabled"; we used to call them "retarded". At the charity events I do, they are called "differently-abled".

Most of the kids were excited to see the car, waving and calling out the windows. Their speech difficulties identified them pretty solidly in the "differently-abled" category. But they were having a great time, yelling at R2 and generally upsetting their bus driver.

As traffic began to speed up, and I finally passed the front of the bus, I heard the following from the window just behind the driver's seat:

"DUDE! Your car is totally retarded!"

It was called out with the slurred voice of authority, and I got the feeling that I had just been dissed by the coolest kid on the short bus, who won a bloodless coup and showed how much cooler he was than I amongst his peers.

I had a smile on my face all day knowing that, among the short bus crowd, I was in the short car.