Whose Line Is It Anyway? #16 - Car Talk

We realized how much the concept of "road trip" had sunk into the mind of my son only when we went for a day visit to LA area. He assumed that we are going to be on road for a few days. While we reached Malibu to visit the temple there (after 2hr drive), he was checking with me whether I have made reservations at the hotel. And went to the extent of cutting a deal that he will wear his watch (which was not comforting him) only till we get to the hotel. For him, the highlight of any road trip is the occasional stops we make to get him his milk during his snack time. Invariably its the flavored milk/cookie snack at some Starbucks location. Hence in today's pic you can see him enjoying his snack next to an unknown person in a high stool in Malibu Starbuck's location along the PCH - all by himself. Taken with my cellphone camera.

My car is a Black Honda V6. I took care of it so well that I would never even let the tank go more than half empty. Some of my friends that time found it amusing too. Then along came my son and my grip on the car's cleanliness started to wane. Plainly speaking couldn't keep up. At present, most times I pretend the rear seats don't exist and not dare to look behind - with everything from toys, crayons, pencils, papers, empty juice cans and so on and so forth strewn across the entire rear seat area - courtesy of you-know-who. One fine day, my son looked at me and , out of the blue, said, "appa, I dont like our car". I know he has a thing for cars (the number of hot wheels toy cars we had bought would near triple digits now). Hoping to hear a name like Mustang or SUV etc, I asked why he thought so. With a matter of fact face, "Its very dirty appa". Now thats what they call "adding insult to injury".

While we are filling up gas at a Costco Gas Station, a Corvette pulled in to the pump next to us. Familiar with Hondas and Toyotas, our son was somewhat intrigued by the Corvette's design. He asked "Whats that funny car, Mom ?". My wife took a look and said, "Its a Corvette". My son thought my mom din't frame the sentence correctly and hence doubled-checked "Are you saying the car is wet ?".  The owner of the famed vehicle was blissfully unaware of whats happening to his famed car's ego in our car near him.