Stopped at a traffic light today, I was surprised to see a McLaren MP4-12C pull up next to me. However, shortly after the heavy traffic began crawling forward again, I lost sight of it as that lane fell behind. It seems the car gods were teaching me a lesson: My car may be worth only 0.5% as much, but speed still comes down to who didn't get caught in the lane with an over-loaded semi half-a-block ahead. Perhaps a car that is theoretically fast on the track isn't what this world needs. Someone should make an urban supercar: extra small and manoeuvrable, it can hop between lanes in an instant, fit into tiny gaps in traffic, and navigate busy streets in record time. I guess that would be a motorbike.
Then a couple of hours later on nearly the same stretch of road coming back in the other direction, I saw a Mercedes SLS, their top-of-the-line sports car. It was about to turn into a parking lot, and I was tempted to follow just to watch the driver open the gull-wing doors - which, aside from looking cool, would finally answer the question of whether you can open gull-wing doors in a crowded parking lot. It was then that it occurred to me: Parking lot? It was headed for Home Depot! Again, like seeing a supermodel belch, it was an important lesson that we're all the same deep down.
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