Herbie

Remember those old Disney movies with the sentient Volkswagen?  It was a fun take on our tendency as a species to anthropomorphize our vehicles.  And as a kid with few friends, I found the idea of being besties with a car to be a very reasonable movie premise.  So it was that my favorite in the series became Herbie Goes Bananas.  It involved a Hispanic orphan who gets into wacky adventures with the car, culminating in them foiling a plot to steal Aztec gold by a gang of enterprising bandits.  That touch of Indiana Jones in the story must have really taken me in.

Anyway, another individual with a goofy sense of humor must have found meaning in these films too, for we witnessed this in the parking lot during a Target run:

Not exactly a Volkswagen, but no matter.  See you around, Ocho.

–Simon

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