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