So I’m driving to pick up ‘s laptop, which just had a fan so clogged with dust that it wouldn’t spin.

I’m sitting at a red light behind a big SUV which has dried mud-dust on it. But on the rear hatch, amidst the caked mud, there is a clean spot in the perfect shape of a heart. It looks like there was a heart shaped bumper sticker or something on the car, it got dirty, and then someone pulled off the sticker.

And my question is… why?

Why did someone choose to remove this heart shaped sticker?
Why was it there in the first place, if they didn’t want it?
If they were trying to make the car look nicer, why didn’t they clean off the mud?
Or are they driving to a car wash to get the mud off?
Did the kids stick it on, against the parents’ wishes?
Did some anti-SUVer stick a “love mother earth” sticker on the SUV?
Perhaps the mud was there before the sticker, and the mud prevented the sticker from staying on, but pulled the mud off when it fell?

It bothered me all the way to CompUSA.

This morning as I was taking a shower I tried to sort out a jumble of scenes in my head and attribute them to either Scout’s Honor or On The Right Track, both Gary Coleman movies from the early 80s, both about a plucky orphaned black kid who turns some white people’s worlds on their ears.

Back to reality…