when you get this message from your car

you have startle response

turn around very carefully

and see this

 ah, just another pinata

clearly my car doesn’t know me well enough yet.

i was picturing one of those scary old tales

we used to terrorize each other with

it would be either a guy with a hook

or a pumpkin head with no body.

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look out! behind you!

-ralph waldo emerson