Snails and Ale

Tuesday, May 28, 2002

The train just whizzed by a used car lot, where there are usually four cars parked out front, with huge letters stenciled on the windshield, one with an S, the next with an A, followed by an L and an E. Apparetnly there's always a big SALE! going on, a SALE! so big they have to write on the cars to make their point.

Today the S was gone, and there's a huge vehicular sign crying out ALE! and I think, Huzzah!

A few moments later, I wonder where the S car is. Is someone taking it on a teSt drive? Are they Squinting through the windShield? Does someone else, watching them drive by, nudge their partner and say, "Hey, look at that S-car go!"? Is there the obligatory snail behind the wheel?

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