All of the people in their Toyotas

[hack]

I think this is delightful. It somehow reminded me of another species altogether.
This poem:

"three crows dancing in a sacred manner
two crows crowd a roadkill rabbit
one crow wonders how his ancestors ate
before the night hunting BMW's came"

[PrinceMyshkin]

In a positive way,this reminded me of two "pre-existing"ditties. The first was by that extremely over-rated group, the Beatles, whose "Eleanor Rigby" asked the musical question,"All the lonely people/ Where do they all come from?"

The other one was by the legendary Pete Seeger, who incidentally, occasionally sails his sloop, Clearwaternear my neck o' the woods. One of his songs has this lyric:
"Little houses on the hillside, little houses made of ticky-tacky. . .and they all look the same."

Just a few feet down the hill from me are a bunch of condominums, totally overpriced at a third of a mill--for half a house with a postage-stamp sized lawn! They've not made out of "ticky-tacky" but of fiberboard. (It's true--I saw them being constructed.) You can bet your Toyota
that they all look dreadfully the same. I keep wondering if some drunk will come home to the wrong house on New Year's Eve.

The buildings in our apt complex, up the hill from the pricey condos, all look the same as well. As a matter of fact, it looks like a huge Motel 6, especially at night when the parking lot is packed with Toyotas (and every other make of car.) The only difference is, if you go to the rental office, they ain't gonna give you a free continental breakfast!

"extremely over-rated group, the Beatles"! Surely you jest, Madam!

[hack]

Say it ain't so Auntie, not the blinkin' fabs.