Indicators (auto)

Ooh look, pretty little orange lights on the side of my car. Aren’t they just the funniest thing you ever saw? I wonder what they’re for. Let’s test them. WOW!! They even make a humorous noise: “Tic-toc-tic-toc-tic-toc.” That’s literally the most entertaining thing I’ve seen today. What can they be for? Too orange to be useful, unless they’re fruit or vitamins. Not bright enough to illuminate anything. They only work intermittently anyway, so what’s the use of that?

Fuck it, they must be a mistake. I know, I’ll just pretend they don’t exist and NEVER USE THEM. After all, I know better than countless generations of master car designers, etc etc.

But the truth of the matter is, as every single reader is doubtless agreeing, they’re bastard useful. So why don’t more people use them, I wonder?

Fernet

Hard to know where to put this one, because I drink it and I like it, and I’ve had some great times with friends while in the company of Fernet.
But there’s a very old secondhand bookshop in my home city called the Scientific Anglian. Extraordinary place; it has a tree growing out of the upstairs window. Anyway, if you took that bookshop, with all its very ancient, musty contents and its very ancient, musty owner in his slightly kinky rubber raincoat and passed it all through a distillery, you would get Fernet. Fernet Branca smells like old books suspended in alcohol. And we drink gallons of it. Weird place, Argentina.