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And she doesn’t even know it.

We used to live in California and before we had kids, I had a nice car. One day, I was driving my nice car through a not-so-nice neighborhood. I had to be at work at 5am so I left pretty early. Anyway, I was stopped at a traffic light and a gentleman approached my car. He had some friends with him but he got out alone. He tapped on the window and I said, “What?” He made the motion to roll down my window and I immediately started to laugh.

I rolled down my window and said, “Hi, do you watch Ellen Degeneres?” He looked at me and moved his hand, which was in his pocket, and pointed something at me. Could have been his finger, could have been a gun, I don’t know. I should have hit the gas and gotten out of there but instead, I said, “Did you see the one where she talks about how people still use the crank motion to mean put the window down but no one has cranks anymore unless you drive a ’76 Dodge Dart?” “She said it would look stupid to make a motion like you were pushing a button but even though that’s what people have in cars now we all still use the crank motion. And you just did that, isn’t that funny? She’s really funny, do you watch her?” This guy looks at me like I am completely nuts, puts his hand down, goes back to his car, and drives away.

That is my favorite episode ever.