One of my favorite quotes is attributed to Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones. As the story goes, an interviewer once asked the question: "Don't you feel at least a little bit foolish doing what you do on stage at your age?" His response was: "There's a part of me that's sixteen years old...and I nuture it."

So several years ago, I arrive at a car event and the tech line to be classed was embedded in the show field. I slowly burble through the crowd with my sunglasses on and the t-tops off, turn up ZZTop "Tres Hombres" (La Grange, to be precise) thumping on the 8-track and, not only am I sixteen again, I'm as cool as it gets.

I slow to a halt due to pedestrian traffic and sit there enjoying the moment when all of a sudden I'm distracted by movement to my right. I turn my head and there's this sweet, little, old, white-haired lady with her head in the car checking it out. She had to have been pushing seventy-five. She looks up with a smile and says: "What a nice car!...can I go for a ride?"

So much for thinking I had a "chick magnet"...

Tinman

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