I finished off the thanksgiving leftovers for lunch today and it got me thinking about other kinds of leftovers. Like for these posts. I have index cards and sticky notes and notebook pages full of half-fledged ideas that I’m never going to do anything with so what do I do with those? I could congregate them into a final post of word vomit but I don’t feel like that’s very useful. I want to go out with a BANG not with a barf. So instead I’ll focus on leftovers when it comes to VW. Creature Feature! (Yeah, no clue why that’s where my mind went with that.)
Deep in the icy heart of Germany, there once was a being. A mishmash made entirely of cast off parts of old cars, the creature lurked in junkyards and back lots, abandoned parks and empty warehouses. It lived a lonely, solitary life, afraid of what the world would think if anyone ever saw its ugly face. “Lemon!” the neighborhood kids would yell at it. They always said that. And they threw sticks and rocks. The creature avoided the children, hid from them. It watched the other cars sometimes, through fences and windows. The creature wished to be like those cars, shiny and beautiful, but it was ugly and rusty instead. But one day an angel appeared, or at least what the creature thought was an angel. Surely no car it had ever seen before had been so beautiful. The angel car was not afraid of it, but approached it and then guided it out of the warehouse. The creature followed willingly. It would have followed that car anyway. It did not speak, but the creature saw a circle with upside down triangles in it on the car’s hood. The creature wondered about that. It thought about how similar that little circle was to the rusty broken one on its own hood. Eventually the angel car stopped at a large service station and invited the creature to go in. As soon as it entered the darkened garage, everything went black. The next thing it knew the creature was back outside of the service station. But something was different. the creature was a creature no longer but an antique, fully functional, and downright elegant car. That’s the beauty of lasting quality engines, and fully interchangeable parts.
Enduring value, but that’s about it. Weirdness. Kinda fun though.
Copy Write Paste 
I love this and can completely relate. I have more sheets of notebook paper, post-its, and half ideas scrawled on to my class notes than I know what to do with! This was a smart way to use all of them. Also gets me thinking… what scraped ideas does Volkswagen have in their waste bin? I’d love to see them Frankenstein their ideas together like this!