Evolution

car (P) Pronunciation Key (kär) n.

An automobile.
A vehicle, such as a streetcar, that runs on rails: a railroad car.
A boxlike enclosure for passengers and freight on a conveyance: an elevator car.
The part of a balloon or airship that carries people and cargo.
Archaic. A chariot, carriage, or cart.

That's according to dictionary.com.

That's bland.

'Car' - to me - is red. Sinhy. Mine at least. Which you probably know by now.

It's 4:49. A little over an hour before I get to go home for the day. I'm greedily eyeing the car keys. Have been since the morning. Can't wait to slide into the leather seats, put on track 9 (Guitara's Ya Ghaali) pump up the volume and enjoy the forty minute ride home.

Foot on accelerator and subconciously try to make it through Al wasl stretch in less time than it took the day before. Absent-mindedly negotiate the fastest lane down Sheikh Zayed and then automatically scan the road for potential drivers to show down.

When did I become one of those people that get all orgasmic at the thought of driving their car?

When did I become one of those people that enjoy Arabic music pumped all the way up while doing so?

It happened slowly. Or did it?

In Leonard Bett’s, episode 12 of X-Files season 4, Mulder reminds Scully that recent evolutionary theory believes that “evolutionary advances are cataclysmic, not gradual. That evolution occurs not along a straight, graphable line, but in huge fits and starts and that the unimaginable happens in the gaps ”.

Am I just trying to use any feeble ruse to link my life to anything said or done in X-Files (to which I am addicted these days BTW)?

When did I become one of those people that are addicted to TV shows any way?