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, Then popped into an eyeglasses repair shop for free services from a lovely girl. We crossed the boulevard to a pub with their own line of microbrews and watched 1/2 a college football game while I downed mug after mug of rootbeer float and RJ sampled the brews. Our waitress was a brassy, sassy Brooklyn in Miami type who kept up cheerful banter and chatted about life and plans and vacations. After beers we wandered over to the Aston Martin dealership and took a turn sitting in a lotus. RJ doesn't fit in a lotus in the least, but kept trying to convince me that i needed one. Ummmm....I'm scrambling to find $4200 to buy the used Ford 500 from my dad's company end of lease. They sell them for half market value to employees and family, and although Lunelle has made a full and miraculous recovery from all ailments, she is turning 180,000 miles soon and I pack more than 80 miles a day into that engine on the commute alone. If I drive only to work and back daily, 5 days a week, 5 days a year, I will burn through 32,000 miles a year. My Camry died at 215,000 and even then it could have kept going if I had gotten her a new radiator etc etc. So, no spare cash for a LOTUS, but it was fun to pretend. After looking at cars that we could pretend to purchase, we walked over to gape at cars we never could at the Exotic Car Gallery, http://www.exoticcargallery.com/ . We discovered that RJ likes the cars that look to me like they were doodled by 3rd graders, Mazzeratis all low to the ground and boxy with spoilers and angled fenders...while i like curvy little Bugatis with swoopy lines and big asses. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPQ5iZZa We wandered over to the Mall at Millenia where I turned a Victoria Secret coupon and store credit into purchases, then wandered the mall enjoying the fountains and the video fashion art mural. You stand on a giant astrological calendar under a circl or video screens that plays pictures from the catwalk and alternates between classical and techno music....

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