car talk

this XJ-S has been parked in the same spot before my apartment house for several weeks collecting tree droppings and, given the local leftist's frequent torching of luxury automobiles, making me a bit nervous. i assume the owner is on holiday, incarcerated, or otherwise indisposed. part of me likes to imagine him as an international man of mystery, an arms broker or dealer in sketchy financial instruments, who has been taken to task by a few unhappy customers, liquidated and left bundled up in the boot of his sleek ride. unfortunately a sniffing circumambulation detected no untoward odors...