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My Dad is Still My Dad: And Other Things I'm Still Figuring Out

by Porter Moore
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9798195457372
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Independently Published
  • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published
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  • Pages: 118
  • Original Price: GBP 14.69
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 291 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): General

THE VEHICLE THAT IS NOT WHAT YOU THINK IT IS
There is a particular kind of confidence that appears the first time someone walks up to a private bus or a limousine with a bucket, a towel, and a deeply unearned sense of familiarity. It looks like a car, they think. It is long, sure, but fundamentally the same. Paint is paint. Glass is glass. Dirt is dirt. This belief will survive approximately twelve minutes.
Because a limousine is not a car that grew longer. A private bus is not a van that succeeded. These are environments. These are mobile interiors with reputations attached. These are systems that sell experience, not transportation. The exterior is theater. The interior is contract fulfillment. The mechanical systems exist to support timing, and timing exists to support expectation, and expectation is the only thing anyone actually remembers.
You are not cleaning a vehicle. You are maintaining an illusion that must hold under inspection, under lighting, under intoxication, under boredom, under comparison, and occasionally under the very specific scrutiny of someone who paid too much and now needs proof.
THE VEHICLE THAT IS NOT WHAT YOU THINK IT IS
There is a particular kind of confidence that appears the first time someone walks up to a private bus or a limousine with a bucket, a towel, and a deeply unearned sense of familiarity. It looks like a car, they think. It is long, sure, but fundamentally the same. Paint is paint. Glass is glass. Dirt is dirt. This belief will survive approximately twelve minutes.
Because a limousine is not a car that grew longer. A private bus is not a van that succeeded. These are environments. These are mobile interiors with reputations attached. These are systems that sell experience, not transportation. The exterior is theater. The interior is contract fulfillment. The mechanical systems exist to support timing, and timing exists to support expectation, and expectation is the only thing anyone actually remembers.
You are not cleaning a vehicle. You are maintaining an illusion that must hold under inspection, under lighting, under intoxication, under boredom, under comparison, and occasionally under the very specific scrutiny of someone who paid too much and now needs proof.

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