To my left, a sleeping dentist; to my right, an angry aesthete; and, in front of me, the funeral march that rises to a fugal fury, and breaks down into softly sobbing memories of themes, and then gives way to an entirely new mood — hard-driving, laughing, lurching, a little drunk.
A blond Hooters girl driving, swerving, laughing.
As of June 2016, 173 black men and women had been fatally shot by police this year – for the crime of raising their hands or walking down a street, or driving, or laughing, or having a mental illness, or playing in the park, or loving or simply breathing.
I'm not like: "What exactly is wrong with howling at women out of a van and then driving off laughing?
Of course, fifteen minutes later we were on the West Side Highway heading south on a beautiful spring day with Nina talking up a storm, driving fast, laughing at life, beautifully dressed, scarf around her neck blowing in the wind and suddenly she turned to me and yelled out "GRACE KELLY!" HUH?
They ford a stream and she reads aloud from her book as if it were something she knew: " 'There has never been a bridge on this spot.' " "Jesus Christ, where did you find that guidebook?" Cat says, laughing, driving with a wild flair.
"Driving the car, Bruce was in the back teasing me and yelling at me, telling me how bad I was driving," she says, laughing.
Cink, when asked how he keeps the vagaries of match play from driving him batty, laughed and said, "Well, you're assuming that I'm not batty".
And while the headaches of holiday traffic are well-documented in popular culture -- from classic songs to those omnipresent parodies -- the dangers of holiday driving are no laughing matter.
A traffic officer flagged him down and warned him that "laughing while driving a car can be an offence".
Women in Iran are protesting laws that require them to wear full hijab while driving by filming themselves laughing as they throw off the "visible symbol of oppression".
