I encountered an interesting Regionite at a conference I attended last week.  At first, he seemed surprised that I neither recognized him or his name.  He explained that he chauffeured the “keynote” speaker to the event.  He then directed my attention out the room window to his vehicle which was parked curbside adjacent to the path to the front door of the building.  He’d propped the hood open – like they do at car shows.  You couldn’t miss it - which apparently was the desired effect.

He explained that his vehicle was entirely electric.  He explained that his investment in the vehicle was inspired by a movie he saw.  I sensed he was disappointed that I’d neither heard of, nor seen the movie.  I’m supposed to be a champion for “state-of-the-art” technology but in this case I was shamefully unenlightened.