A follow up of my visit to Jerry Seiner Kia yesterday (and meeting my salesman after c. four years
). The reason I was there wasn't merely to take a gander at two more Stingers, but to settle a nagging question: am I literally "seeing things"?
This really came to my attention c. five years ago, but I won't burden you with older details of this disturbing and "interesting psychological phenomenon" (it has a name, which was given to me today, and I've already spaced that off, heh).
Monday, when I saw these two Stingers parked side by side, the second thing that I noticed was that they both had "Scorpion" spoilers: clearly the White is a limited Scorpion Edition: but there are no Blue Scorpions, so, I focused on the Micro Blue phenomenon: I even went inside and asked a salesman about the Blue "Scorpion" spoiler, and he confirmed that it had to be an aftermarket addition: he didn't contradict my pointing out that it was Blue and a "Scorpion" spoiler (that part remains odd: if I heard someone describing a spoiler by the wrong color and design I would point out the error at once: but maybe he was nearsighted or just humoring me). I went out to get a pic or two, but as I was walking toward the cars, my car came back with the tech driving it and I didn't get the pics. (Wish I had: none of this would have happened, because the pic of the Blue would have disabused my fooled eyes.)
Back in February when I went down to Kingman AZ to drive along with the People's Convoy, I passed by this temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints being built in Orem alongside I-15. The weather was atrocious but I had a long, clear view of the building and focused especially on the "Angel Moroni" which I saw tipping the steeple. Three days later, on my return home, I repassed the same spot and WTH!?, the statue of Moroni with his trumpet was GONE. I did so many double, triple, quadruple takes until it was out of sight in my rearview mirror that I almost gave myself whiplash: but the statue had been "replaced" with a lightning rod.
So, my "mission" this afternoon, since I was out to settle my Monday hallucination, included a drive down to the building site to ask if the statue of Moroni had ever been put up temporarily then taken down for some reason. As I walked closer to the temple I became more certain that no statue was going up there ever. I found the building construction supervisor and asked my question, "Has there ever been a statue of the Angel Moroni up there?" To which he replied in the negative, and added further: "Most modern temples do not have an Angel Moroni on them; none being built along the Wasatch Front will have them anymore."
So, hallucinating statues and now spoilers. From now on I am taking more pictures.
All the driving around was fun, naturally.
