I'm So Quotable, You Already Know

In the aftermath of the driving instructor death at Disney World, I got a couple of calls from major media. One of them decided to quote me extensively.

You can read the whole thing here but my favorite quote, and the one where I think I am at my most not-funny, is this:

Baruth said that most of the drivers he has instructed "have zero interest in being on the race track or learning track craft — they just want to drive a Lamborghini. The dirty secret of these things is that almost all the customers would rather be renting the car for a day, but these track experiences are much cheaper." (The Exotic Driving Experience charges $399 for six laps in the Lamborghini, which sells for $220,000.)

"If somebody said, 'For 500 bucks you could hang out with the Scarlett Johansson and learn how to play chess,' I'm not going to do it to learn how to play chess. That's apparently what I’m forced to do to hang out with Scarlett."

For the record, I came up with that while waiting in line at the Franklin County Title Office.

Also for the record, my sympathies to both the instructor, who was basically killed by his student, and the student, who was in a situation for which he was absolutely unprepared. It's a hard thing to be responsible for the death or serious injury of someone else. Not something you let go of in a hurry. So I hope Mr. Watson eventually finds the peace that some of us cannot.