Pinsky buys a Mitsubishi
June 9, 2009
Pinsky calls and for once doesn’t want to talk about the goddamned weather in Mexico, where he’s been living for the past two years. I’d checked earlier. It was 31C in Cancun. He’s about 1.5 hours, by cab, south of there. “I bought a car,” he says. “A what?” “A car, a huge f—ing car, man.” Silence slips in as I consider the next question. I can ask the obvious question; what kind of car? Or I can ask the simple question. “What the hell for?” (As far as I can tell, Pinsky doesn’t need a car. He doesn’t travel far and he’s always drinking.) “The price was right and Inka loved it -- heated leather seats...the works. Inka was getting tired of hiring a cab to get groceries.” “Okay, okay, what kind of car is it?” “It’s a Japanese rig. Fully loaded. Mitsubishi. Beautiful. Inka’s out there right now watching a Bergman flick on the DVD player. She made popcorn.” “The car has a DVD player?” “Don’t they all?” Pinsky blurts. “No,” I say. “Well, this one does. Inka loves Bergman. She’s watching “The Silence”. She loves the goddamned midgets, the little people, you know?” “So was this purchase a new car?” “Pretty new. Not now though. Inka and I got home and went out and kicked the crap out of the door panels, roughed it up, so it doesn’t drive us – we drive it. We had to show it we didn’t give a shit about how it looked.” “Okay,” I say.
So Pinsky and Inka bought a new Endeavor. A Canadian ex-patriot drunkard living in Mexico driving a Japanese SUV complete with heated leather seats (in Mexico!!!) and a DVD player. Perfect.
3 Comments
1. mary had this to say: Jun 10, 2009 ~ 13:55 ~ #
that makes sense. pinsky always was a sucker for foreign-made cars, despite what his father taught him.
2. thomas had this to say: Jun 10, 2009 ~ 15:59 ~ #
Pinsky called at 3AM, drunk beyond compare. All he would say is: “The JAPANESE!!!!! The JAPANESE!!!!! The JAPANESE!!!!!!” “What’s going on? Are you okay? Are you having some sort of stroke, or seizure?" “The JAPANESE!!!” “Okay, look, you can stop saying that. I don’t know what it means and I don’t care. Do you have any idea what time it is?” Pinsky: “The JAPANESE!!!” “Okay, I’m going to hang up now. Go to bed you freakin’ idiot!” Pinsky: “The JAPANESE!!!” I have no idea what it means. Probably some oblique reference to his new car, truck, SUV, whatever…Frankly, I’m unplugging the phone tonight, and turning off the cell phone. He can go to hell. I had to work this morning.
3. mary had this to say: Jun 10, 2009 ~ 20:15 ~ #
i wouldn’t unplug the phone if i were you. the last time pinsky started screaming like that he wound up in thailand drinking a bottle of rum with his leg wrapped around his neck, saying “i am fucking awesome!” later he ran into Sting who told him about the art of tantric and you know what happened after that…