My infinite loop
Let’s forget about the road trip for a second and fast forward to the evening of August 14. I just want to say that avocados are tasty and make good things happen even just as one buys them.
As I was driving to Palo Alto, Marie called to ask me to buy avocados, so I stopped at Mollie Stone’s on California Avenue (an old playground of mine, or at least where my English was born). I gotta say it took me a while: who’d have thought that even in California avocados would get to the shelf marble-tough?
When I got to the check-out counter, I had a vision: black turtleneck, jeans, New Balance shoes. Add that to the fact that I was in Palo Alto, and you get only one possible solution: Steve Jobs. A thinner, concentrated version of my favorite tech guru.
The iPhone in my pocket and the MacBook Air in my backpack started screaming, “Daddy!” (to him) and, “Don’t you dare not talk to him” (to me), so I went to stand in line behind him and the person he was with.