Prince and/or The Artist Formerly Known as Prince (TAFKAP) now has got some competition all right.  There’s a budding “Little Red Corvette” remake right here in Midlothian, starring none other than Sam Macky.  Who else, pray tell? 

It all started out innocently enough at a Saturday morning multi-family yard sale last weekend where we browsed around, Sam looking for trains and stray pirates ships and me looking for a good book and anything else that popped out at me.  Kinda like the song, “It was Saturday morning (not night), I guess that makes it all right.”  Sure does, I’ve been up since 6 anyway! “And u say what have u got 2 lose?”  Not much, maybe a dollar or two and plenty o’ time until nap!

Well, there wasn’t much there of interest, so we sauntered around, finally going down the driveway to the last house in the cul-de-sac.  As I closed in on some really cute fish placemats, Sam’s radar zeroed in on one little red corvette.  It was truly “little,” a tot-sized by Power Wheels, not your usual Chevy model.  “Baby, you got to slow down.”  But there was no slowing him down.  He hopped right into that buggy faster than he’d run to a shipwrecked pirate ship, hypothetically speaking of course.  He moving fast anyway.

He was having a good ole time in there, and the man offered it to me for $60 as a twenty year old collectors item, which I’m sure it was.  Then he threw out $20 so he wouldn’t have the hassle of selling it on Ebay.  I just wasn’t into it - it would need need new batteries, a tune-up if you will, etc.  Prince was so right when he said, “U need a battery (not a ‘love’) that’s gonna last.”  So after we had been there a while, the guy said, “He looks so good in it it!  How about $10?”  Sold! 

“Baby, you’re much too fast.”  The thing was supposed to go 5-6 MPH.  Oh my!  Well, at least it would help him escape the paparazzi once the remake climbs up Casey Kasem’s American Top 40.  (Is he still on the air?  Is he still alive even?  Well, according to my extensive “research” on Wikipedia, it is going strong with Ryan Seacrest as the top dog these days.)

After loading the car in the trunk, then came the hard part.  How would I break it to Daddy Mac that his son owned a speedy Corvette and he still didn’t?  Instead of “When Doves Cry,” it was going to be more like “When Daddies Cry.”  Thankfully he took it like a man, although he made a point to go get some batteries and see how fast it could move.  I was already envisioning his knees smashed up against the plastic dashboard.  Unfortunately since the car is so old, they don’t make that kind anymore.  So much for Prince’s battery thats “gonna last.”  I guess we could look on Ebay.  I’ll put it on the List, but don’t hold your breath. 

There is lots of rain out there these days, but no signs of any purple rain—not yet anyway.  All he needs now is a raspberry beret.  You know, “the kind u find in a second hand store” or perhaps a yard sale…  Let’s go crazy!

LibbY