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Over the weekend, Judge Murilee wrote a post for Jalopnik chronicling the penalties of the Yee-Haw It’s Texas LeMons. Of course, our haiku penalty made the photo-essay! For those who don’t know, when our second driver looped the car (this was before the first engine blew up), we got this penalty. Stevo and I had to compose a haiku poem (fortunately, we were already familiar with the form — in fact, at one point we’d contemplated doing the entire TARP North application for Nelson Ledges in haiku), then paint it on the back of the car. We wrote the draft out on the roof of the car to make it easier to paint rather than trying to compose on the fly. Check it out:

It’s kind of hard to make out, but here’s what it says:

Car loops many times/Driver error always, why?/We are dumbasses.

The funniest part of it was that after we had it painted on, Judge Jonny came by to check our work and said that the last line didn’t have 5 syllables, until we pointed out that “dumbasses” is 3 syllables. Then he slunk away and let us get back on track.

Misty Watercolored Memories of the Way We Were Author: Pat