To me it’s not depressing. It’s a reminder that cars are just a pile of parts screwed together, a product to be enjoyed and used. It’s mortal and transient, just like everything. I’ll die someday, and so shall these expensive cars. Then everything we know will turn to dust, but that doesn’t really matter, because we…

I was reading it more as the fish was his hype-man. “Oh, now you done fucked up now! Earl is about to give you 8 legs of pain!”

You know who else wasn’t impressed? That fish behind the octopus.