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Ultimately, I grew bored just
staring at the boats, so I paid a couple of burly
Frenchmen to grab Roger, strap him into a parasail
harness, and drag him about the bay. They were quite
good at what they did, speeding along and many times
narrowly missing the other boats by mere inches. Roger's
screams of fright could be heard for miles. Even over the
Troma freaks' loudspeaker.
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After they'd had their fun,
the burly Frenchmen cut Roger loose. After he
plummeted to the water and floated limply to shore,
I pointed at him and cackled evilly. After I'd had
my fun, we continued along the beach until
we reached a pier.
That seemed like a good spot to
take some more pictures, and this time I took a
huge, almost 360 degree movie panorama. The beers
from lunch did not serve to steady my hands any
more than the last movie I'd taken and, in fact,
they may have contributed to my having to shoot
the movie twice. For the initial time I shot it, I
had done it without actually turning the camera on
first.
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We
forged ahead, out on the pier to its tip, marveling
at the yachts moored along it, which grew more and
more ornate the further we went. When we got to the
end, we spotted a rather odd-looking boat tooling
around in the water. Wait! That wasn't a boat!
It was some kind of water car! From the FUTURE!
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But the future was now and
there the magical boat-car
was, taunting us with it's mystic floatiness just
out of our reach. We stuck our thumbs out
to try to hitch a ride but due to some sort of
cultural error, that turned out to be a mistake,
as we were once again blasted with bellowed
French insults. Maybe this really was still
Nice.
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Later, we would happen upon a British
car magazine called "Evo" that had an article
about the strange car, which was known as an Aquada, and was manufactured by Andy Gibb of
the Beegees, entirely by hand.
The Aquada was probably
as expensive as many of the boats moored nearby,
retailing for 150,000 British pounds, which is
equivalent to about four million american dollars,
and, as we would later learn, the coincidental
price of dinner in an Indian restaurant in London.
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