I said I would tell “The Thing Over The Car” today because I missed Halloween and so I shall.

I first heard it from my mom on my back porch, she was a Scotch or two in and ready to get spooky.

We have a lovely cousin I will call Patty. She’s about my mom’s age, famously had her own very Catholic mom walk in on her asleep in bed with a guy in her twenties and then...not marry him. Legend.

Patty has a brother, we’ll call him Michael. Michael calls Patty the other day, they engage in chitchat for a while. Then Michael says, “Patty, do you remember driving out to that house party with me in 1972?”

Patty says “oh, my God, there was a thing above the car.”

Michael asks her what she remembers about that night.

“We took two cars. There were a lot of us, crammed on the bench seats. I was in your car, you were driving. Then there was a thing above the car.”