Driving Mr Deakin

Riding in the back of the Ferrari Lusso GTC4, James Deakin expected the worst. Instead, he was bowled over by “an unadulterated Ferrari experience for four”

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Wanna ride with me? I’m taking a Ferrari,” my friend Marc Soong asked as we were planning how to get to a mutual friend’s wedding in Batangas. “How is that even a question?” I snapped back before he could even let the last vowel roll off his tongue. He tried to explain, but I was already putting on my coat and sending him a Waze location. That was my first mistake.

I learnt a lot about context after that phone call. I learnt that without it, two identical sentences can have two profoundly different meanings. For example, hearing the words “Jesus loves you” can be very comforting and fulfilling when uttered in a church. But it can mean something entirely different when whispered in your ear in the showers of a Mexican prison. Get what I’m saying?

So, lesson number one: context. Because, had I just listened, I would have known he was going up with his wife Loralie and his father Wellington. Which meant I would be riding in the back seat. All. The. Way. To. Batangas. But no. I heard Ferrari, Batangas, Cavitex, smooth winding roads. Everyone wants to be James. Funny how we only really hear what we want to, huh? Blame it on social media.