

A great prophet once said, “It’s 0 to 60 in 3.5—Baby, you got the keys. Now shut up and drive.” Throughout the many ages of humanity, her truth has endured. Accompanying it is the collective ennui of millions of California drivers, looking for a little escape, feeling trapped and isolated under the crushing gridlock of a complex freeway system closing in around them. I wonder, then, if Kendall Jenner heard the great prophet’s words Wednesday afternoon, cruising around greater Los Angeles in her vintage Cadillac. After all, the same scripture also says: “I got class like a ‘57 Cadillac, and overdrive with a whole lot of boom in the back.”
Amid widespread closures and social distancing measures in Southern California, it’s easy to feel trapped, alone, restless. Especially with the great, big, sunny outdoors beckoning to you always, endless tracts of strip mall parking lots reflecting the ever-present brightness of the sun. Kendall Jenner, who took a cruise in her top-down Cadillac in a pair of medium-tiny sunglasses, had the right idea. Her look of apathy as she cruised through Calabasas even reminded me of high school, and driving down country roads after a big fight with my parents with the windows down in my Jeep, silently crying to a Rihanna song.