Are you thinking what she’s thinking?

The old joke about country music is that if you play a song backwards, you get your job back, your wife comes home and your lover never leaves. So many country songs are about farewells and leaving, about life seen through the rear-view mirror. The husband who wants to leave with Jolene. Ruby who is taking her love to town and hank, who is still so lonesome he could cry. Now, with the rise of self-drive vehicles in America, a cowboy friend has pointed out that surely it’s only a matter of time before someone writes a country song about a guy’s truck leaving him. And then there will be tears like you have never seen before, as Patsy Cline almost sang. I just want elon Musk to think about that, for a country minute.