So it has been about a month and I had started to get a little, well, anxious is not the word, troubled is not the word, but perhaps unsettled about the thing. I did not doubt the honesty of anyone but I well know from personal experience that government paperwork in the region can be a real challenge and sometimes things simply don't happen and can't happen for some reason nobody thought of in advance. This was exacerbated by the periodic unclear messages about where the truck was and what was happening with it. I started to see the humor in it. I had paid with no paperwork because I know the guy and needed to move very fast to snag the thing, but where was the truck and what was it's status?
This reminded me of
Schrödinger's Cat, the classic thought experiment where according to quantum mechanics the cat in a sealed box is neither dead nor alive until an observer observes it.
Nobody I knew has actually seen this truck in person. Does it exist? How do I know it exists? Is it from Yemen? Is it from Saudi Arabia? We are basically operating on the word of the seller on this. But the guy has performed in the past, I am told, so I really had no reason to fear. Besides, I actually paid for it using a virtual asset--that does not technically exist. So it is quite appropriate that the truck was existing in an indeterminate state, like the cat.
I personally liked thinking about the truck using the Copenhagen interpretation (I have Scandanavian roots) wherein the truck simultaneously exists and does not exist at the same time. And I've been waiting for the wave function to collapse and reality to resolve and answer the question of the existence or non-existence of the truck.
I started thinking about what a phantom 105 might look like. Turned out that the AI art generators I tried were not very good at interpreting the phrase " Schrödinger's Land Cruiser" or ghost Land Cruiser, but the images were fun:
I also liked "toyota land cruiser in a box with a bomb and a random number generator"
Today it looks like the wave function is collapsing towards the possibility that the truck exists. I am seeing paperwork with my name on it and at least a version of the VIN:
So I am taking out vehicle insurance on the basis that the truck actually exists. The truck may show tomorrow. Really looking forward to seeing if it exists!
I was trying to figure out if the note on the VIN plate A04B means it has a Limited Slip Differential (which I think Mr. Blue had--but the Ancient Swede is not sure wether the diff on the bench we looked at was from Mr. Blue the 105 or one of the 80s.) I was looking through the various thread on here when
@cruisermatt suggested I just jack it up and turn one wheel. Apparently if it has LSD both will turn the same way, and if not, then they will turn the opposite way, which makes sense if you think about it. In a curious way, Matt's suggestion has the effect of collapsing the waive function of uncertainty about the existing of LSD in the truck by direct observation.
Well, I suppose this should not really be a surprise. Everything is quantum mechanics when you look at it closely enough.
