The Mexican asked her what she was doing in New Mexico.

It turns out to be interesting.  I gather that the blonde woman had left her husband and kids in Colorado Springs not long ago. She makes comments on wanting to be a regular housewife, cook and have a garden.  A few months ago, she said, she’d left her husband and kids gone to San Diego.  That is, she just left.  Once she got to San Diego she bought a new car, a used white Cadillac Eldorado. (I wonder if she knows El Dorado is twenty miles to the south and east of Santa Fe.) I hear her purse unclasp and plastic things shake against themselves.  She says, here, look at this.  She took a picture of it on her cell phone. In the picture the car shines all Turtle Wax and reflected light. To the photo there’s a caption that reads, “Don’t Worry Be Happy”. She shows it to the Mexican.  The young pregnant girl is asleep.  She doesn’t get to see in the photo’s background the ocean.  There are a few seagulls like wheeling crescents above the car above the ocean circling.  It’s a nice looking car.  Well, the very next day, after she snapped the photo, she says, I got a DWI and wrecked the car all in the process.  The blonde woman was fine.  But her car was wrecked.  Now she’s on a bus back to Colorado Springs and her.  That explains it all.