Think of it like a one way road. So you're driving and the road suddenly splits into two, one going east and one going west. But instead of you only going in one direction, you get split in two and each of you goes in a different direction. You don't realize it happened. One of you could get in a wreck, and the other wouldn't know. They're heading west. And their car is a single passenger only because they are fresh out of fucks to give about anyone but themselves.
Way, WAY back on the original one way road, in his old timey car, is Howard. And instead of him traveling along normally and updating like the rest of us peons? Let's just say he hit a physics pothole and god picked up him and his old timey car, and just plopped it on the road heading east, where we all are now. So he skipped all of that road on the way here, that the rest of us drove on. And we're on the shittier road that has overpasses almost falling apart and that needs a new layer of asphalt. I like to think Howard's car somehow ended up on a train track and the car won't budge after god drop kicked it there, but Howard had the sense to get out of the car before the train hit. And here he is now, hitching a ride. And if it's some burly truck-driver, he's probably going to wave them by and wait for a model or an actress.
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...which brings us to NOPE SURE AS HELL NOT DEALING WELL. But I've been through a lot of weird shit. I'll be ok.