Bobble This

There is a bobblehead on Stanley's car's dashboard. He doesn't remember who gave it to them and when they gave it, but it has already outlasted two cars. It is of an old man with a long white beard and a misshapen cane that looks like a weathered tree branch. Over the years, the spring coil that keeps his bald head attached to its body has developed an interesting quality that causes the bobblehead to gyrate side to side no matter how you pat, flick, or bobble the bobblehead.

Stanley uses his bobblehead as a stress reliever, releasing bouts of road rage with a tap of the old man's head. His head would sway side to side, as if admonishing him for his lack of self-control. Being cut off is no big deal, the bobblehead is saying. Being stuck in bumper-to-bumper traffic is okay. You will get there soon enough; the old man dispenses his wisdom.