Dolomitgrau: The Car That Cost Me a Million Euros

I have made expensive mistakes. With my first salary, I bought an Adobe Creative Suite Professional license for 1.500 € and a Maya Complete license for 5.500 €, because I was certain I would become a 3D artist. I did not. Then I upgraded Creative Suite twice for another 1.800 €, Maya once for 2.500 €, and bought Maya training books for maybe 300 €. Eleven thousand euros for a career that never happened. That still wasn’t my most expensive mistake. My most expensive mistake was a car. The UFO on the Other Side of the Road Somewhere in 2000 or 2001, I was sitting in the back of the family car, driving into the city to go shopping, when something passed us on the opposite lane that I had never seen before. Round lines, steel grey, low. It looked like a prop from a science fiction film. There were no phone cameras in 2001, so all I had was a memory and a shape. My father had seen it too, and I pestered him for weeks until he went through the group’s model catalog at work — he was at…