We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember ThinAirDesigns
saying something like:

@Grimly Curmudgeon

Light dawns. If you'd mentioned pusher prop at the start...

I have no idea how I could have mentioned it any sooner than the very
first sentence of my very first post on this thread -- which is what I
did.

No need to get sarky.
That's my job.

It might never have occurred to you that the post might be missing?