Carl F. Thelin

PARK AND SLIDE

A reader of the Road Warrior column in the Albuquerque Journal recently complained about drivers parking too close to her residential intersection, blocking views. Back in the 1950s, when my younger brother had cars like the MG-TC and the Porsche 356, State Farm Insurance kicked him out. He lived in an apartment area where he parked at the curb with the back of the car close to the street corner. He was in Milwaukee where the temperature dropped below freezing in December. Streets stayed frozen until maybe March — covering side roads with permanent ice. Scrape-and-run bad guys sideswiped his cars three times one winter late at night. State Farm canceled his insurance because he had a bad habit of parking in the wrong place, they said.