Just pulled into the parking garage a few minutes ago, my commute from Horn Lake done from the day. This car was parked next to me.
You can go through a Downtown parking garage and tell who both lives and works here. Cars covered in dust, obviously not having been moved for weeks. Filthy as it is, it makes me happy to see a car like this, because the owner is “living the dream.”
I “lived the dream” for a year myself when I worked at the Falls Building, half a block from where I live at Number 10. With my friends, my favorite hangouts, and ample grocery shopping a short walk away, I had little need to drive a car. Once, on a 10-minute break from work, I went over to the parking garage, having not seen my car for four weeks. I was amazed that 1) the garage hadn’t thought it was an abandoned car and towed it; and 2) it started. I moved it to another space and then didn’t drive it out of the garage for another week. When I drove it again, it was one of the few times in my life when I actually paid for a car wash.
I hope to see an increasing number of dirty cars in my parking garage in the months and years to come.
Drive home was a good one, as I listened to Chris Vernon interview Grizzlies GM Chris Wallace. Verno tried to get Wallace to admit that Hasheem Thabeet was the “booby prize” in the trade to Houston. Good stuff.