Recently, on my way to the Coral Gables Cinema, as I drove north, everything went south. On the ramp onward and upward toward a parking place so wisely and generously offered by City of Coral Gables Parking Department for highmileage vehicles (like my Prius), I was dismayed because none of the spaces were filled with high-mileage vehicles, only with late model Mercedes and Audis. Normally, I would ignore the indignity, but I found myself in times of trouble because this was hardly the first time I have been misled by the false promise of preferred/deserved parking.
I wondered why Coral Gables bothers to offer these spaces and how this can be seen as a gesture of progressiveness if no one ever enforces illegal parking. I mean, when they repaired the Venetian Pool, they followed through with water, didn’t they?
Then I went next door to the wonderful Coral Gables Art Cinema to see Wild Tales and thought how lucky the drivers of those cars selfishly hogging those spaces were not to have been parts of the plot.
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