To the editor:

To the people who leave their cars running in the fire lane / no-park zone energy near St. Paris Shoppers on W. Main Street “just for a sec”: the sec is never a sec, and the rest of us can see you from Springfield Street.

You are not slick. You are not busy in a special way. You are blocking the kind of emergency that would be very funny if it happened to you and very sad if it happened to me.

Park in a space. Walk the 11 extra steps past the Sunoco. Grow.

Sincerely,

Someone with a cart and a dream