“I truly believe that when men and women think about parking, their mental capacity reverts to the reptilian cortex of the brain,” he says. “How to get food, ritual display, territorial dominance—all these things are part of parking, and we’ve assigned it to the most primitive part of the brain that makes snap fight-or-flight decisions. Our mental capacities just bottom out when we talk about parking.”
This is a fascinating article about the vagaries of parking, complete with psychological analysis of human parking behavior, historical context and some colorful characters that remind me of the Five Families.
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