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| Solitary London, ON August 2023 This photo originally shared on Instagram |
I always imagined the friendly folks who took our money and watched over our cars were made of tougher stuff than the rest of us, and could tell us stories about all they’d seen - if only we stuck around to listen.
Except the gauzy imaginings of a child often fail to hold up amid the cold light of adulthood. The folks maybe weren’t so friendly after all. They sure didn’t look after our cars with great care. And storytime in a parking lot was never an actual thing.
Which is why at 10:40 on a Sunday night walk with our daughter, I found myself face-to-face with one of the few remaining such structures in our town, and I was immediately transported back to those gauzy moments in the back seat when my imagination was infinitely more fun than the cold reality playing out on the other side of the car window.
Automation has taken over today’s parking lots, and if the hut remains, it’s typically boarded up and covered with graffiti. This one, though, is a keeper, a perfectly preserved time capsule of an age that no longer exists. If it ever truly existed at all.
I couldn’t walk past it without at least pausing to reflect on what it might have meant long ago to some child sitting in the back seat of the car. I hope their thoughts were gauzy, too.
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