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...cities like Kuala Lumpur and Hong Kong and Shanghai have become Atlanta. Eager to call attention to their commercial muscle, they all have tallest-building projects. They're like a family that moves into a fancy neighborhood for the first time and feels the need to display in its driveway the most expensive luxury sedan on the block...
...what my parents--or anyone else's--did for a living. As far as I could tell, all grownups had mysterious jobs that involved drinking lots of coffee and arguing about Richard Nixon. My parents didn't seem to have career aspirations that reached beyond the end of our driveway, and if they had job-related stress, they kept it (like sex) private. Now families are expected to be much more intimate, and while that has happily resulted in a lot of hugs, "I love yous" and full attendance at soccer games, unfortunately we parents also insist on sharing...
...Prestige--the big circular driveway with the BMW parked in front says...
...most people. That's why the adult children of elderly drivers will usually not intervene--even when Mom or Dad is a road menace. Members of one Detroit family tried to persuade the grandfather, 96, to sell his Cadillac because he kept crashing into a tree next to the driveway. Instead he chopped down the offending object...
...that he built for me a couple of months after our first meeting, and after I'd spent half a dozen Sundays driving with him in the prototype through the streets of Springfield, testing out his technology and my reflexes. The noble beast, now retired, still stands in my driveway...