Justifiable paranoia?

Elena Tucker
4 min readSep 1, 2021

Sometimes I like to think like a criminal, so I do not wind up being a victim.

I like to park my car for easy get-aways, always backing into the space or driving through to the other side of double parking space, so that when I leave, I’m driving forward — not backing out first. It requires a little more planning, and, at times, more patience. Sometimes I have to walk more from my car to events or places, but my mind is more…

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Elena Tucker

Writer and storyteller, immigrant, wife, mom, knitter, collector of jokes, lover of cheap, sweet wine.