impounding on the door

Everyone should have to go to a big city impound lot once. Everyone. Even if it's just for a glance at the operation.

Mine came last night. It's an old story: friend gets DUI (or DWI or OMVI, whatever law enforcement goes with today), friend needs two other friends to help her remove her car from impound: one to driver her car home, and one to drive everyone there. I played the role of the second driver.

But there was one problem - the lot closes at 8. My friend called at 7:15. A front drive to one house, then a lesson in swerving and avoiding hazard-drivers on the interstate, and we arrived

Cross the Scioto and a little park set back the trees for the fishermen, then it's just a rough sea of automobiles.

We pulled in five minutes before closing. Luckily, the police stick to their closing time. They didn't pull the "bank on a weekday" routine and shut down 10-15 minutes before the time on the door.

Just the same, I'd rather not visit the little barbwired auto lot for a while.