Car talk

Twice in the space of four hours I saw a bumper sticker "i drive naked" -- once at Union and Cypress Streets in Kennett, the other time on a different car leaving Anson Nixon Park! What's going on? Will we soon have big-city journalists visiting and writing about a nascent trend starting in what they call "sleepy" Chester County?

I was also all set to grouse about the First World problem of sloppy parking in downtown Kennett -- as I drove through on July 9 one big black vehicle (with a trailer hitch, no less!) was jutting out well beyond the lines, reducing State Street to essentially one lane -- but when I drove through today, all the cars were as neatly lined up as a well-disciplined marching band. State Street actually looked like one of those idealized renderings that architects draw up of the parking lots at shopping centers or office buildings.