My Neighbor Sealed My Driveway with Concrete Because ‘Women Shouldn’t Drive’ – Five Minutes Later, I Wiped the Smile off His Face

Everyone except a small woman in a navy cardigan standing behind him, holding a paper plate of potato salad, her mouth pressed into a line of someone who had run out of patience.

Patricia. His mother.

Later, by the drinks table, she found me. Patricia slipped a folded scrap of paper into my palm like a spy in an old movie.

“Carol, honey. If he ever crosses continue reading …