The Story of Maria Elena and the VW Bug
Today, Mom and I met children playing in fountain at Crown Center a delightful woman named Maria Elena. She and her daughter shared their table with us for a bit at Irish Fest. Here is one of the stories Maria Elena told us:
Years ago, when she was young, she lived in the old west end of Kansas City. One day, she went out to her car to go to the store.
Maria Elena's big car was sandwiched in between two VW bugs. The bugs had parked so close to her car that she was barely able to get out without touching them. She did actually touch one just slightly.
Well, after some tight maneuvering, Maria Elena extricated her car from its' parking spot and started off to the store.
As she was turning the corner, she noticed that someone was following her. It looked like two men were in the car and they were following her quite closely. Maria Elena was a little worried. She began making turns on every corner in an effort to lose the men in the car behind her but they stuck tight no matter which street she went down. Eventually, she ended up at a stop light on Broadway where she had the opportunity to get a closer look at the men in the car behind her. But there was no one in the car!
She got out to take a closer look at this car with no driver. When she was trying to wiggle out of the parking space, she had hooked the bumper of the VW behind her and had been unknowingly towing the little VW all around the neighborhood! Hah!
Now what would she do with that car? Well, she would have to take it back to the parking space in front of her house. So, she got back in her big car and turned right. But guess what happened? The bumper unhooked and the VW stayed at the light!
Oh no! Now what would she do? Well, Maria Elena was pretty shook up after wiggling her car out from between the two VW's and then the harrowing ordeal of thinking she was being followed so she went home and told her family what had happened.
Now, someone else called the owner of the stranded VW and asked him why his car was over on Broadway. He said 'it's not, it's right in front of my house.' Ha, but it wasn't in front of his house! So, he thought someone stole his car and left it over on Broadway. Maria Elena and her family never told the neighbor how her car had got stuck to his bumper and she was the one to tow his VW over to Broadway. So, go ahead and have a good laugh but don't tell her old neighbor!
