Iris Held On to Her Paid-Off Title When Her Father Threatened to Call the Police

That car of yours is getting way too old to be sitting in front of my house.

It drags down the look of the whole street.”

“The Toyota is a 2017, Dad,” I said, keeping my tone even.

“It has sixty-eight thousand miles, full service records, and it gets thirty-four miles to the gallon.”

“Numbers don’t make up for presentation,” Arthur said, raising his voice into the loud, unchallengeable tone he used on junior county building contractors.

“A family with standards shows a united front to the neighborhood.