Cars are objects. Streets are places. But in my Kansas hometown, drivers forget these simple facts.

Cars are objects. Streets are places. But in my Kansas hometown, drivers forget these simple facts.

Our opinion editor contemplates the pestiferous inconvenience of a vehicle stopped in his way. He is seen here next to a framed copy of the First Amendment on Jan. 12, 2026, in the Kansas Reflector office in Topeka. (Photo by Sherman Smith/Kansas Reflector)Cars are objects. That means they exist in the same physical space as people and dogs and cats and duck-billed platypuses. That means they exist alongside other cars and trucks and mopeds and …