Forty-Eight, And The Car Door Is A Weapon

The steering wheel must be held with two fingertips at the bottom for the first four minutes. The metal of the seatbelt buckle should not be touched at all. Everyone here knows this. Everyone here has learned it the same way, once, and never again.

By nine in the evening there are three distinct groups doing laps: the fast walkers on the ground floor, the families on the first, and four men in their seventies who have been completing the same circuit at the same pace since roughly 2011 and who nod at everyone.