MAKING ADJUSTMENTS

Arts. We pre-paid the tickets and a parking spot assigned to Melody Towers, across from the theater.

When we arrived to find a spot to park, there were no signs indicating which floor to go to avoid problems with the spots reserved for the tenants. An assistant told us we had to go to the valet parking line.

Knight Parking Systems, managing the parking, could not control the mess they created by forcing everyone to get valet service, instead of simply assigning a floor where one could park. After a long argument, we finally handed our car to a driver.

It is a shame that a venue like the Arsht Center cannot have a better-organized parking system for their patrons.

The story of Marie Antoinette saying “Let them eat cake,” when hearing of the sorrows and miseries of the poor, is considered to be apocryphal.

On the other hand, Donald Trump’s declaration, “They’ll make adjustments, they always do,” when describing the hardships of tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of his citizens, the ones he claims he’s protecting, suffering as a result of the government shut down, and occasioned by his completely insensitive obstinacy, is no fiction.

Mugabe in Zimbabwe, Chavez and Maduro in Venezuela, Trump in the U.S. That so many can ALEXANDRA VILLOCH PUBLISHER

– Max Blaya, Miami

JOHN S. KNIGHT (1894-1981)

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