Thirty years on the streets of Los Angeles — and a lifetime of stories worth telling.
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Have you ever received a parking ticket? Angry? Frustrated? Did you blame yourself — or that terrible "meter maid"? This is the story of an enforcement officer in the city of Los Angeles. Watch her career grow and change as she grows and changes along with it — and learn that meter maids are people too, perhaps not as bad as the public presumes.
Have you ever lost a loved one? Perhaps a child? This book tells how one mother dealt with the pain and loss of a beautiful nineteen-year-old daughter, Cheryl Jean, who died as the result of a tragic accident. Love and faith helped the family cope with the emptiness and sadness.
Kaye Sandra Graham arrives in the summer of 1937 and grows up in the shadow of World War II.
Her mother remarries; her new stepfather adopts her. The family follows their Master Sergeant from coast to coast — and on to Japan.
At nineteen, a long-distance telephone operator for AT&T. Then California, marriage to George Beechum, and four children.
Hired in July as a Parking Control Checker after a grueling process. The names thrown at her were not kind. Her skin got thick; her career got long.
Thirty years after writing her first ticket, she retires at the top — then trains cities, counties, and universities across the country through her firm, KSB Services.
A lifelong dream fulfilled: her first book — a tribute to her youngest daughter — is published and wins a literary award.
The career that started it all, finally on the page. And she is not done yet.
Meter maids are people too — perhaps not as bad as the public presumes them to be.— Working the Streets of Los Angeles
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