My mom’s classic car was called the ‘Museum Piece’

By Bruce Boyer True story: When my mom passed away many years ago, we sold her car. She rarely drove the car, not because she couldn’t, but she thought it was “too good to use.” (This is an exact quote.). When we sold it, the car was 30 years old but only had 52,600 miles on it. The family joke was, there wasn’t much gas in the tank because of evaporation, not because the car was used very much. We affectionately called the car, the “Museum Piece.”  The Bible tells of the story called “The Parable of the Talents.” (Matthew 25:14-30). In the story, a man going on a journey entrusted his property to three servants. The master gave five talents to one man, two to another, and one talent to the third. (A talent is a unit of currency, often considered to be silver in biblical times.) The servant who received only one talent dug a hole and hid it in the ground, doing nothing with it, while the others invested it to achieve growth. When the master returned, the man who hid it in the ground had no gain from the opportunity. He only had the original talent...