Once we boarded, we were parked on the tarmac for far too long.
We were parked in front of a shop in a Karachi market.
We were parked around the corner from my apartment on the street where Carroll Gardens falls off the map.
We were parked on the bank of a wide river with small wooden platforms extending over the water's edge, where you could order lunch from local fishmongers.
WE were sitting in total darkness in the back of an Isuzu truck, trying to forget we were parked near the edge of a cliff.
It was a cold day in January, and we were parked in the middle of a mock highway set on the campus of Pennsylvania State University in State College.
My husband took to sitting in the driver's seat with his elbow out, even while we were parked, enjoying the unaccustomed sensation of being admired.
As we left to go on patrol, we had just driven out of the car park when a mortar and rocket hit just the other side of the gate where we were parked.
We were parked at the mountain overlook just outside town.
