This is the Moth Radio Hour.
I'm your host, Jennifer Hickson.
Have you ever heard the advice that if you want to have an important conversation, have it in the car?
There's no place to go at 55 miles an hour, so it's a pretty strong strategy for getting your talking points heard.
And the car is an intimate space.
The content of the conversation will hit targeted ears only.
It was completely unplanned, but during one car ride,
I explained the very basic elements of how babies are made to my children.
My son was silent for a moment and then asked, but how do they talk the men into doing that?
I had to add a couple extra miles onto that trip.
In this hour, stories of the driven, both literally and figuratively.
In this first story, both, a beloved car and very fierce determination.
Juliet Holmes' story begins in the 1940s when she was still a little girl.
Juliet told me, growing up in the segregated South, many places
that were called public were actually restricted for black people.
It wasn't unusual for her family to observe the world from the safety of their car.
At the Williamsburg Hall of Music in Brooklyn, where WNYC is a media partner of The Moth, here's Juliet Holmes.
Well, I guess you all can tell that I had two men walk me on the stage.
In other words, ladies, you are never too old to have two men.
Not one, but two.