Religion
The Shabbes Driver
Pop didn't always drive on Saturday. When Pop would want to go downtown on a Saturday, he would leave the house on foot. A block or two from the house, Lou (or Mitch or Pearl) would pick him up in the car and drive him downtown. On the return, Lou (or Mitch or Pearl) would drive him back, and drop him off a block from the house. This way Pop would be seen walking from and to his house; he would not have been seen riding in an automobile by the neighbors on shabbes. Pop was concerned about what the neighbors would say. He didn't want them to see him driving the "machine" on shabbes. He was a kosher butcher, after all. People expected a certain level of behavior of a kosher butcher, he believed, or said. Pop used a designated shabbes driver, one of his children. After Pearl left Rochester there was no one else in the house with a driver's license, so Pop had to drive himself on shabbes.
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