Working the Streets of Los Angeles

Have you ever received a parking ticket? How did you feel about it? Angry? Frustrated? Did you blame yourself for making a mistake, or did you blame that terrible "meter maid"?

This book is the story of an enforcement officer (meter maid) in the city of Los Angeles. You will watch her career grow and change as she grows and changes along with it. You will learn that parking enforcement officers, or meter maids, are people too and perhaps not as bad as the public presumes them to be.

Kaye Beechum is a mother of four, grandmother of six, and great-grandmother of three. After eleven years of marriage, she became a single mother and began the struggle of balancing her career and motherhood. In 1984, she lost her youngest daughter as a result of a traffic accident. Several years after her retirement, she felt the need to share the story of her daughter's life, and she published her first book, Forever 19. Next, she decided to share the story of her unique career in Working the Streets of Los Angeles.

-- Kaye Beechum