The Peril of Disconnect

Why do we park on a driveway and drive on a parkway?

It’s an old joke. I do not know its origins, but it’s a point of humor that seems to get passed on to children in books of jokes/riddles/mildly humorous wisecracks.

There actually is a reason behind it, though!

I have never looked up the “park on a driveway” piece of the joke, but driving on a parkway is a fairly important bit of American transport…