Apparently he was too young to have ever driven a car with flakey single system brakes. I used the emergency brake several times, and it was not for parking. it was a last ditch attempt to get the blooming thing stopped! When we drove, you of the first things you learned was that anything could happen anytime, and most likely whenever you least expected it to. Now, a complete brake failure is an almost impossible thing to happen, but in our days, it was not unusual thing at all. Ane the emergency brake system was exactly that! Never used it for parking, to do that, you just turned the wheels toward the curb, or put the nose against a tree! That was a parking brake. Some of the smarter folks carried wheel chocks.
