FoodBanter.com - View Single Post - Priority Parking at the Grocer (was: Express Checkout)

blake murphy[_2_]

On Mon, 30 Mar 2009 23:28:23 -0400, T wrote:

> In article >,
> ost says...
>>
>> "Jean B." > wrote:
>>
>>> And her excuse: "I have
>>> children in the car!" I was thinking of the wonderful
>>> example she set for those children....
>>
>> And going even farther away from the OP:
>>
>> Our grocery chain has not only handicap parking spots (required by
>> law, of course), but about 8 spaces near the front of the store for
>> "Customers With Children".
>>
>> Those spaces should be a free for all, IMO. It's discriminatory,
>> for one. OTOH, it's nice to have right at th thoroughfare to the
>> store so that kids can open up their cars doors and bolt right into
>> traffic before their parents can walk around to the other side of
>> thew store to grab their hands.
>>
>> Second of all, my mother has children. What's to keep her from
>> parking there? They may be 40+ years old and live in other states,
>> but she is a customer with children.
>>
>> Third: It's a waste of 8 perfectly prime parking spaces weekdays
>> from 8AM to 3PM.
>>
>> And for some reason, even the parents with children don't park
>> there. Weird.
>>
>> -sw
>
> Typical of the precious snowflake argument I hear in marriage equality
> hearings and forums.
>
> I see it as Darwinian evolution.

i guess it is odd that we haven't heard from anyone who crawls ten miles
through the snow to get to the grocery store.

your pal,
grampa