In article >,
Sqwertz > wrote:

> "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.

Are you thinking about kids in school? If they are old enough to go to
school, aren't they old enough to walk a little distance to the store?
I've done that dance in the parking lot with a baby in the stroller and
another kid not old enough to know any better. It's a challenge.
Having a parking spot closer to the store would have helped. When my
kids got older, I parked in the back of the parking lot. You should
have heard the whines!

> And for some reason, even the parents with children don't park
> there. Weird.

Does your mother park there? Maybe parents with older children are
smart enough to figure out that they don't need those spots, but smart
enough to remember just a few years back when they did, and so they
leave those spots for those who really need them.

--
Dan Abel
Petaluma, California USA