On Mar 29, 6:20*pm, 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.
>
> And for some reason, even the parents with children don't park
> there. *Weird.
>
> -sw

That practice would pretty much send me running to their competition.
There are plenty of folks around who aren't impaired enough to warrant
a disabled license plate, but would sure appreciate close in
parking...From my own experience I can tell you when you're recovering
from an illness, injury, or surgery, or just plain old, the required
walk to the far reaches of a market for a quart of milk can feel like
the Bataan Death March...The heck with the able bodied young Mommy
crowd getting preferential parking.

NancyT