"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