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Parking Signs

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COMMENT 290147	2012-06-21 01:59 PM
Sounds illegal
COMMENT 290148	2012-06-21 02:00 PM
Well, I gonna go home on work on that tonight!
COMMENT 290149	2012-06-21 02:02 PM
If you have ever shopped at Whole Foods you know these signs mean nothing in reality. You'll see non-low emission vehicles (my SUV included) parked in the low emission spots all the time. Waste of time and money to even put them up to begin with as they are not enforceable. Handicap spots however are a different story.
COMMENT 290150	2012-06-21 02:04 PM
What's the fine for parking there? You have to babysit a small child for an evening?
COMMENT 290151	2012-06-21 02:04 PM
This is pretty standard for every store. I've never seen enforcement on these or the hybrid parking spaces at the store in my hometown.
COMMENT 290156	2012-06-21 02:12 PM
There is no fine because there is no law against it. At worst you might get a few nasty glares or a snippy comment if you park on it without a kid.
COMMENT 290162	2012-06-21 02:20 PM
My kids are grown, but yes fine!
COMMENT 290163	2012-06-21 02:22 PM
Are the kids still going to be permitted to run a mock in the store?
COMMENT 290166	2012-06-21 02:23 PM
Run a mock what? A mock trial? A mock draft?
AUNTIE S.	2012-06-21 02:28 PM
Are you kidding? If you have kids you get a reserved space?
COMMENT 290174	2012-06-21 02:42 PM
I wont shop there.
COMMENT 290175	2012-06-21 02:43 PM
What about dogs? We all know that dogs trump kids... right? Who's with me?
COMMENT 290177	2012-06-21 02:45 PM
Wow, another form of discrimination for us childless folks. Really?!?
COMMENT 290178P	2012-06-21 02:46 PM
Howz about a kid-free & stroller-free day at the stores. It's a store, NOT a playground !!!
COMMENT 290179	2012-06-21 02:46 PM
I guess I won't be shopping there if I'm to be treated as a second class customer. Children are a choice not a handicap, though some may disagree. Maybe I should buy a stroller and place a doll in it to qualify for the preferred parking spots. Sorry, VANILLA, more strollers for you to contend with.
SHAKEY	2012-06-21 02:48 PM
Looks Anal..
COMMENT 290187	2012-06-21 02:55 PM
It's a very family-friendly thing to do; I was so excited to see the parking spots, its difficult to handle groceries at times and a child and I have used the spaces several times all ready being a mother of twins! As for kids running amuck in there the answer is yes! they do and it surprises me that people dont teach their children the difference between a playground and a grocery store! I was shocked to see kids riding tricycles and scooters in the store; guess I know what I won't be letting my kids do!
COMMENT 290190	2012-06-21 02:59 PM
So a mother driving her 17 year old son can park there but a mother driving her 18 year old daughter can't?? Has this world gone completely insane? Treat everybody the same....you just lost a potential customer...good work!
COMMENT 290191	2012-06-21 03:01 PM
Where's the puppy? Hmm? I don't see no pErSon WiTH PupPie(S) sign. Hmm?
COMMENT 290187	2012-06-21 03:01 PM
Relax! There is plenty of parking 2 feet away for everyone!
COMMENT 290195	2012-06-21 03:10 PM
Instead, they should have put up a sign for parking for those over 65 only. For goodness sakes! Children (and their parents) can walk !!
COMMENT 290198	2012-06-21 03:15 PM
people who have kids get a tax credit and better parking? I'm going to hurry up and get knocked up!
COMMENT 290200P	2012-06-21 03:17 PM
166, 178, roflol! with special thanks to 166!!!!!!! People over 65 also can walk, or if they can't how did they get to the store. ...Oh, yikes, they drove!
COMMENT 290200P	2012-06-21 03:22 PM
190: Not to worry; it doesn't say how old the children have to be. There are people with very adult children, in age, that is. There are people in their 70's and more who refer to their 50-year-old offspring as their "children". You may bring both your son and your daughter; just don't let them see the picture on the sign.
COMMENT 290203	2012-06-21 03:27 PM
Get a life folks, who cares? Walking is good for you, I'll park at the end of the lot with my kids and walk. And my kids do NOT run around the store, I don't tolerate that kind of rudeness!
COMMENT 290215	2012-06-21 03:50 PM
The graphic on the sign is troubling. Are same sex couples with children welcome? What about people with arms?
COMMENT 290229	2012-06-21 04:21 PM
209, I agree and that's why it is very funny! 3 LOLs for edhat! And, 215, hadn't thought about same sex couples; I was worrying about the clothes; apparently men are naked from the mid-section down and the women wear cloaks?
COMMENT 290150	2012-06-21 04:23 PM
The only constraint appears to be that one of the adults has to wear a smock. And/or maybe have very short legs. Really, would people really shop/not shop based on an attempt to be family friendly? Does everyone know that other stores provide shopping carts that look like race cars for the kids? If I was worried about everyone being treated the same I wouldn't shop there either.
COMMENT 290243	2012-06-21 04:41 PM
We are missing the whole point here, these spaces are for the safety and convenience of young children who need to be taken out of the grocery cart and put in their car seats. Have you ever seen these moms parking the cart behind the car because there is no room between cars and trying to unload the child and put them in the car seat while the cart rolls across the lot loaded with groceries. Have a heart, you all *were* these kids once. Also the figures look unisex to me.....one with a long shirt and one with a short shirt.....round heads, no hair. I guess we see what we want to see:-)
COMMENT 290255	2012-06-21 05:19 PM
Silly.
COMMENT 290259	2012-06-21 05:37 PM
How about "Children with Children"? If you look around this particular grocery store, you'll see the bike parking, the nice parking for handicap and EV vehicles. I think this is a nice touch. Good for you Fresh and Easy.
ROGER DODGER	2012-06-21 05:55 PM
Funny Thread..
COMMENT 290280	2012-06-21 06:46 PM
5 after 4 o clock ? Get some pants dude.
COMMENT 290284	2012-06-21 06:52 PM
I used to have a righteous attitude: "how dare those people with children... [walk with a stroller in a store, bring them to a restaurant, etc]," and then I had a child -- late in life -- myself. It changed my perspective entirely. NOW I understand how difficult it is to do it. Grocery shopping and everyday errands are very different with a small child in tow. More fun in some ways, but so different. Give 'em a break, people.
COMMENT 290293	2012-06-21 07:08 PM
cool idea,i always see parents struggling with a cart full of grocerys and couple kids definitely makes it easier on them if they can park closer,however if they actually ticket people for taking that spot if they do not have kids thats not okay.
COMMENT 290300	2012-06-21 07:43 PM
Looks like a few villages are missing their idi....er, never mind.
COMMENT 290309	2012-06-21 08:35 PM
Can I park there if I'm pregnant? I have a child... it's just hiding out for another few months.
COMMENT 290313	2012-06-21 09:00 PM
I think some graffiti artist should alter the design on the asphalt to make the couple same-sex. Two women in dresses, or two men with jackets & ties.
COMMENT 290369	2012-06-22 09:18 AM
If you've ever been to an IKEA store, they have those signs there, too. I think they are a great idea!
COMMENT 290495	2012-06-22 01:51 PM
@187, and others defending this setting up different classes of shoppers. This is ridiculous and obnoxious. Especially so when so many of these store parking lots are crammed full of cars and one sometimes has to cruise around 2 or 3 times to find a space 150 feet removed from the store. I refuse to support such crap, and will not patronize stores where this is done.
COMMENT 290549P	2012-06-22 04:14 PM
What the heck did our parents do before this, when there were no strollers (nowdays, actually more like giant bumper cars with sunshades, outriggers for gear, hell you could probably pack a cooler and tent in one of those). They carried us or we walked beside them if we were big enough to keep up. We are still alive and in one piece. Parking spaces were 10" wider then, but that's about the only difference.
SEEDLADY	2012-06-22 04:50 PM
Fresh 'n Easy is a British chain, this is probably customary in the United Kingdom.
AUNTIE S.	2012-06-22 07:59 PM
Aw come on! Years ago I had 3 little kids, did grocery shopping for a family of 5 every week and parked where everyone else did and we all made do. Seems to me we are rapidly becoming a very pampered society.
COMMENT 290830P	2012-06-23 10:55 PM
I'm all for these signs and spots. I almost hit a 2 or 3 year old child in a parking lot. She was too short for me to see when I looked in the rear view mirrors and she was walking right behind my car. Her idiot father was not holding her hand or carrying her.....it should have been the latter.

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