Family Parking
Last night I went to Ikea to get some curtains. Not that the parking lot was particularly full, but there were two spots up front reserved for "Family parking" with icons of little people and little children.
Normally I ignore these signs and park in the spots if available, especially at the A&P. (My feeling is if you are too much of a fucknut to use a rubber or pill or diaphram then you should be able to walk to the A&P. Just because you have some fat copy of yourself hugging your thigh doesn't give you special rights. Two words for people who can't walk across the A&P parking lot with their kids: Boarding School).
But anyway, I didn't park in the family spots at Ikea because they are foreign and from socialist country, so I felt like they deserved the benefit of the doubt for not knowing this kind of discrimination is not allowed. (After all, imagine a little sign with a white stick figure that instead of "Family Parking" read "White Male" parking. There would be outrage.)
This ikea incident though got me to start thinking of all things, Walmart. Walmart ranks just above Landfill on places I like to be. Walmart also refuses to sell RU486, the Abort-o-matic pill. I haven't been to a Walmart in a while, but I imagine in their Family friendly atmosphere, I could expect them to have "Family Parking" signs (also, I would sort of expect them to have "White Male" parking signs, but that's not the issue here).
Well now if Walmart doesn't sell RU486, they are just helping to create more people who need the "Family Parking" spaces. This is good for them, since families are going to spend alot more at Walmart. Families with Children are more likely to be poor, thus shop at Walmart more. They are also going to spend more at Walmart, because instead of buying for two people (a loving couple) they are at least buying for three (a loving couple + bastard child).
This is a brilliant scheme. I think I should buy stock in Walmart.
Normally I ignore these signs and park in the spots if available, especially at the A&P. (My feeling is if you are too much of a fucknut to use a rubber or pill or diaphram then you should be able to walk to the A&P. Just because you have some fat copy of yourself hugging your thigh doesn't give you special rights. Two words for people who can't walk across the A&P parking lot with their kids: Boarding School).
But anyway, I didn't park in the family spots at Ikea because they are foreign and from socialist country, so I felt like they deserved the benefit of the doubt for not knowing this kind of discrimination is not allowed. (After all, imagine a little sign with a white stick figure that instead of "Family Parking" read "White Male" parking. There would be outrage.)
This ikea incident though got me to start thinking of all things, Walmart. Walmart ranks just above Landfill on places I like to be. Walmart also refuses to sell RU486, the Abort-o-matic pill. I haven't been to a Walmart in a while, but I imagine in their Family friendly atmosphere, I could expect them to have "Family Parking" signs (also, I would sort of expect them to have "White Male" parking signs, but that's not the issue here).
Well now if Walmart doesn't sell RU486, they are just helping to create more people who need the "Family Parking" spaces. This is good for them, since families are going to spend alot more at Walmart. Families with Children are more likely to be poor, thus shop at Walmart more. They are also going to spend more at Walmart, because instead of buying for two people (a loving couple) they are at least buying for three (a loving couple + bastard child).
This is a brilliant scheme. I think I should buy stock in Walmart.
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