My dad has never met my friends Lindsey and Joey. He knows of them. Lindsey's the chick I'm always doing stuff with, like going to Six Flags and lunch. Joey's my male friend in life that gives me advice and occasionally makes me dinner. However, my dad made an impact today. Lindsey, Joey, and I went to Loco's for lunch. Loco's is located in Abercorn Common. The shopping center is environmentally friendly. As part of its environmentally friendly features, it has a few parking spaces for hybrid cars. These spots are located next to the handicap spots.
The first time my dad saw these hybrid spaces at the shopping center, he was not happy about them. He kept asking what makes the hybrid cars so special to have special parking. He could understand handicapped parking and mothers-to-be. My grandmother was handicapped in her old age and my mother had some difficult pregnancies with my younger siblings. But the hybrid parking just got to him. He decided that hybrids aren't that special, so he parked our van in the hybrid spot.
Lindsey and Joey saw the spots today for the first time and started asking the same the questions my dad asked the first time he saw them. I started to laugh. I recalled the above mentioned event and remarked about it. The 2 of them laughed and enjoyed my dad's thought process. Joey, being the designated driver of my car, decided my dad's story was such a good idea, he'd do the same! So, Joey turns back to the hybrid parking spot and parks my car in the slot. So, even though my dad has never met them, he made an impact on them today.
Actually, my dad would like them. Since the beginning of the Summer semester, the 3 of us have gotten to know each other better. We have very similar political views. Their views are also very similar to my dad's. Either one of them will say something and it will be like my dad is in the room because he says the same thing when we're together at home having a conversation.
When I told my dad about the hybrid parking today, all he could do was laugh and send a bravo out to Joey for doing the same thing.
Posted by Shawn at October 30, 2007 8:48 PM in General.
I can see how hybrid parking can be difficult to enforce. Heck, normal people park in handicap parking all the time and no one does anything even though everyone knows it's obviously wrong. My guess is that the hybrid parking is trying to get people to actually use hybrid cars with the incentive of better parking spots.
Posted by: sya at October 31, 2007 12:19 PMSya, you're probably right. I've never parked myself in the spots. I prefer to park afar and walk. However, something about the spots bugs me, too. What's next? Spots for 3-legged purpled skinned ladies?
Next time I go to the shopping center, I will have to see if they have electrical outlets for these cars. That's the only reason I see to justify the spots.
Posted by: Shawn at November 1, 2007 9:29 AM
