Parking wars

Dear Parent of Dancing Child: You did it again. There's snow piled up everywhere and walking paths are severely restricted outside the dance studio. Parking spots are few and far between but they can be found if you're willing to walk a little ways - a really little ways. You're not though. You're not willing to walk anywhere. You're so not willing to walk anywhere that you park your car directly outside the dance studio. How marvellously ingenious and convenient. For you. That way, you don't even have to get out of your car when your daughter finishes dance class. All she has to do is step out of the studio and into your car and away you go. Even when she's chatting away with the other girls in her class and taking a bit long to get out, you wait there patiently, like a good parent. The rest of us? Well, you certainly don't care about the rest of us OR our children. Because when you park your car directly in front of the door, you effectively block our access to the parking lot. We have no choice but to climb the snowbank and hope we don't slide under the wheels of your car. I know that you hope we'll understand about you not wanting your daughter to walk out in the cold, so I hope you'll understand that it was truly an accident when I slipped three times and hit the hood of your car. I know I scared you but the snowbanks are so darn slippery. Oh? What's that? You've decided to move your car so it doesn't block the path? Why, thank-you!

How very thoughtful of you.