Health & Fitness
VIP Parking For Cops? What Does That Mean?
What kind of message does a "Reserved For Police" sign send to a store's customers?
Upon first glance, you might think that the Walgreens at Arden Way and Howe Avenue is just another friendly neighborhood drug store, until you see the parking sign closest to the front door that reads: "Reserved for Police".
Nothing about this says, "friendly neighborhood", am I right, people?
Aside from doughnut shops and the "House of Handcuffs", who else needs a reserved parking spot for police?
What scenario requires the cops to have VIP parking? Some eight year-old girl stealing nail polish? By the way, that would totally be Walgreens's fault for placing all that make-uppy stuff right by the front door--it simply doesn't keep honest people honest, is my point.
I realize that even though they are a drug store, they stock all their drugs (OTC or otherwise) in the farthest back corner so that you have to walk through all that makeup and holiday candy and Cheese Whiz and As Seen On TV crap to find what you came for in the first place, but you might be tempted to stop and purchase items other than drugs simply because you walked past it. Plus, you needed a respite during that 3-mile trek around the store whose specials and random merchandise bounces you toward the pharmacy in the back like a pinball machine ball. Walgreens has more endcaps and impulsive buy items per-capita than anything else in the nation.
So anyway, let's say some bozo has decided to either rob the place or do something illegal in there that prompts a call to the fuzz. I submit that the kind of person who is pulling a fast one in the drug store is the same kind of person who disregards other laws and would probably use the restricted parking spot that is closest to the front door for getaway purposes.
The cops would arrive, see that someone has parked in their VIP spot, utter a few choice words about the illiteracy of this town, and begin cruising the parking lot in search of another available space while pulling their parking ticket pad out of the glove compartment, because boy, are they gonna let that bozo who stole their spot have it.
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This blog originally ran on nannygoatsinpanties.com,
