We sometimes have occasion to visit the new Whole Foods store in our town.
One of the first things we see is a whole bunch of signs reserving parking space for “high occupancy vehicles only.” Defined as a car with four people in it.
Oh, please. How often do you see a car with four people in it? Yeah, okay–if you watch The Beverly Hillbillies reruns, with the four Clampetts in their old jalopy. Maybe the Clampetts are on their way to shop at Whole Foods.
How do they know, by looking at an empty parked car, how many people came to the store in it? They don’t seem to have any sentries. Nobody skulking around to make sure there weren’t only two people in the car.
What they are doing here, of course, is virtue signalling. We’re gonna *Save The Planet* by stuffing extra people into cars! I mean, if we can’t get them to come here on their bikes or trikes or skateboards. That would be even better.
Somebody out there wants us to live like the people in The Hunger Games, who don’t have cars, it’s not allowed, and can’t go anywhere.
The thing about the car is that it gives us independence. We go where we want to go, when we want to go. For some reason the elitists just can’t stand that. Independence and mobility should only be for The Best People. Not us peasants.
Hey, if they enforced their silly rule, we’d never go there at all. How about a store with no customers? That’ll work.