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Mar 27, 2008 - Coloring Between The Lines

I'm beginning to think all this "self esteem" nonsense and telling kids that no matter what they do it's fantastic is coming home to roost. It's one thing to tell a two year old who scribbles all over the T-Rex picture that you love their picture. It's another thing once that kid should know better, like in high school.

At our church the front entrance to the parking is a driveway that comes off the street and shoots straight back to the rear of the building. A circular driveway swings around in front of the building and rejoins the main driveway.

I'll generally park along that circular driveway right at the end of it where it rejoins the main driveway. Now some people don't seem to be able to stay between the lines and will park just anywhere, so I try to maximize the parking behind me by pulling right up to the very end of the circular drive. And pretty much every time, someone thinks there's room for one more and parks in front of me.

With a big crowd expected on Easter Sunday I was going to make sure that didn't happen so when I parked it pretty much looked like my car might have been extending into the main driveway a bit.

Naturally, when we came out of church, someone had pulled up nose-to-nose about three inches in front of my car with their car blocking over two thirds of the main drive.

Without rules and regulations we have chaos folks!

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