On my way to work every day I drive past Meijer. Today, something strange was going on there. When I drove by, there was a handful of people on the roof, standing near the edge looking down over the parking lot, which had far fewer cars than normal. The cars that were in the lot were not parked very well; they were scattered willy-nilly around the lot, some in the aisles, most parked across lines, and so forth. Some were in worse situations--there was a car wrapped around a light post, a car that had apparently gone THROUGH a cart corral, a couple cars on the sidewalk in front of the store, one halfway into the garden center gate, and one sitting on its side in a traffic island. What struck me, however, were the PEOPLE in the parking lot: they seemed to be wandering around aimlessly, as if they had all forgotten what they were doing. Small wonder, since they had all apparently forgotten how to park their cars.