Afternoon Carpool Line
From Chicken Soup for the Soul: Being Grandma
By Sharon Braner

I’m not retired, I’m a professional grandma.
~Author Unknown

It was a typical fall day in Dallas, warm and sunny. We were sitting in the grandchild’s carpool line, something we’d done many times before.

This carpool line is an incredible sight to behold. Only Chick-fil-A’s plan to get people and cars through a line in a short amount of time can compare.

The large parking lot is sectioned off into painted lanes numbered 1, 2, 3, and 4. The first driver to arrive gives the child’s number to the policeman with the clipboard and proceeds to the beginning of line 1. Parents and grandparents, nannies and older siblings follow suit, and pretty soon dozens of cars are lined up in each numbered row. It looks like the place where you return rental cars at the airport. Everyone is locked into their spot, so no movement is possible in a lane until the car ahead exits. (Keep reading)