How convenient!

 

I think I have heard it all now. Our local health department has opened up a drive-through window for WIC recipients. It seems it's just too darn much trouble for them to get out of the car and walk into the building to reload their WIC cards.

 

The director of the department says one of the main reasons for their recent move to a new location was due to the fact that the building had room for the drive-through. She says that the drive-through is a great service they are able to provide.

 

Gee, I wonder about the convenience for all those people who are paying for the WIC cards, not to mention for the expense to put in a drive-through window for these people who have children they can't afford. Is it convenient for them to roll out of bed every morning and go to work? I'll bet they all have to get out of their cars and walk into the buildings they work in. Is it convenient for them to pay for their own milk and cereal and eggs and juice? Is it convenient for them to get behind a WIC client at the grocery store and wait while the cashier rings up all six gallons of milk and five boxes of cereal and eight dozen eggs separately?

 

Of course, the other side of that coin is that the Health Department may have taken this step for the sanity of its employees. I'm sure they get tired of all the single mothers bringing their screaming, out-of-control, illegitimate children into the building.

 

"WIC opens new drive-through." The Paris News; May 2, 2013; p. 1A.