Walmart....."NO......"

The rest of the audience and I got quite a laugh a few years ago at a town board meeting near our upstate NY vacation cottage when a woman who was identified as the sister of a local campground owner complained to the board about RV's parking at Walmart and asked for an ordinance against it. She first showed a photo of a TT set up near the garden shop with a carpet laid out, the awning out, a large BBQ grill, several lawn chairs and tables, and other camping gear. The next set of photos was of a line of various RV's set up along a parking lot boundary with slides out, BBQ grills, and even dog fences erected. She claimed they'd been there for a week! Once the initial wow factor passed, the Walmart store manager promptly pointed out that the first photo showed a camping supplies display that Walmart had put out in cooperation with a local RV dealer, and another local campground owner pointed out that the rest of the photos were of a traveling carnival workers living quarters for the carnival set up nearby and were there with the permission of the parking lot owner. Needless to say, no ordinance was passed, and the woman left the meeting with a very red face...