Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for January 03, 2022

Parking, a problem observant Jews don’t have to worry about when going to services.

And if parking is a problem, his congregation must be growing!

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Just park on the lawn like I do. I mean really, it’s dirt and grass. It grows back and we have to waste money mowing and watering it anyway. Let’s get some use out of it.

Or would you rather have the opposite problem, no cars in the lot at all?

Well, better parking than parkour as a problem.

Yep, gotta be Episcopalians. My wife (before we were married) served on the vestry (church board) of an Episcopal church where the raging debate every month was “How do we get out of church an hour?” She got sick of it. This issue was important because “people have tee times you know.”

If this doesn’t practically SCREAM Princeton, I don’t know what does!!

Is Alexa a shabbos goy? With proper training beforehand, saying “Alexa, it is dark in here!” will cause Alexa to turn on the lights. I’m sure she can even keep track of when shabbat begins and ends although I’m not sure if that is an inbuilt bit of knowledge like the exact time of sunrise and sunset wherever you might be. Just thinkin’…

A former friar at our church always ended the 9:30am Sunday Mass (that is important to mention because it is the most crowded one) by saying “Be kind to others…starting in the parking lot.” Always. Every. Sunday.

Remember,Scottie only runs a teeny-weeny church in a teeny-weeny town.No comparison to the phony megabucks churches.

Just like promoting a movie,he has to think up hopefully harmless ways to make his church “Boffo B.O.”.

Does talking, beyond a certain amount, qualify as work?

Years ago in Boston, I spotted a church which had solved that problem in a way that could happen only in Boston.

I was walking down the street one morning and was passing by a large old church. I noticed several cars that appeared at first glace to be waiting for the traffic light to change so they could make a Left Turn. Then, at second glace, I realized there was no one IN those cars. They were just Parked in the street’s Left Turn Lane. While I was going “What the Heck?” about that, a few more cars pulled up behind the ones already there, people got out, locked their cars and walked over into the Church.

I kept on walking for a while, then turned around and headed back to where I was living. When I passed the church on the way back, the entire street in front of the church was filled with parked cars. They had literally turned a public street into a parking lot while they went to church.

Only in Boston. Mostly because the Boston Police are notorious for Never enforcing Traffic and Parking laws.

A Princeton, NJ, Congregation if ever there was one!