Fox NewsCHANHASSEN, MINN. – A Chanhassen mother who has been baking cookies for the kids on her children’s bus for 15 years has been shut down by an anonymous complaint.
Every Friday, Anne Tabat has met the school bus in her subdivision with a basket of cookies. It began as a thank you to the bus driver. And, Tabat said, she couldn’t give the driver a cookie without giving one to every child on the bus.
Tabat said the cookies were also a way to get to know her neighbors.
“I didn’t live in the suburbs until I turned 40,” she said. “Look at the way these houses are designed here. They’re not designed with a friendly neighborliness community in mind. I haven’t been in most of the houses in my neighborhood. People live such busy lives; you don’t talk to your neighbors, you don’t know your neighbors.”
For the first time in many years, Tabat won’t be at the bus stop Friday. She received a phone call from the school this week telling her someone had complained and that she should cease and desist the dispensing of cookies. She said she never really had a straight answer about the specifics of the complaint.
“I think it’s somebody who just didn’t bother to get to know me and I think that’s what the sin is here,” Tabat told Minnesota Public Radio News.
Tabat has taken it in stride. She’s busy making 200 cookies for her neighborhood party Saturday.
“People are good,” Tabat said. “I’ve yet to find someone I can’t find commonality with. We’re all crawling around on the planet dealing with circumstances in our life, and most of us just want to raise a nice family and be successful in however you define success and for most people it’s just surviving.”
This is not about cookies, lemonade stands, flags or gardens in front yard, feeding the hungry or raw milk. It is about CONTROL and making you see you have no rights and you will get in your place. So sad.
One day you will find yourself standing around masturbating for that will be all you are allowed. Or you can stand and refuse to participate in these unlawful edicts that have no basis for enforcement.
Agreed. And it’s about time to start having annual ‘Day of the Rope’ celebrations for these wannabe power tripping bureaucrats.
How about we outlaw all the “cookies” that the criminals in the u.s fed-gov get?……(lobbyist percs).
There’s always a slimy rat bastard hiding behind their curtains and “informing the authorities” about everything.
Find the rat and cram cookie dough down her throat until she explodes.
This poor woman is only trying to be nice, and neighborly, but she doesn’t realize that people move to the suburbs to avoid neighbors, not befriend them. She should have stayed in the city and found herself a nice, big apartment building, where your neighbors are inescapable. You’ll hear them fight, you’ll hear them screw, and if they live above you, you’ll hear their every footstep.
Sometimes I miss my apartment building in Brooklyn. Where else can you get your two-cents into your neighbors’ domestic dispute from across the courtyard? (WHY DON’T YOU BOTH S.T.F.U. AND LET ME SLEEP??)
What we have here is a definitive example of people who feel that EVERYTHING is out of control; In their lives, and in the world, so when they are able to ‘control’ a situation like this, it gives them a sense of accomplishment in their otherwise dreary lives.
I mean, really: ‘Survivor’? ‘Access Hollywood’? ‘OMG’?
90% of Americans really have no life.
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