This all seems so strange to me.

When I was a kid in the late 70s and early 80s, I must have spent hundreds of hours in the car waiting for one or both of my parents in stores.

I hated stores and was not well-behaved, so it was a good place for me to wait.

By the way, this was not unusual. It was very, very, very common to have kids wait in cars, even in Florida where I grew up.

This is one small part of the social changes that I discuss from time to time on this site that many people seem intent on denying but that are common and numerous.