Cookie lady shut down by anonymous complainer
Published 12:18 pm Saturday, December 21, 2013
CHANHASSEN, 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.”