Apparently it’s okay to take up two parking spots to bottle feed a baby

[Anonymous]

I was trying to find parking this morning for DS’s OT appointment and the only spot was being taken up by a lady who was bottle feeding her baby with the door open. She held up the bottle and rolled her eyes at me. Funny thing is I also have an infant (3 months) who also takes a bottle but I wouldn’t never take up a spot to feed him. I would get him out of the car and feed in the front seat or sit in middle seat. The lady could have drove over to the bank or gas station and parked there.

[Anonymous]

I am confused. Are you saying she should have closed her door so you could park next to her? Because I agree that would be ideal, or that she should have driven to a whole entire other location because that is ridiculous.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am confused. Are you saying she should have closed her door so you could park next to her? Because I agree that would be ideal, or that she should have driven to a whole entire other location because that is ridiculous.

That’s what she wanted Pp. She didn’t want to close the door otherwise she wouldn’t have held up the bottle and rolled her eyes at OP.

[Anonymous]

If she was planning to keep the door open to bottle feed then she should have driven to another place where that would have been possible. She was banking on people not asking her to close the door and that’s rude.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am confused. Are you saying she should have closed her door so you could park next to her? Because I agree that would be ideal, or that she should have driven to a whole entire other location because that is ridiculous.

That’s what she wanted Pp. She didn’t want to close the door otherwise she wouldn’t have held up the bottle and rolled her eyes at OP.

Who wanted you need to use a noun before the pronoun.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am confused. Are you saying she should have closed her door so you could park next to her? Because I agree that would be ideal, or that she should have driven to a whole entire other location because that is ridiculous.

That’s what she wanted Pp. She didn’t want to close the door otherwise she wouldn’t have held up the bottle and rolled her eyes at OP.

Who wanted you need to use a noun before the pronoun.

. Of course Dcum makes this isn’t something it’s not. You all need to get a life. Such hateful people here.

[Anonymous]

Next time, speak up and tell her that you'd like to park there. But you acted like a doormat and decided it's easier to express your anger to us who have nothing to do with this situation,

[Anonymous]

It’s not OK but at that point, I would’ve said sorry there are no other spots, please let me in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Next time, speak up and tell her that you'd like to park there. But you acted like a doormat and decided it's easier to express your anger to us who have nothing to do with this situation,

Op here. I did by beeping and she wasn’t happy which is proof she was planning on standing there with the door open for a long time. It’s so rude.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Next time, speak up and tell her that you'd like to park there. But you acted like a doormat and decided it's easier to express your anger to us who have nothing to do with this situation,

You’re jumping to a lot of conclusions Pp and frankly you’re also rude. I have a feeling it gives you some weird satisfaction to call people a doormat. You feel superior for taking other people down.. disgusting

[Anonymous]

It sounds like this mom put the baby in the carseat, and then realized he was hungry. Maybe she thought she had enough time to get him home first, but her older kid's therapy session ran long, or getting them all in the car took longer, so she decided to quickly feed the kid. Or maybe the kid was asleep, and then woke up starving. Mom didn't look around and realize there was only one empty space, or maybe when she started there were other empty spaces, or maybe the baby was really upset and she was frazzled, so she gave him a bottle, which of course makes sense because babies have the right to eat wherever they happen to be.

Yes, it wasn't ideal but once she started, she should be allowed to finish. When someone started honking at her, she held up her bottle to show what she was doing and that it wouldn't take long.

OP didn't plan her time well either. Unless this was her first time, she knew the parking lot was small and that sometimes one needs to wait a few moments for a space. Or maybe, like the first mom, she hadn't noticed that. She could have driven over to the bank or the gas station too. It's too bad she was a little late for OT, but that's not an emergency.

Honking was just stupid though. Because honking at a child has never made them move faster in the history of the world.

[Anonymous]

If I was the mom, I would have just gotten in the other side of the car and sat in the back seat with the kid. It was rude to take up two parking spots when there was limited parking. Its fine if she didn't notice you waiting, but once she did she should have walked around and gotten in the other door of her car to finish feeding the baby.

I have breastfed lots of babies in front seat of my car. Its totally doable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It sounds like this mom put the baby in the carseat, and then realized he was hungry. Maybe she thought she had enough time to get him home first, but her older kid's therapy session ran long, or getting them all in the car took longer, so she decided to quickly feed the kid. Or maybe the kid was asleep, and then woke up starving. Mom didn't look around and realize there was only one empty space, or maybe when she started there were other empty spaces, or maybe the baby was really upset and she was frazzled, so she gave him a bottle, which of course makes sense because babies have the right to eat wherever they happen to be.

Yes, it wasn't ideal but once she started, she should be allowed to finish. When someone started honking at her, she held up her bottle to show what she was doing and that it wouldn't take long.

OP didn't plan her time well either. Unless this was her first time, she knew the parking lot was small and that sometimes one needs to wait a few moments for a space. Or maybe, like the first mom, she hadn't noticed that. She could have driven over to the bank or the gas station too. It's too bad she was a little late for OT, but that's not an emergency.

Honking was just stupid though. Because honking at a child has never made them move faster in the history of the world.

New moms act so entitled. It would have been perfectly easy for her to just close the door and walk over to the sidewalk

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If I was the mom, I would have just gotten in the other side of the car and sat in the back seat with the kid. It was rude to take up two parking spots when there was limited parking. Its fine if she didn't notice you waiting, but once she did she should have walked around and gotten in the other door of her car to finish feeding the baby.

I have breastfed lots of babies in front seat of my car. Its totally doable.

Op here. She was overweight so maybe not possible. Being frazzled doesn’t warrant taking up two parking spots.

[Anonymous]

What she did was rude, but I'm more concerned that you are still so upset about it that you felt the need to go to the appointment, then drive home, then post about it on this board, then continually defend your position.

That's not a healthy psychological response to inconvenience.