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Anonymous
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"Mother-to be" or "Family" parking spaces set aside in store parking lots. When did we decide as a culture that the hassles of a certain group of non-disabled people are more important than the hassles of all other non-disabled people?
Today I had to run an errand on my lunch hour. I felt terrible because I wrenched my back in a fall this weekend and I got scolded by my boss because something didn't get done that was someone else's responsibility. Basically, I was having a crappy day. I passed up the "family" spots because I didn't have my kids and I'm not currently pregnant and parked way in the back. As I'm dragging my aching back into the store, a pregnant lady in one of those spots practically hops out of her car and jogs toward the entrance. These spots always bothered me before I had kids for the preferential treatment implied in them, but I thought I would "get it" once I had kids of my own. Nope. Still seems unfair. Where are the "I am just getting over the flu" parking spots or the "My boyfriend just dumped me and I was up all night crying" parking spots. Having kids and being pregnant is just a part of life and everyone should be responsible for handling the hassles in their life equally. It may not "really piss me off" like the "men seeing Winnie the Pooh called pedophiles" lady, but it does annoy me. |
Anonymous
| Agreed. A mild annoyance I chose to ignore. |
Anonymous
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While I can see the pregnancy one pissing you off, the family one seems like a safety thing to me. We have daycare in my husband's building and there is special reserved parking in his garage for daycare families near the elevators on one floor - it is a safety thing, so you are not hauling kids across a garage, and so everyone knows there will be groups of daycare kids trasping through.
I have no problem with people unloading kids so they won't have to walk across the parking lot. |
Anonymous
Ha. I felt much better when I was going to work pregnant than when I was going to work after being up half the night with a nonsleeping baby. Ouch. |
Anonymous
| not a bad point. particularly when most of the time, women make a conscious decision to get pregnant. |
Anonymous
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So really, you are just jealous that you aren't as special as a pregnant lady? You must be a republican. Hey, if I can't have it, NO ONE CAN!
Why can't you look at the other side of the coin . . . and think what a great society we are to offer a little perk to pregnant women or families with small children? |
Anonymous
| Well, expectant mother/family parking is usually provided by businesses that want to draw families to their stores. They see money coming from those people. I don't think it's charitable at all. More like, "we want their money, how can we make it easier for them to give it to us." I don't think they have the same thinking with respect to people who have bad backs, or were up all night crying. Hell, if I had a business I might designate a spot for people who aren't disabled or pregnant, but need a break anyway. |
Anonymous
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Just the other day in the "Most dangerous episode with your child" thread we were talking about the danger of parking the stroller directly behind the car, and lamenting that you have no choice but to do just that because most parking spaces in this area are so narrow -- but family parking spaces allow you to put the stroller next to the car.
Why do people begrudge others so little? |
Anonymous
How is that Republican? It sounds Democratic to me, like objecting to the income gap not because you want poorer people better off but because the wealthy people should just have less, even if it doesn't make anyone else better off. |
Anonymous
| what irks me even more are people who are clearly not pregnant or with kids parking in these spaces. |
Anonymous
It is a sign of the times. You can compare it to people who are angry at union members. Hey, if I'm not allowed to organize en masse with my coworkers and demand better working conditions, by golly you shouldn't be able to, either! Or the people who rejoyce in the federal workers getting a pay freeze. Hey, I just got laid off, so YOU should get laid off too!! Crabs in a bucket. |
Anonymous
| The pregnant person will be pregnant for a good long time. If your back stays hurting, get a handicapped permit. |
Anonymous
Can you read? She has small children, they weren't with her. |
Anonymous
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Well, given the vague title of this thread, I'm chiming in with an unrelated mild annoyance:
Facebook birthday notifications. I've stopped clicking on the announcement that my friend is having a birthday because I don't feel the need to be the 43rd person to post, "Happy Birthday! Hope it's a great day!" And in return I don't publish my b-day on FB and thus get like five comments that day which I'm okay with. |
Anonymous
| Here's something that mildly annoys me: chronic complainers. |