Anonymous wrote:What cracks me up are the expectant mom spots at the gym. Yes, let's minimize the exertion you expend getting from the car to the door so you can go inside and really exert yourself by working out. Huh?

ANY gym or WW, OE meeting, the parking spots nearest the door are all taken. 8)

What cracks me up are the expectant mom spots at the gym. Yes, let's minimize the exertion you expend getting from the car to the door so you can go inside and really exert yourself by working out. Huh?

Frankly, I think spots for pregnant moms/moms with kids/expecting families are complete and total bullshit. These are not categories of people deserving of privileges that would reduce their walking. These are people who need to walk more.


Don't think you'd feel that way at 9 months pregnant with back pain, possible hemmroids, and sore feet. Have you ever been pregnant?!

Yes. Twice. And I didn't feel the need to bitch about it.

What strikes me about this thread is the combination of posts from, on the one hand, women who feel terribly guilty for parking in such spots on the premise that they may have deprived a more deserving woman of the privilege of such a spot (when the spot is clearly meant for any pregnant woman or mother) -- contrasted with posts from angry and mean-spirited women who feel that such spots are ridiculous and a waste. Again, a war between the guilty and the mean/angry. Great.

Wow, what a terribly insightful post.

Anonymous wrote:Frankly, I think spots for pregnant moms/moms with kids/expecting families are complete and total bullshit. These are not categories of people deserving of privileges that would reduce their walking. These are people who need to walk more.

Don't think you'd feel that way at 9 months pregnant with back pain, possible hemmroids, and sore feet. Have you ever been pregnant?!

What strikes me about this thread is the combination of posts from, on the one hand, women who feel terribly guilty for parking in such spots on the premise that they may have deprived a more deserving woman of the privilege of such a spot (when the spot is clearly meant for any pregnant woman or mother) -- contrasted with posts from angry and mean-spirited women who feel that such spots are ridiculous and a waste. Again, a war between the guilty and the mean/angry. Great.

There's a woman at my gym who parks in the close-up "30 minute parking" spot when she takes her daughter and drops her off at the gym daycare for at least 1-1.5 hours. It annoys the crap out of me.

Has anyone noticed that at the Lee District Rec Center in Alexandria, there are a bunch of handicapped spaces for only Monday-Fri. I guess it's fair game on the weekends. I don't use them- would feel funny, even though the sign permits it.

There are hybrid-parking spots at the McLean Library.

But, unlike handicapped spots, there's no illegalities involved in parking in the mom or hybrid or whatever spots. It's just a drum that business wants to beat. So of course I park there, as I'm giving them my business.

Of course, no brainer. If I'm dropping a few hundred at buy buy baby you bet I'm not going to want to carry all that crap to the car on top of guiding my children and waddling myself past traffic.

But that's the only place I've ever seen these signs-the burbs. Are there actually any in DC?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Never, even when I was pregnant. Pregnancy is not a handicap and shouldn't be treated as such. I figure it can be used by someone who needs the space, not a healthy pregnant woman.

I'd make a wager that you've only been pregnant once.

When you're a couple years older with a toddler in tow, you will understand that the pregnancy "glow" is fleeting.

Truth is PP should stop staring at her popped out flappy belly button and understand that for some women pregnancy can be limitations and for families with smal children a close parking spot is a matter of safety.

yep. all the time.