| |
Gia LuPeaA
StuckOnPeas
PeaNut 416,889
March 2009
Posts: 2,594
Layouts: 0
Loc: The right place, at the right time.
 |  Posted: 11/21/2012 6:07:45 PM
parked in the "Expectant Mother" parking spot if you weren't expecting?
Edited to be clear.
|
| Princess of Procrasti Nation. | |
|
|
Yubon
lunch is for wimps
PeaNut 261,669
May 2006
Posts: 13,003
Layouts: 0
Loc: Hotel for Cats
 | Posted: 11/21/2012 6:08:36 PM
Yes, when I was pregnant.
Duh! |
|
|
Georgiapea
Mom to the Wild Things.
PeaNut 96,783
July 2003
Posts: 26,413
Layouts: 0
Loc: Poss-a-Dillo Hill, Ozark, AL
 | Posted: 11/21/2012 6:09:32 PM
No. But they actually have those? I've never seen them. Are they like 1 row back from regular handicap? | |
|
KikiPEA
Pea, Glorious Pea
PeaNut 43,536
July 2002
Posts: 15,275
Layouts: 160
Loc: In the land of loss...weight loss, that is. 35.5 down, 10-15 to go! :D
 | Posted: 11/21/2012 6:09:58 PM
No. I've never been pregnant. I've never parked in a handicapped spot either, because I am not handicapped. |
|
|
He**inWA
*Clever Pea Title Here*
PeaNut 220,816
August 2005
Posts: 8,900
Layouts: 2
Loc: Hidden under a pile of scrap!
| |
cmpeter
PEAceful Pea
PeaNut 14,521
April 2001
Posts: 34,343
Layouts: 31
Loc: Washington State
 | Posted: 11/21/2012 6:25:11 PM
No. |
|
|
mari61804
BucketHead
PeaNut 419,072
April 2009
Posts: 641
Layouts: 0
Loc: Sunny So-Cal ( San Diego)
| Posted: 11/21/2012 6:25:11 PM
Nope.. I even felt weird parking in those spots when I want showing yet. I suffer from sciatica so there were days in the beginning where I just had to. |
|
|
PierKiss
What if everything is an illusion & nothing exists
PeaNut 82,319
April 2003
Posts: 14,412
Layouts: 39
| Posted: 11/21/2012 6:28:54 PM
Nope. I only use them when I am pregnant, and when I don't have my other kids with me. If I have my kids with me, I stick to using the Child Parking spots that are next to the cart corrals.  This way I don't worry about putting away my cart!  |
|
|
purpledaisy
Calm
PeaNut 116,261
November 2003
Posts: 25,154
Layouts: 102
| Posted: 11/21/2012 6:30:00 PM
No, not when I wasn't expecting. |
Becca
May we be consumed with the Creator of all things rather than with things created.
6 rings - no cheating! Go STEELERS!
Holding a grudge is letting someone live rent-free in your head. | |
|
|
batya
Making the WWW better, one post at a time.
PeaNut 59,094
December 2002
Posts: 31,790
Layouts: 24
Loc: up on my high horse
| Posted: 11/21/2012 6:30:13 PM
No. When I was PG I felt pretty good and never felt the need to. I left them for those PG ladies who really needed those spots. Actually the first 2 pregnancies (1997, 2000), I never even saw them.
And before someone comes and says they are not a legal designation, it is done by the lessee of the parking lot who pays money for the right to have those spots used for their store any way they wish. Since they want them used that way and they want to keep that demographic happy, I would never park in them if it was not my right (PG) to do so. Same for green spots. (Although it's more obvious if you plunk your hummer in a green spot.)
(We've had this convo on the board before so I'm expecting... pun intended.) |
OK. Newbie. This is how it works. If your post consists of 80% sanity, 10% stupidity and 10% all kinds of crazy, we immediately focus on the 20% b/c it discredits the 80%.
| |
|
|
ilovebuble
StuckOnPeas
PeaNut 539,539
January 2012
Posts: 2,451
Layouts: 0
 | Posted: 11/21/2012 6:36:28 PM
Nope. There are only a few places that have them here and they aren't all that convenient anyway. | |
|
melanell
Ancient Ancestor of Pea
PeaNut 26,836
January 2002
Posts: 14,445
Layouts: 86
 | Posted: 11/21/2012 7:04:44 PM
No, I have not.
But I have to say that around here, they tend to be right next to the handicapped spots and have signs of similar colors.
Several times I have seen people park there who clearly are not pregnant nor have small children, but who do look like they may need a handicapped spot.
I've seen it happen when there are actual handicapped spots available.
I really think that some people don't even realize what they actually are. I think they see the sign and the location and think they are a handicapped spot. | |
|
janet r
AncestralPea
PeaNut 22,327
October 2001
Posts: 4,073
Layouts: 17
| Posted: 11/21/2012 7:07:39 PM
No. I have never seen one. | |
|
myshelly
Ancient Ancestor of Pea
PeaNut 471,001
June 2010
Posts: 7,385
Layouts: 0
 | Posted: 11/21/2012 7:08:37 PM
Yes.
I have parked in them when I am with my mom (who has had 2 strokes and is physically handicapped in that she has a very hard time walking) because we have several stores here where the expectant mom spots are closer to the door than the handicapped spots.
I have parked in them at TRU when I am with my 3 kids. My TRU has 26 expectant mom parking spots. Seriously. I counted. That's excessive and ridiculous. I'm parking there.
| |
|
MrsKLewis
Will I ever get to Buckethead?!
PeaNut 530,601
November 2011
Posts: 491
Layouts: 0
Loc: Crimson Tide Country
| Posted: 11/21/2012 7:09:48 PM
No. I've been tempted I will admit! But I remember very clearly what it's like to wobble like a penguin, so I couldn't with a clear conscience. |
| "Blessed are the children of Scrapbookers, for they shall inherit the Scrapbooks." | |
|
|
gmcwife1
SamFan
PeaNut 33,625
March 2002
Posts: 7,962
Layouts: 0
Loc: Washington State
| Posted: 11/21/2012 7:13:05 PM
No, they didn't have those when I was pregnant so I've never needed or used one.
~ Dori ~
| |
|
recap.pea
StuckOnPeas
PeaNut 288,074
December 2006
Posts: 2,968
Layouts: 0
 | Posted: 11/21/2012 7:35:57 PM
I will admit that I have and was not pregnant. I have done it a couple of times when I just needed to run in and get a couple of things and it would take me 15 min or less. I don't do it very often but I have used that space before. There is only one store here that has them (a grocery store). There use to be quiet a few that had them but all the other stores did away with them. | |
|
batya
Making the WWW better, one post at a time.
PeaNut 59,094
December 2002
Posts: 31,790
Layouts: 24
Loc: up on my high horse
| Posted: 11/21/2012 7:39:26 PM
It isn't illegal to do so..
Sometimes you don't do something not only b/c it's not against the law, but b/c it's not right.
The store pays to lease the lot and designates the spots for a reason.
sigh. |
OK. Newbie. This is how it works. If your post consists of 80% sanity, 10% stupidity and 10% all kinds of crazy, we immediately focus on the 20% b/c it discredits the 80%.
| |
|
|
KateMarie
Ancient Ancestor of Pea
PeaNut 165,323
August 2004
Posts: 5,081
Layouts: 0
Loc: Just outside of Boston, Ma.
 | Posted: 11/21/2012 7:49:04 PM
Only when I was pregnant. |
|
|
luvcookies
PeaAddict
PeaNut 409,644
January 2009
Posts: 1,914
Layouts: 0
| Posted: 11/21/2012 7:53:09 PM
No, Im able to walk fine. |
|
|
Spongemom Scrappants
HRH pilates teaching wino ball of fun
PeaNut 297,141
February 2007
Posts: 10,612
Layouts: 31
Loc: South Carolina
| Posted: 11/21/2012 7:56:39 PM
No. But I got in the habit years ago of parking further out just for the extra steps for the health benefit. I figured the time I've saved over the years not circling parking lots angling for the closer spots is a benefit, too. |
Angie
Where the boys are... my new husband, my four sons and my boy cat.
| |
|
|
luvmythree
StuckOnPeas
PeaNut 223,222
September 2005
Posts: 2,702
Layouts: 47
Loc: Kansas
| Posted: 11/21/2012 8:11:53 PM
Once when I was pg with my last child. |
Kirsten mom to~
Alexandria 20
Ethan 10
Owen 8 CFC syndrome,cp 29.5 wk preemie
Expecting my first grandbaby May 2013!
| |
|
|
~Lauren~
Original Pea #1803
PeaNut 246,606
January 2006
Posts: 29,617
Layouts: 16
Loc: right here...even if some don't like it. ;)
| Posted: 11/21/2012 8:36:26 PM
Yes, I have and will continue to do so depending on the day despite the beliefs of the ever-self-righteous peas |
Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the government take care of him better take a closer look at the American Indian - Henry Ford | |
|
|
lovemybabes
PeaAddict
PeaNut 467,201
May 2010
Posts: 1,152
Layouts: 0
Loc: Where the Army sends us
 | Posted: 11/21/2012 8:43:57 PM
Nope. I only did it when I was pregnant towards the end when I was really miserable or sick. 
They have them here on post all over the place. For expectant mothers & moms with kids under 12 months. I suppose to allow for less walk time when walking with a carrier. |
|
|
sunny 5
StuckOnPeas
PeaNut 472,024
June 2010
Posts: 2,062
Layouts: 0
| Posted: 11/21/2012 8:48:21 PM
we don't have special spots in our parking lots...parking is too precious to save for such a small group. (few pregnant ladies here!)
10% of our population has a handicapped placard...include dh. if you mispark into a handicapped spot (a legal one)...the fine is $1000. | |
|
batya
Making the WWW better, one post at a time.
PeaNut 59,094
December 2002
Posts: 31,790
Layouts: 24
Loc: up on my high horse
| Posted: 11/21/2012 8:54:37 PM
I'd rather be self-righteous (and have superior values) than feel entitled. Isn't that the complaint that the older generation has about the younger one and the ones that we're raising?
Everyone needs to do what they feel is appropriate. I'm not out calling the cops on old women who park in expectant mother spots. I just think it's a shame that people don't honor the wishes of those who pay for the lots they are parking in.
I also feel lucky that I neither need handicap parking nor did I take the expectant mother parking b/c I felt fit then, too. If you feel entitled to it, have at it. But then don't protest when someone calls you entitled. |
OK. Newbie. This is how it works. If your post consists of 80% sanity, 10% stupidity and 10% all kinds of crazy, we immediately focus on the 20% b/c it discredits the 80%.
| |
|
|
squillen
Tier 1 Baking Pea
PeaNut 133,550
February 2004
Posts: 39,550
Layouts: 321
Loc: Hudson Valley, NY
| Posted: 11/21/2012 9:11:50 PM
I only parked in them when I was pregnant. As I got closer to my due date (and huger!) it used to royally tick me off when the slots were full and the people who parked there weren't pregnant, nor did they have small children. I'm not opposed to walking a few extra feet, but when you've got a baby's head grinding on your pubic bone everytime you took a step, you really grew to appreciate those expectant mother's slots! |
|
|
TXDancermom
PeaFixture
PeaNut 146,748
May 2004
Posts: 3,651
Layouts: 1
| Posted: 11/21/2012 9:18:18 PM
no. | |
|
SDeven
Love Letters Pea
PeaNut 65,852
January 2003
Posts: 28,194
Layouts: 380
Loc: Nashville, TN!
| Posted: 11/21/2012 9:27:25 PM
Honestly, no. Purely out of fear that if I parked there, I would end up pregnant. |
|
|
tamhugh
Ancient Ancestor of Pea
PeaNut 12,875
March 2001
Posts: 7,882
Layouts: 11
| Posted: 11/21/2012 9:44:14 PM
Honestly, no. Purely out of fear that if I parked there, I would end up pregnant.
This seriously made me laugh out loud.
I don't remember ever seeing them when I was pregnant. I doubt that I would have used one even if I had because in the beginning of the pregnancies, I was so sick that I was hospitalized most of the time. Once I felt good enough to actually go anwhere, I felt good enough to walk a longer distance. I never felt huge and uncomfortable but I have had friends that really struggled at the end. I would rather see someone like that use one than me. So, no, I would never and have never used one when I was not, or when I was pregnant. | |
|
~Lauren~
Original Pea #1803
PeaNut 246,606
January 2006
Posts: 29,617
Layouts: 16
Loc: right here...even if some don't like it. ;)
| Posted: 11/21/2012 9:54:35 PM
Entitled? To a place designated as public parking? OK.
IMO, those who are "entitled" are those who want me to pay for their lifestyle choices.
But if taking one of these parking spots is your definition of "entitled", I can live with you calling me that. Googly eyes and all. |
Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the government take care of him better take a closer look at the American Indian - Henry Ford | |
|
|
WImomma
BucketHead
PeaNut 504,629
April 2011
Posts: 643
Layouts: 18
| |
angievp
Ideay pues?
PeaNut 143,106
April 2004
Posts: 6,637
Layouts: 36
Loc: Miami
| Posted: 11/21/2012 10:27:45 PM
would I ever? nope. Have I ever? nope.
I'm opposed to idea of them, but not enough to park my non-pregnant self there. So I walk the extra steps.
| |
|
dawnandnala
BucketHead
PeaNut 81,629
April 2003
Posts: 831
Layouts: 33
| Posted: 11/21/2012 11:30:46 PM
I've never seen any around here....
We do have some that have senior citizen parking though stores - I only go to them when my mom is with me LOL! |
|
|
jenp1024
Ancient Ancestor of Pea
PeaNut 51,697
October 2002
Posts: 5,991
Layouts: 9
Loc: Connecticut
| Posted: 11/21/2012 11:59:13 PM
No. I'm a rule follower.
I like to park far away so I can pull through and not have to back out of my spot. |
|
|
Ursula Schneider
BucketHead
PeaNut 97,497
July 2003
Posts: 992
Layouts: 94
Loc: Southeastern Arizona
| Posted: 11/22/2012 12:04:03 AM
No, can't bring myself to do it, no matter how tempting it is in the shade during 110° weather |
|
|
ketsmom
PeaAddict
PeaNut 489,418
November 2010
Posts: 1,561
Layouts: 0
| Posted: 11/22/2012 12:11:05 AM
I haven't but I've been tempted and, flame away, I think they are ridiculous as are the ones for parents with young children. Any women with a normal pregnancy can walk , even when she's at full term. I'm not saying its comfortable but IMO, pregnancy is not an illness. Now if someone has a pregnancy with complications they can always get a handicapped sticker. As for the parents with young kids, I see how it's convenient for them to park close but I don't think it's necessary or that they deserve special treatment. | |
|
*Delphinium Twinkle*
I'm just a pea:)
PeaNut 163,613
August 2004
Posts: 67,990
Layouts: 236
Loc: *Sunny Southern California*
| Posted: 11/22/2012 12:47:05 AM
No and never |
|
|
gar
Whoopea!
PeaNut 172,235
October 2004
Posts: 12,440
Layouts: 0
Loc: England UK
| Posted: 11/22/2012 1:32:36 AM
I've never even seen one, let alone parked in one!!
As with so many things if you've got them then we probably will before too long but no I probably won't ever park in one.
|
"I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours."
Stephen Roberts
| |
|
|
PennyPaws
PeaAddict
PeaNut 551,978
April 2012
Posts: 1,396
Layouts: 59
Loc: Canada
| Posted: 11/22/2012 3:05:43 AM
My mom pulled into one of those spots by accident and I pointed it out to her... She told me she was expecting...  (She's 59, and I'm a 34 year old only child...) She said, "I'm expecting you'll be quick - now hurry before I get caught!" 
I know what you're all thinking but don't worry - I came out, she had moved the car, so I don't have to share her craft supplies with any other heirs... |
|
|
enjoytotheend
AncestralPea
PeaNut 359,333
January 2008
Posts: 4,024
Layouts: 0
 | Posted: 11/22/2012 3:16:54 AM
Once at 3 am when I had to fill a prescription. But I felt guilty and never did it again. | |
|
Emilyrsps
PeaNut
PeaNut 453,027
January 2010
Posts: 354
Layouts: 39
Loc: Kentucky Y'all!
| Posted: 11/22/2012 3:31:35 AM
The only place I have seen them around here is by Babies R Us. Our Babies R Us just happens to be next to Michaels. Been tempted, but never have and don't think I ever will! |
Try to make at least one person happy every day, and then in ten years you may have made three thousand, six hundred and fifty persons happy, or brightened a small town by your contribution to the fund of general enjoyment.
- Sydney Smith
http://spotspaperandscissors.blogspot.com/ | |
|
|
leftturnonly
Will trade mosquitoes for cookies.
PeaNut 416,788
March 2009
Posts: 19,567
Layouts: 0
Loc: Living in Kim's Perfect World, again.
| Posted: 11/22/2012 4:24:10 AM
Never saw one. |
If PC is the way to get to Heaven, I'm going straight to Hell.
| |
|
|
jgpea
PeaAddict
PeaNut 378,405
June 2008
Posts: 1,714
Layouts: 9
| Posted: 11/22/2012 7:17:03 AM
What?? I thought it was for me because I was "expecting" to do some shopping, and I'm a mother........ | |
|
beanbuddymom
StuckOnPeas
PeaNut 370,521
April 2008
Posts: 2,693
Layouts: 0
| Posted: 11/22/2012 7:26:30 AM
I have never ever seen those designated spots and no never parked there even though I have been huge with pregnancy twice I would have likely welcomed the opportunity |
|
|
Dalai Mama
La Pea Boheme
PeaNut 49,641
September 2002
Posts: 24,126
Layouts: 85
Loc: Drunk on the lawn in a nuclear dawn
| |
Pretty In PeaNK
PeaFixture
PeaNut 417,489
March 2009
Posts: 3,980
Layouts: 2
| Posted: 11/22/2012 7:37:38 AM
No, only when pregnant. And only when big pregnant.
I had a particularly difficult time towards the end of my pregnancies, and those spots were so appreciated. I had sciatica pain and pubic bone pain which made walking long distances awful. I had to take frequent sitting breaks. All I can say is, when I had to park on the other end of a parking lot and painfully waddle past someone who was clearly not pregnant getting in their car in a pregnant spot (like a man or older woman) it hurt a little. Like saying, my convenience is more important than your pain.
Just because something isn't illegal doesn't mean it's not morally wrong. |
| "How are we going to get rid of racism? Stop talking about it!"--Morgan Freeman | |
|
|
TeamSteve
The saddest thing in life is wasted talent.
PeaNut 263,696
June 2006
Posts: 5,154
Layouts: 0
Loc: Florida, for now.
| Posted: 11/22/2012 8:15:54 AM
I would only do that if I was pregnant. |
___________________________________________________________
Saving one dog will not change the world,
but surely for that one dog, the world will change forever. | |
|
|
Kelpea
In a HapPea Place
PeaNut 176,832
November 2004
Posts: 12,208
Layouts: 2
Loc: gone to chemo with BethAnne
| Posted: 11/22/2012 9:12:19 AM
Actually the first 2 pregnancies (1997, 2000), I never even saw them.
Hey! Batya, we were pregnant the same years.
With my first, I didn't have a car (lived in NYC). So, no, I didn't break the rules.
The second time I was in the burbs. Chasing a HIGH energy toddler, with a tough second pregnancy. I parked in the mom spaces a couple of times, when I'd had a bad day. But I have not parked there when I wasn't knocked up. |
|
|
handle
PeaNut
PeaNut 532,844
December 2011
Posts: 442
Layouts: 0
Loc: Australia
| Posted: 11/22/2012 4:33:45 PM
We don't have those here. We do have 'parents with prams' spots though, they're just not for pregnant people. | |
|
![](<a href="http://pinterest.com/dawnandnala/"><img src="https://a248.e.akamai.net/passets.pinterest.com.s3.amazonaws.com/images/pinterest-button.png" width="78" height="26" alt="Follow Me on Pinterest" /></a>)
