tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3093978464674201909.post5744376929656311191..comments2009-11-14T21:12:32.930-07:00Childfree Chickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11624730662563056456noreply@blogger.comBlogger24125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3093978464674201909.post-38741881628165673382009-11-14T04:33:54.224-07:002009-11-14T04:33:54.224-07:00First time comment. I echo your sentiments plus can&#39;t stand the pathetic stickers on car windows, here, stating &quot;pregnant mother on board&quot; and those displaying the names of the kids, such as this one:<br /><br />Francesco and Joseph on board:<br /><br />http://it.tinypic.com/view.php?pic=nqr6sm&amp;s=4<br /><br />There is an interesting article on today&#39;s issue of &quot;The Times&quot;:<br /><br />http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/janice_turner/article6916343.ece<br /><br />Regards,<br />CF in Italy.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3093978464674201909.post-43619978674982730132009-11-07T07:55:44.961-07:002009-11-07T07:55:44.961-07:00So, I hate facebook for this reason too. Just got an update from an otherwise sane, intelligent, very sarcastic friend saying she would like any unpregnant people parking in the spots to swallow a bowling ball and be forced to walk around Wal-Mart. My response. &quot;Nope. Pregnancy is a choice not a disability.&quot;Marienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3093978464674201909.post-72521569411127877032009-11-02T10:02:14.958-07:002009-11-02T10:02:14.958-07:00Zia- Your self righteous, disdainful, wrong-headed comment was rejected. Please don&#39;t waste your keystrokes on this blog with such tripe. <br /><br />By your logic, there should be a special parking space for economically advantaged people because THEY spend more than the economically disadvantaged. I live in an upper middle class neighborhood and am one of very few minorities who live here. By your ignorant assed logic, there should be a special parking space for White people because by sheer volume, they probably spend collectively more than the few Blacks and Hispanics who live in this area.<br /><br />If you think it&#39;s acceptable to favor the childed over the unchilded, do you also think it&#39;s acceptable for retailers to favor people based on race and class? I&#39;m going to guess your answer would be no.<br /><br />Ugh...if you&#39;re going to come to someone&#39;s personal blog and tout your opinions as being superior, try to bring some semblance of logic to the table. Otherwise you&#39;re just wasting your time and mine- the precious two seconds it takes me to reject dumbass comments like the one you left starts to grate on me after a while.Childfree Chickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11624730662563056456noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3093978464674201909.post-8763274295291043352009-10-22T09:27:05.888-07:002009-10-22T09:27:05.888-07:00I just park there anyway. How do they know I&#39;m not &quot;expecting?&quot; Am I supposed to pee on a fucking stick before I enter the store?<br /><br />You&#39;re pregnant? Made. Bed. Lie.Pyro's Galnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3093978464674201909.post-34243968914894845872009-10-21T12:26:15.390-07:002009-10-21T12:26:15.390-07:00heya, first time reader and *gasp* I am a &quot;breeder&quot; or whatever you want to call me. However, I agree with you 110-freaking% For one, if you don&#39;t think you can make it to the door because you are parked &quot;too far&quot; then stay the eff home. The only place over here that I&#39;ve encountered with preggo parking is at Ikea and I&#39;ve parked in those spots before the parasite so I don&#39;t feel any entitlement, not to mention my husband would scorn me if I complained that I wanted &quot;preggo&quot; parking. <br /><br />Kudos to the CF community, I respect your decisions and opinions, just respect mine too so long as they are not asinine and dumb of course :DThasaneehttp://the-shoe-fits.netnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3093978464674201909.post-51206573058344603132009-10-21T07:14:56.839-07:002009-10-21T07:14:56.839-07:00I think there should just be a &quot;having a bad day&quot; parking spot, I could use one of those.Robinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13646695542116530854noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3093978464674201909.post-51816085539087049112009-10-20T10:22:27.534-07:002009-10-20T10:22:27.534-07:00Just found this blog, a friend forwarded it to me. Love it! I can say I&#39;ll be a regular reader from now on!Izzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17036385461850169988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3093978464674201909.post-82710395884041819102009-10-20T10:21:11.961-07:002009-10-20T10:21:11.961-07:00I am so very happy that I found this blog.<br /><br />I couldn&#39;t agree more - those parking spaces are ridiculous. If you don&#39;t wanna waddle from a few rows down the parking lot, don&#39;t get sperminated in the first place! Or maybe just don&#39;t gain 100 lbs and blame it on the pregnancy. You know, whatever...Vanessa (Last Night's Leftovers)http://last-nights-leftovers.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3093978464674201909.post-58444128057263220162009-10-18T04:38:42.076-07:002009-10-18T04:38:42.076-07:00Same case in Britain. So many of these Mother and Baby or pregnant spaces are popping up. Not only are they nearer to the shop, but they&#39;re also much wider than usual. Of course, if you happen to be the person who parks in a normal space next to one of these because there are no other spaces left, the extra width of the bay means nothing. You still get your car dented and scratched because they feel they&#39;re entitled to not bother looking or respecting other people&#39;s property.<br /><br />I have a genetic disease, but it doesn&#39;t entitle me to any help or parking nearer the store. Some days I cannot get up from a sitting or lying position easily - it&#39;s agony, but I have no choice. No-one else is going look after me. I just have to suck it up, shut the fuck up and deal with it. I didn&#39;t choose my genes, yet people choose to get pregnant. Grr!<br /><br />On the issue of seats on the subway, I started a cunning plan a few years back. Every time I use the Underground in London I wear a massive knee brace. If I see someone getting on that is in a wheelchair (and thus needs to be nearer the doors) or on crutches or is elderly, then I will gladly give up my seat for them. If a pregnant woman gives me the look, she ain&#39;t getting a seat. I was so pissed a few years back when London Underground started issuing pregnant women with badges encouraging people to give up their seats for them. If it&#39;s that much of an issue, take a freaking taxi, how is it sensible to be crammed into a carriage with 200 other people if you&#39;re about to drop a sprog?Dorian Graynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3093978464674201909.post-24424031135793247792009-10-17T06:51:10.235-07:002009-10-17T06:51:10.235-07:00@Michele (Currently):<br />1) True that.<br />2) Very true that.<br />3) You are absolutely correct. If these women genuinely have a health problem, they can get a temporary placard. That&#39;s exactly what they make &#39;em for.<br /><br />And your final question... well, they have those mechanical carts that overweight and handicapped people can ride in, I don&#39;t see why pregnant women wouldn&#39;t take advantage of this (convenience meant for someone else), too. :-)Elexinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09900512169920882213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3093978464674201909.post-62702636235954646932009-10-16T19:31:32.852-07:002009-10-16T19:31:32.852-07:00Ahem, a brief statement of facts.<br />1) Pregnant women in the U.S. today do not get any where near as much exercise as they need to.<br />2) If your pregnancy is so debilitating that you are incapable of walking a perfectly reasonable amount than you should probably be on bed rest.<br />3) I believe that handicap stickers are given on a basis of condition and the severity of it rather than age.<br /><br />A final question about the spots that&#39;s never made sense to me. <br />If you are so inconvenienced by your pregnancy that you cannot walk the distance from a regular parking space how do you expect to be able to walk in the store?Michele (Currently)http://www.blogger.com/profile/05552454894343012822noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3093978464674201909.post-58086329457219690402009-10-15T03:25:44.149-07:002009-10-15T03:25:44.149-07:00I totally agree: pregnancy is NOT a handicap!<br /><br />I am especially riled up right now, because my 8.5 months pregnant co-worker has me pissed. I knew I&#39;d be assuming her duties when she went on maternity leave at the end of this month, but last Wednesday her doctor ordered her on IMMEDIATE bedrest (due to her pre-existing condition of morbid obesity, diabetes, and high blood pressure). Why this person (who also has a history of mental illness among several members of her family) and her husband thought it was a imperative for them to have their own child (they underwent IVF treatments) is beyond me. Selfishness and narcissism come to mind. Oh, and she had no less than FIVE baby showers!!! <br /><br />Anyway, I had to cancel my vacation out of town last weekend so I could stay and do her work as well as mine (even harder than it should have been, since now she&#39;s not there to train me). I now might lose the vacation time, because I won&#39;t have time to use it before the end of the year. One other co-worker had the gall to suggest I donate my unused vacation time to preggers. NO WAY! I&#39;ll forfeit the time before I give her one single minute of it! Oh, and the topper: she had the nerve to email me at work and ask me to send her the home addresses of all our coworkers so she could send shower thank you cards. She said, &quot;I realize you might be busy...&quot; Gee, YA THINK??!!!!<br /><br />Thanks for letting me vent; there&#39;s only one other person at work who&#39;s sympathetic.Denise in WInoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3093978464674201909.post-40476488238477843432009-10-14T08:51:00.347-07:002009-10-14T08:51:00.347-07:00My husband has a torn miniscus ?? in his knee (and probably the other one too - he just needs to get that one looked at.<br />Basically his knees are shot to the point that he is in very noticeable pain while doing anything involving bending his knees ever so slightly these days. And he is no man-baby either! He was told by a his doc that the only thing that will help is surgery. <br />HE deserves a special parking spot more than any stupid pregnant woman (and you too!).<br />Your issues and my husband&#39;s are more worthy of primo parking in my opinion. To both of you I say park there all you want!<br />I&#39;ve actually parked in those spots marked for Expecting and Mothers of Small Children before when the lot was really full. How do they know whether I&#39;m pregnant or have small kids - at home! ;)Gumbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15777638943346918789noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3093978464674201909.post-63592032166532271702009-10-14T04:32:19.332-07:002009-10-14T04:32:19.332-07:00@WhiteRaven Slade: I also lindy hop and there were at least 3 heavily pregnant women dancing the night away. Pregnancy is not an illness and exercise is good!La pochetteMChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02790835471896982510noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3093978464674201909.post-17989996168557924892009-10-13T14:11:42.684-07:002009-10-13T14:11:42.684-07:00you go girl!phoenixachinghttp://phoenixaching.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3093978464674201909.post-20124705012641531112009-10-13T14:05:59.752-07:002009-10-13T14:05:59.752-07:00I was never meant to be a mother, but I have two kids. That aside. I agree with the prego parking space thing. It&#39;s not a handicap. And we don&#39;t need anymore &quot;special&quot; parking spaces, thank you. We already have to park about a quarter mile out from the door as it is (not that I can&#39;t use the walk, but you get the point.) I managed to hoof it into freaking WalMart and other stores on a regular basis while pregnant and dealing with pre-eclampsia and toximia...I didn&#39;t use a expectant mommy space. Sorry but others can buck up and do the same. And yeah. If your osteo is acting up and you&#39;re in pain, use the pregnant spot, I would too. Just found your blog today and love it.Stacey Thomashttp://www.thisjustinblog.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3093978464674201909.post-39513324148859155632009-10-13T11:13:14.896-07:002009-10-13T11:13:14.896-07:00Re: &quot;Expectant Mom Parking&quot;... I kind of feel entitled to park there. I mean, I&#39;m NOT expecting, but everyone else in the world is pretty much expecting that I will be, so, why can&#39;t I park there? ;)Elexinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09900512169920882213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3093978464674201909.post-77149344825814119642009-10-13T10:58:10.502-07:002009-10-13T10:58:10.502-07:00Side note: I like FaceBook, but mostly just for the games. Still, it has helped me to get closer to some long distance friends, so I like it for that. <br /><br />Just be sure to dump anyone you find really annoying. They won&#39;t get a notification that you dumped them, but they might notice you are gone if they look specifically for you on their friends list. (Most people have such large lists, though, they probably won&#39;t catch on.) You can also block them from trying to recontact you (which I&#39;ve had to do) and even block people from searching for and finding you (which is nice to keep away strange relatives and people from high school that you haven&#39;t seen in umpteen years). <br /><br />I dumped almost all relatives, all right-wingers, anyone who talked endlessly about their kids and anyone who never interacted with me, and I just keep my facebook list small. It&#39;s much more pleasant now.Phoenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05174871050139515912noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3093978464674201909.post-62994882718479955722009-10-13T10:49:29.707-07:002009-10-13T10:49:29.707-07:00I&#39;m glad my local store doesn&#39;t have anything this ridiculous. The worst thing about this IMO is the fact that the parking spot isn&#39;t designated for people LATE in their pregnancies, it&#39;s marked for ANY &quot;expectant mom&quot; which means someone 2 weeks along and under no strain whatsoever can use it. In short, your average downtrodden, exhausted, injured person is no match for a perfectly healthy woman who may be thin and well rested but is still more worthy of a special privilege than you because she is carrying a blessed spawn and you&#39;re not.K.Lewnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3093978464674201909.post-53126491430025852722009-10-13T10:42:58.125-07:002009-10-13T10:42:58.125-07:00Your friend could also get a handicapped tag if she so needed it. She could also stay home if she&#39;s too pregnant to handle leaving the house -- send the sperm donor to run her errands if it&#39;s that much trouble.<br /><br />Also, if she had been in better shape to begin with, pregnancy wouldn&#39;t be so hard on her. Apparently she NEEDS the exercise.<br /><br />Someone with COPD (lung disease that can be related to years of smoking) can get handicapped plates, but many smokers who haven&#39;t gotten that bad yet, or general obese people don&#39;t just get handicapped plates handed to them. She seems to think that handicapped plates are so easy to get. If they were that easy, she&#39;d get one herself and wouldn&#39;t need special parking spots.Phoenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05174871050139515912noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3093978464674201909.post-75564801621894972032009-10-13T09:20:27.206-07:002009-10-13T09:20:27.206-07:00I don&#39;t drive, so I&#39;ve never had that kind of problem... BUT, I take the subway regularly. Lots and lots of preggos there, most of them exhausted not because of working, but because they&#39;re coming back from extensive high-street shopping. I remember once I was sitting with no desire to stand up because of a broken arm and a gal walked in carrying a bunch of shopping bags. I couldn&#39;t tell for sure if she was pregnant (for all I know it could have been a beer belly). After giving me &quot;the look&quot; that obviously did nothing, she started insulting me for not giving up my seat for her pregnant holiness. Yup. Of all the passengers, she picked *me*. The girl who had her arm in a frikkin cast.<br /><br />I rest my case.Rosie L.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3093978464674201909.post-80780670182137760562009-10-13T08:12:24.899-07:002009-10-13T08:12:24.899-07:00Here&#39;s the thing... If a woman is really obscenely uncomfortably pregnant and HAS to go to the store because she has no support or whatever, sure I can understand her wanting a close spot -even if her condition is voluntary. There are some medical conditions that accompany pregnancy which could make walking even short distances very difficult. BUT if that is the case, that woman should get a temporary handicapped permit!! She shouldn&#39;t get an additional spot because she&#39;s pregnant, she should work within the accommodations that already exist for people with medical conditions.Elexinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09900512169920882213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3093978464674201909.post-33839071831850683922009-10-13T07:40:00.692-07:002009-10-13T07:40:00.692-07:00Pregnancy is not a disorder. It is not a &quot;handicap&quot;. <br /><br />I witnessed with my own eyes the vigorous activity of one of my Swing Dance friends. She Lindy Hopped for they whole 9 months plus (she was a late popper). <br /><br />It was at eight 1/2 months the rest of us in the group got her to chill out on the aerial moves as the guys were starting to have a hard time lifting her with good balance.<br /><br />That at the way other folks in the bar (gotta dance somewhere) would nearly have heart attacks watching her be flipped.<br /><br />They really didn&#39;t relax watching her dance in general (Swing Dance is very active), but that&#39;s just because people are so used to treating preggos like tender fwagile things. <br /><br />I don&#39;t treat preggos as though they are about to break, especially since watching my friend dance. Most of them appreciate still being treated like a person instead of a glass doll, but there are occasional exceptions *eyeroll*.WhiteRaven Sladehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07402041768591155908noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3093978464674201909.post-12236105368422094012009-10-12T22:36:52.481-07:002009-10-12T22:36:52.481-07:00Leave it to self centered breeders to think they are entitled to the moon for getting knocked up.<br /><br />&quot;Call the waaambulance, I got pregnant on purpose and now it&#39;s hard to walk. Nothing matters except how tired ***I am***! I should have ***my choice*** of parking spaces at the supermarket!&quot;<br /><br />*cough*BULLSHIT*cough*Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com