Ok, I’m going to start this off by saying…
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| Look at my bump! LOOK AT IT! |
I’m 36 weeks pregnant! (Minus one day. Close enough darn
it!)
And that means I waddle when I go anywhere, and I have started,
yes, using the maternity parking wherever I go, if it’s there. Now, I
have this pet peeve about parking places being used by people who don’t need
them… I hate when perfectly normal, healthy people use grandma’s car and their
handicapped sticker or hanging sign, for example. I also hate when people who
are not pregnant park in the maternity parking meant for people 5 months and
up.
Today, I was at the
mall, and I go once a week for the exercise and to take Rayne for some girls
time. We just go walk, we get some lunch, and her aunties work there so we stop
and say hi. I physically cannot handle the long walk from the back of the
parking lot to the mall’s inside, but if all spaces are taken I’ll suck it up.
I just have to sit a while when we get in the mall.
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| Snuggling her sissy. Because I feel like showing off my girls today, darn it! |
Well, I park about 6
spaces from the maternity parking, which was full, but I have a small
contraction as I get out the car, which happens. It’s part of why, recently, I
really use those maternity spaces whenever I can. I lean against the car for a
minute, when who walks out but 3 girls, looking to be ranging in age from 17 to
20. Not a one was pregnant. And they were chatting and cackling about how they
got great parking and how no one had even checked to see if they were pregnant
or anything, and how this was WAY better than parking further back!
By this point, I’m
listening intently. And I’m fuming. Like I said, it’s a pet peeve.
They continue giggling
and laughing as they get in their car and leave. I hadn’t gotten Rayne out of
the car yet, so I went back in and got in that space really fast. But… come on!
You three healthy teenagers had to take a space designated for someone who
really can’t do as much walking as you?
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| I mean, they didn't LOOK blind... pretty sure they could read what the sign said... |
Before anyone says
that ‘if you can’t walk, don’t go at all’, note that I was more than willing to
park further back. It’s the principle of the whole matter.
I don’t see why people
can’t have some damn class and just, I dunno, take a regular spot? Like every
pregnant chick has to do when the maternity spots are full? If a pregnant woman had gotten into that car,
I so wouldn’t have cared about it… but these were teenagers who were bragging
to each other about parking in the spot when not pregnant.
I’m sorry, I don’t
want to be a shut in the last month of this party. I want as much exercise as I
can, and that means that I go out to places like the mall, during the day when
it’s not busy, and I walk a little while my other half works during the day.
On the list of things
that piss me off, this and taking a handicapped space from someone who needs it
are pretty close to the top of the list…
So what do you think?
Irrational to be annoyed internally, or annoying and it really should stop? Do
you get annoyed seeing someone take a maternity space when they aren’t
pregnant? (or a Handicapped space when they aren’t handicapped?)
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