Like I said, you speak in secondary terms.
No one said they weren’t able to do that. Where’d you come up with that? It is not even a tertiary point.
Meanwhile, the better markets do not do it. Better? Make more money, sell more product, and have better prices. Pregnant women want better food and better prices.
It is the “little woman” attitude. Let’s be clear. Calling it caring must be a headache for pregnant women.
Errr…NO
Designated parking spots for pregnant women or “person with a baby/toddler” …especially the toddler … would be seen as a wonderful acknowledgement of the specific challenges they face that the ignorati cannot even begin to imagine. No matter if those challenges have been explained by someone who has been pregnant.
You’re beating up on your Straw People a bit too much for any credibility here.
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So if stores designate parking for specific types of people, what do you think about people outside of the targeted demographic using those spaces? Able bodied using handicap spaces? Single dudes using expectant mother spaces? Teenagers using parent with children spaces?
I do not care. It is not a legal matter. It is a preference matter by the store. There is no legal bite. If you are wondering, I do not park close to the store anyway. I have never used one of these spots.
But very few stores do this. Most ignore the idea. It might not be legal to give preference to one group outside of the legally mandated handicap spots. Again this is not a legal entitlement.
The store comes off as a pain to most people.
Again fix the food is my advice to the store. It is the poorer super markets that do this.
I have a question, do any of you really care? It is interesting. We are in a social space where people are not fully honest. Do you really care? Can you speak for yourself? Or do social mores dictate?
It is just 5 or 6 parking spaces. Your pregnant neighbor is not going to fall over tomorrow if you do not fight the good fight.
Here is someone with no social mores. So its not just me. LOL
Are you calling mothers child challenged? What is the word for it these days?
I should add why it annoys me. The 5 or 6 spots are empty almost all of the time. That means everyone is pushed back several spots for no reason at all. Closer to where I want to park at the back of the lot. I hate going by an executive decision like that.
Now my MCD where I go for decaf at times, they have very little parking. One side all handicap, I am glad to see that. The other side is mostly pick up spots. I park in a pick up spot all the time and go inside. Do you care? Again fewer than three cars at any time getting pick up, but ten spots for pick up. Then almost no more spots for actual walkin traffic.
We are in a social space where the decline of common courtesy can be seen everywhere we look. That’s why some of us care.
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Sure!
I take it you do not care but are stranded in ridiculously believing you do.
When someone has a genuine POV that is not yours, your need for the collective is garbage.
All nanny-nanny aside, I need a red flag on a pole that I can raise that says “over here you forgetful dumba$$”. . . .I never remember where I parked.
I vote however the preggers vote.
MS
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Your needs for everyone here to love you are noted.
But the major box stores disagree with you. They don’t do it. It is the crappier stores who sell GMO products and pesticides to Moms who agree with you. And it is very few of them that agree with you.
It is grounds for a class action suit because pregnant mothers are not a protected class like the disabled. Please do not tell me being pregnant is a form of disability, and your wife has been there.
It seems like you have very big feelings about stores that provide courtesy parking spaces to pregnant women.
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For what it’s worth, such spaces are often required by local zoning ordinances. For example, here in Miami-Dade there is an express requirement for any establishment that has more than 10 parking spaces to provide a space for persons transporting young persons and strollers.
I can tell you from personal experience that at least here in Miami, such spaces are not available for pregnant women. They are available for people with babies and young children. They are provided in order to minimize the path of travel for infants and very young children, who are especially vulnerable if struck by even a very slow moving vehicle and are often transported at a height where they are less visible to drivers. Not because pregnant women are less fit or are being given special treatment due to any physical infirmity.
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“Over 65” is also not a protected class, do you complain about “senior discounts” and similar. Do you also complain about condo developments that only allow “over 55”? Etc.
Must be rare in Greater Hartford and possibly not at all, because there are stores that have them and stores that don’t in the same town. But very few have them.
For these, I am forever grateful. Who wants to be around pregnant people? LOL
Some light reading to help you with your guilt complex.
https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/JFR/H/PDF/2025HB-07061-R00PD-JFR.PDF
It varies. And even if the zoning code requires them, you’ll still see lots of places that don’t. Typically these requirements are fairly recent, and existing parking lots won’t have to comply with them until they come in for redevelopment. Otherwise they’re grandfathered.
An easy way for you to tell, if you care, is to see whether the sign designating the space for stroller/young child parking contains a reference to a permit. If it does, then it’s probably a requirement of local zoning - because people won’t have permits unless there’s some government program providing for those permits to be issued.
Methinks thou doth protesteth too much.
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I’m sure the feeling is mutual.
What does a random Joint Favorable Report regarding mandatory minimum parking requirements have to do with the decline in common courtesy?
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You are still in the building? Sheesh
You’re kidding, I’m a magnet for pregnant women.
An unanswerable question…you’re assuming the link was actually read before the reflex dump.
As to the designated spots for pregnant women/those with toddlers, I can’t say I would’ve seen a need for myself as my pregnancy was largely plain sailing. However, I’m knowledgeable and imaginative enough to be aware that there are plenty of women around whose pregnancy is not…so, my opinion is almost as moot a point as that of someone who’s never even been there.
Designated spots for those trying to manage young 'uns is a different matter…the little buggers tend to dart off in the most unpredictable directions when least expected and a special spot is of at least equal benefit to the rest of us. With a bit of a hint on the likely pithed off mood the young mum or dad …and grannies…are in would likely to be a good deterrent to the “nobody tells ME where to park” contingent.
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