Expectant Mother Parking

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Seeler said:
Obvioussly you have never been pregnant and/or cared for one or more small children...
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You're right Seeler - I've never been pregnant. However - I have cared for one or more small children.

Seeler said:
A baby in the womb is a lot easier to carry around than a baby in the arms.
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Okay.

Seeler said:
Many women work right up to their due date - I've known women who finished their shift after they went into labor.
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Okay. I've never known any women that have done that - but I'll take your word on it.

Seeler said:
Ask that same woman to carry around her baby and do the grocery shopping two weeks later and you'll find out who really appreciates a designated parking spot.
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I'm not objecting to special parking places for parents with small children.
 
Pr. Jae said:
YOkay. I've never known any women that have done that - but I'll take your word on it.
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I have known a couple personally and can think of two public figures who did it.

Kari Byron of the TV show Mythbusters had her water break on set during a shoot and finished the shoot (yes, they incorporated it into the show since her pregnancy was not exactly kept a secret or anything).

Sarah Blackwood of Canadian pop band Walk of the Earth recently went into labour on set at a video shoot and was touring with the band, which also includes her partner Gianni Nicassio, right up until then. She also famously shot a fantastic video cover of Madonna's song "Material Girl" while seven or eight months along with her first. I never knew a pregnant woman could dance like that.
 
Maybe someone has an invisible condition, like a migraine and needs to pop into the drug store, or has incontinence and needs to run to the bathroom - you never know. But there are people who would take advantage when they don't need it - like my mom with handicapped parking back when it was just a courtesy - leaving me in the car as "proof"... I think she missed the point. And others who park there and hope they get away with it. Like @Luce NDs suggests it is too bad we need so many laws to keep people cognizant of common courtesy. And also, waiting our turn. Take disabled bathroom stalls for example ...if someone is using it and I need it, I can wait a couple of minutes no matter who is in there and why they think they need it. Otherwise I wait or settle for a different stall. It's just not worth losing sleep over, is it? It's about cooperation - requiring patience not immediate gratification and entitlement.
 
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Kimmio said:
Maybe someone has an invisible condition, like a migraine and needs to pop into the drug store, or has incontinence and needs to run to the bathroom - you never know. But there are people who would take advantage when they don't need it - like my mom with handicapped parking back when it was just a courtesy - leaving me in the car as "proof".. And others who park there and hope they get away with it. Like @Luce NDs suggests it is too bad we need so many laws to keep people cognizant of common courtesy.
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I would just make generalized courtesy parking spots, and then leave it to people to act honorably.
 
In theory that's a good idea but courtesy is disappearing from our increasingly fast paced instant gratification, impatient world. People would compete with a "me first, I saw it first" mentality. So, the courteous minded people would get short shrifted.
 
Kimmio said:
In theory that's a good idea but courtesy is disappearing from our increasingly fast paced instant gratification, impatient world. People would compete with a "me first, I saw it first" mentality. So, the courteous minded people would get short shrifted.
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Course, another thing we should be doing Cousin is discouraging people from driving gas-powered vehicles at all. Maybe the real answer is to have parking spots only for vehicles that don't utilize fossil fuels.
 
Can you imagine courtesy spots in a world driven by desires only ... no thoughts allows as that is too close to knowledge and intelligence?

Does this bring us close to the truth that is painful to those that wouldn't really wish to know such things?
 
From the Pauli Exclusion Principle ... being beyond the heart's desire leaves one in a sense of chaotic thought ... about what those stunned people are doing down there ...
 
Mendalla said:
Sarah Blackwood of Canadian pop band Walk of the Earth recently went into labour on set at a video shoot and was touring with the band, which also includes her partner Gianni Nicassio, right up until then. She also famously shot a fantastic video cover of Madonna's song "Material Girl" while seven or eight months along with her first. I never knew a pregnant woman could dance like that.
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She also got kicked off a plane because her baby was acting up!
 
Fear mongering adults really don't like children ... especially those of the other ... thus pedophilia ...

Do some thing strange to them to scare them off ... thus churches fail from fear of being dealt strange things ... children are prone to de void of intelligence about what this means ...

Thus they are screwed from the beginning ...

Whose fault? A social thingy and yet few believe in sociology or communism in a medium form ...
 
Back to the original question, a pregnant woman may find their balance is off. I have known of pregnant women to fall on stairs, and on snow/ice, similair to what i referenced about my dad's vision. In particular in the winter, a pregnant woman may wish parking closer to the building. In our workplace, after my manager fell when pregnant, new pregancy parking spots were placed closer to the primary sidewalk and office.

Basically, it isn't about the distance, as it was about the walking conditions.
 
That's true. Like I said I don't think I've noticed pregnant mother parking here - but we don't have icey/ snowey days on a regular basis. Maybe that's why. When we do, nobody's used to it and everyone struggles a bit - be it driving or walking - but I can certainly understand what it feels like to have balance issues, and to fall on ice. Not good.
 
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