Rant Get rid of pregnant women handicap sign parking

I think parking spots for pregnant women is a good thing.

People who are just fat don’t deserve. For one very simple reason..

Pregnant women put on weight very rapidly, the body doesn’t have time to adjust to the changes in weight. That’s why allot of pregnant women experience swallow ankles and back pain.. Fat people while eating themselves into donut shape tend to adjust to there blobbyness.

Personally if a women is heavily pregnant behind me in a que in a shop, I’ll let them go infront of me or offer to carry shopping for them to the car. And if they’ve got 3 kids being in a pain in the arse I’ll do the same, so they can shoot through quicker and tan the little buggers in the car. This is called being polite, nothing wrong with it. Infact the world could do with a little more

 

tbh, fat people shouldn't get special treatment, it's like not kicking a drunk person out of a bar...

 

I'll let a pregnant lady sit in my sit on the bus or the train and i'll open doors etc.. but i'll stay in my seat if your a porker, not trying to be nasty its just that its your own fault ok being preggers is your own fault but you spit that extra weight out after 9months and youv'e done something productive.

 

Well this is an anger-inducing thread, eh.

My wife is pregnant. Only 19 weeks so far, and she's already got severe back pains, finds it hard just getting up off a regular chair, can't get into my car, etc. It's not as easy as you'd think. It's not the same as being fat, as someone else mentioned above.

Try it, you'll realize why you need to cut them some slack.

Plus, who's being lazy when you park in their 'close to the shop' parking bay?

 

When someone is fat, maybe more often than not it is due to lazyness, and for these guys the furthest parking spot would be appropriate, but sometimes, there are very big reasons for why they are that way. You can't just assume every fat person out there is a lazy pig.

The only abuse of diabled parking i see is when someone seems to be using a friend's or relativess disabled parking permit, they park right out front in disabled parking, but they swiftly walk right in. I say for these people, that if you park there, and you're not disabled, then any citizen has the right to run you over, breaking your legs.

 

if she is that bad off, why is she even going to the store? why cant you do it for her?

 

True, but at what point did the person gaining weight not look at themselves and say: "Whoa. I think I need to reign it in a bit here"?

Take those extreme examples of bed-ridden, super-morbidly obese people. There is a special hospital in the States (don't smirk --I'll bet you that the next one will be in the UK) that treats those cases. The biggest problem for staff is to keep the fast-food delivery people outside the main entrance. I mean, these are people who are at risk of instant death, are depressed, are in hospital for extremely risky surgery because they are desperate to lose weight. Next they dial out for a pizza. Extra large.

We are talking about addictive behaviour here. Of course it is not all their fault. Of course they need help and understanding. And of course you cut off their fast food. I mean, when we treat alcoholics, we cut off their booze. When we treat drug addicts, we cut off their supply of drugs. Here's a thought: when treating obesity, we stop feeding them. And we expect the person to make an effort to kick the habit, and change. We do not enable them.

When you allow an alcoholic to come late into work because of a hangover, you enable their addiction. When you cover for them because they are too sick from a binge to come into work, you enable them. When you get them alcohol, you enable them. When you let them sleep on your sofa because their wife kicked them out (again), you enable them. When you say: "Hey, they can't help it, it's like a disease, you know?" you enable their addiction.

When we let obese people use facilities for the disabled, we enable them. When we let the use two airplane seats, yet pay for one, we enable them. When we say: "Hey, they can't help it, it's like a disease", we enable their addiction. So don't point and laugh at fat people, don't judge them, don't insult them. But do let them walk that distance. Do let them stand in the bus. Think of it as tough love.

 

Please tell me you're joking .

Here's a little experiment that might help you become a little more empathic toward pregnant women. First, put on 40-50 pounds in the span of a couple months. The majority of this weight should be in the front, in your lower abdominal area. Remember, you can't just remove the weight at your convenience. You have to keep it on all day, every day. A baby doesn't go away with exercise.

Next comes the swollen feet. Keep in mind your body wasn't used to this amount of weight (remember it came on pretty fast), so your feet, legs, and back will be struggling to keep up. Oh, and let me know when the chronic back pain sets in. Carrying that much weight, so low and in front, puts an extreme amount of stress on the body.

Bear in mind that as far as your body is concerned, all resources go to the baby first. Your body is essentially sacrificing itself to keep the baby alive. As a result your hormone levels and natural body defenses will be all out of whack.

Next, get chronic hemorrhoids. And you thought the back pain was bad.

Then there's the nausea and the headaches and all the other pleasant things your body puts you through. All this time the pelvic bones are actually shifting to prepare the birth canal. Pregnancy is one of the most exhausting things a person can do to the body. Yes, walking 50 extra feet can leave a pregnant woman catching her breath. Still think pregnant women are lazy? Are you empathizing yet?

-monkey

 

Spot on.

Silly people.

 

I didn't say she was going to the 'store'. I asked who was lazy when parking in the closest possible space - someone who needs the space, or someone who can walk the extra 20 feet without pain?

But, pregnant people don't always have someone around to help out. They could be single, their partner could be away on business, could be at work, etc. Not really up to you to decide why people shouldn't leave the house..

 

Great post. Have a gold star.

People will wake up when they get that far in life, I'm sure.

 

Im amazed at this thread, the amount of totaly selfish coments comeing from people is sick.

Women who are pregnant get my full respect, as a bloke im glad I will never have to go through it, but the least you can do is cut them a bit of slack.

How old are you lot?

ps/ supermonkey. nail. head. spot on.

 

OP has gone very quiet now

 

Damn right. Hopefully he's nursing a big bitch slapping incident.

 

i'm 27, how old are you?

So do any of you people have an arugment for what I have said? that if a women is in such bad shape that she cant walk a few extra steps that she shouldn't be shopping in a store? Or how about the fact that the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists suggests that pregnant women get exercise because they need it? and that parking closer can actually take away from the exercise that they need?
Dont misunderstand me here, I have no problem with being nice to someone. I'v let people go in front of me in line if I am buying a lot and they only need to buy one item. but treating pregnancy like its a diease or a disability kind of sends the wrong message about it.
and I understand and know that its tough for a woman to be 6, 7, 8, or even 9 months pregnant. but life is tough. deal with it. If someone is in such bad shape that they cant physically go through the process of being pregnant, maybe they shouldn't have gotten pregant to start with. There are things called condoms. and yes I know that no form of protection is 100% effective, but you could always just not have sex.
And this is just the start of it all, it doesn't exactly get easier from here. and there is no "parking for mothers with teenage kids" that I have ever seen.

http://www.ocregister.com/articles/devore-parking-handicapped-2005589-disabled-pregnant

 

Pregnant women sometimes need to be no more than 5m away from a toilet at all times. Fair play really. Just go a bit further yourself you lazy ***

 

if she cant be more than 5 meters from a toilet should she be driving in a car? or going to a store? or leaving the house at all?
try answering the question up above instead of swearing like a child.

 

this is a childish rant, really it is.

for all the people saying that pregnant women are lazy and that closer to store spaces should not be reserved to them:

there is an interesting suit that lets guys simulate what a pregnant woman feels.... at least in part, and the guys that use it get a hole new perspective on things, maybe you should try to be single (divorced, separated, widow, raped, partner working far away.... etc...) pregnant man with this suit and go around the parking lot searching for a parking space during some time, depending on the time of day, then getting to the shop and out with a bag of food so that you don't go hungry, you know, your family wont help you, neither your friends (several logical reasons, you can figure it out.... i hope).

also a question: would you like to have a reserved space for you at the store in the case of a disease that causes you severe pain when you.... do anything? as in a handicap....

 

I suspect you're 27 physically, but everyone calls you an idiot.

Oh and you're probably a strong conservative.

 

Being pregnant is not the same as being disabled and it shouldn't be treated as such. Pregnancy is optional, if you can't deal with walking 20ft into a supermarket where you're going to walk hundreds of feet, then get the man who's child you're carrying to do it. Disabled spaces are for people who need extra space to enter and exit their vehicle, often because of wheelchairs or needing the door to be wide open.

This is stupid, and I hope I don't ever have to see it (you certainly don't get this crap where I live, yet).