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Bobo Bonobo® > wrote:

> On Mar 29, 8:20*pm, Sqwertz > wrote:
> > "Jean B." > wrote:
> > > And her excuse: *"I have
> > > children in the car!" *I was thinking of the wonderful
> > > example she set for those children....
> >
> > And going even farther away from the OP:
> >
> > Our grocery chain has not only handicap parking spots (required by
> > law, of course), but about 8 spaces near the front of the store for
> > "Customers With Children". *
> >
> > Those spaces should be a free for all, IMO. *It's discriminatory,
> > for one. *OTOH, it's nice to have right at th thoroughfare to the
> > store so that kids can open up their cars doors and bolt right into
> > traffic before their parents can walk around to the other side of
> > thew store to grab their hands.
> >
> > Second of all, my mother has children. *What's to keep her from
> > parking there? *They may be 40+ years old and live in other states,
> > but she is a customer with children.
> >
> > Third: *It's a waste of 8 perfectly prime parking spaces weekdays
> > from 8AM to 3PM.
> >
> > And for some reason, even the parents with children don't park
> > there. *Weird.
>
> Babies R Us always had spots near the door for expectant mothers.
> That was nice. The children thing at the grocer is stupid.
>
> Now that my wife reads this NG, I'm going to have to start behaving
> better. Fat chance.

Why would an expectant mother need preferential parking? Most expectant
mothers I have known were perfectly capable of walking to a store from
any location in a parking lot and that includes a colleague of mine who
is due next month who walks a few blocks to her car at work every day
without a problem.