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How can some people be so inconsiderate?

Lindsey - posted on 11/17/2011 ( 3 moms have responded )

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I was reading about "stork parking" in a different community and it reminded me of something that happened a few days ago.

I went grocery shopping with my son, and as I was driving around the parking lot looking for a decent space, I noticed a group of people get out of a van that was parked in one of the stork spaces. There were a total of four (seemingly) healthy adults in their late-twenties/early thirties, and one child (my guess would be about two years old). They got out of the van and went into the grocery store.

Seriously? Can you think of any logical reason why four adults cannot manage to walk an extra 50 yards with one child between them?

So back to my original question... how can some people be so inconsiderate? The purpose of the space is to allow parents of small children (and pregnant mothers) to park closer to the store's entrance for easier access.

I myself stopped using those spaces when my son was old enough to sit in the cart. Before that I had to lug his carseat with me and put it in a cart, which was a HUGE pain because those things can be pretty cumbersome. And even before he could sit in up in the cart, I never used one of those spaces if my husband was with me (I just made him carry the carseat, or he would bring a cart to the car).

What has happened to common courtesy? How about common sense?

What do you think?

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Eron - posted on 11/26/2011

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the best thing about these spaces is that they are wide - to make it easier for an adult to open the door wide enough to unstrap and help a child get out of the car. personally i think these spaces are a godsend for anyone with a child under 5, when my older two where young these parking spaces didnt exist and getting them out of the car to go shopping could be....to put it politely....a bit of a challenge. people with children dont use these spaces because its closer to the store, they use them because they have a child that they have to assist to get them out of the car without causing damage to the neighbouring car + probably to avoid injury to themselves by twisting into unnatural positions to try and slide their child through a small door opening. now thats common sense x

Christy - posted on 11/20/2011

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Some pregnant looking men park in the stork parking ALL THE TIME at the store I go to and to make myself feel better I tell myself these men are indeed pregnant. Asses!

Denikka - posted on 11/17/2011

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Common sense is on its last legs and dying a slow, painful, horrible death.
Common courtesy is following in its footsteps.

I agree with you. I was lucky enough not to need stork parking (I may have used it once or twice total in the last 3 yrs). My grandparents were my transportation and, being elderly, they had a handicap sticker. It worked well for me. But it still pissed me off to see young adults with NO children using stork parking, or to see how many people without handicap stickers using those spots. When there are 6 handicap places and 5 of them don't have stickers, makes me mad.

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