My inability to get pregnant should not exclude me from the proximate parking spots at Loblaws. The blue sign is a longstanding wonder but the white sign is new. I'm not sure what it means exactly but it looks like that spot is being saved for a woman who is pregnant and already has a baby. Loblaws is pushing the rest of us off to the perimeters in this lonely, bitter endless landscape of misery called life. But I'm a rebel and Galen Weston's attempt to keep me away from the door won't work. I pull my hood up over my head and stuff a sweater in my shirt to make it look like I'm wielding a small child in my belly. So far attendants have not forced me to pee on a stick.
Saturday, March 20, 2010
Loblaws and their fixation for pregnant women
My inability to get pregnant should not exclude me from the proximate parking spots at Loblaws. The blue sign is a longstanding wonder but the white sign is new. I'm not sure what it means exactly but it looks like that spot is being saved for a woman who is pregnant and already has a baby. Loblaws is pushing the rest of us off to the perimeters in this lonely, bitter endless landscape of misery called life. But I'm a rebel and Galen Weston's attempt to keep me away from the door won't work. I pull my hood up over my head and stuff a sweater in my shirt to make it look like I'm wielding a small child in my belly. So far attendants have not forced me to pee on a stick.
"I pull my hood up over my head and stuff a sweater in my shirt to make it look like I'm wielding a small child in my belly. "
ReplyDeleteSounds like an eminently reasonable accomodation to me.
Next course: get Tony magi's pals to break your legs and you can use the handicapped ramps.
It always puzzles me when I see those huge SUV pulling into handicapped spot and perfectly normal people come out and rush in the store...How did they get the tag?
ReplyDeleteThis is discrimination. Since it is not a municipal bylaw, such as handicapped spots or fire hydrants and fire lanes, there is no legal ramification for parking in 1 of these spots. Why should a pregnant woman get some sort of privilege? She chose to get pregnant, live with it, and suck it up. The handicapped person didn't select the disability and hence should be accorded our respect and courtesies. Furthermore, as for Galen "Daddy's Boy" Weston...he dropped the 5c shopping bag gouge in the Maritimes according to Maclean's, but not so in Quebec...
ReplyDeleteFinally somebody who feels the way I do! I had to schlepp my kids from the far end of the lot 20 years ago and it didn't kill me.
ReplyDeleteI park in these spots all the time and I don't bother stuffing my sweater---I defy anyone to call me on it. Noone has either!
I never needed one of those spots when I was pregnant but then when I would shop postpartum with a baby and toddler in hand and really appreciated the convenience I was never sure whether I was entitled to one.
ReplyDeleteIn any case, they're rarely free so pregnant, saddled with kids or solo I've mostly ended up walking the parking lot.
No need to justify yourself Hattie9. If Wayne Dayton needs some sort of existential justification for simply helping someone who is in need of assistance, that's his problem. Do you have an issue with being helpful Wayne (so that you can get to the chip and dip counter 30 seconds faster)?
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Thanks for posting this! I'm currently working on a piece about this for my own blog (in French though). Thanks for being outraged. It's good to know i'm not alone :)
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