I hope you have a boyfriend who doesn't get confused easily. Otherwise you might end up with a bunch of flowers in your mouth, chocolates in the funpark and you wouldn't want to find the vase.

I support the ones for expectant mothers, we have them on our local Army post. The problem remains that if you are 8 weeks prego you can probably still make it to the door without any problems. But when you are 8 or 9 months things are more difficult.

Unless they're getting in one of the motorized carts as soon as they get to the door, it's not difficult enough to warrant a special parking space.

And it has the word "tit" in it. :p

But places like Babies R' Us find that it's a good marketing gimmick.

:headshake

Same with my Grandad - my Dad has a badge that he uses when Grandad is in the car (and ONLY then). Grandad can walk, but not unaided. He has trouble getting in and out of the car, necessitating the extra space on either side provided by disabled spaces. He uses his walker to get to the store, and the shorter the walk outside, the better. Once in the store his shopping trolley provides the stability he needs.

I doubt anyone seeing him would begrudge him any decrease in his journey - he only goes to the store once a week to maintain a measure of independence and it is hard work for him.

I've said this before this before (here). I believe that it is reasonable to provide the shortest distance car-store-car for people who have difficulty or pain walking. I believe that decreasing the amount of overall walking these people have to do is one of the reasons for having the spaces in the first place.

Of course another is to allow people in chairs enough space to manoeuvre and there should be enough slots and of sufficient size for this too.

Titanium is derived from the latin root words "tit" and "anium," the plural of anus. It was used by the ancient Romans for making bikinis.

Are you sure it doesn't translate as "metal butt plug"?

That's the Greek translation.

Right, he does not walk the whole store.
Again, if you are going to walk the whole store you can walk the extra 5 spaces to the car.
I also feel those with chairs and lifts should have specific designations and no one else should park in those places.
If that were done, I could care less who parks in the other places.

Amen

My dad can walk the five extra spaces.....and he can just about walk through the store. But, he has to rest after just a couple of minutes walk. He takes about an hour to do a relatively small amount of shopping because of the need for frequent rests. Frankly, I want him parked right outside the store. It's not immediately obvious what the nature of someone's disability is. Some days Dad is more able than other days; some days he starts out okay but gets halfway through a task and becomes so short of breath it's terrifying. I have no doubt there are times that people see him get out of his van and head into the store and think hey....he seems fine. What they don't see is him propped up against a shelf 'resting' and trying to catch his breath again a few moments later.

I don't have a b/f. Only a husband. ;) He seems to know what goes where.

This is from the Cellar's Sig-Line collection:

"Corporal punishment, of course. Appoint a squadron of grandmothers and retired principals to act as Official Spankers of the State and you'll have felons reforming left and right."

Not necessarily an opinion I hold, but surely it's unpopular with somebody.