As a father of three, I perfectly understand how difficult it is for pregnant women (damn, what am I saying now – I don’t get anything, only another pregnant woman can fully understand a pregnant woman!), and how important various urban utilities really are for them, as well as for the new moms.
Special queues in supermarkets, separate, more convenient parking spots located closer to the entrance – all these little things make life much easier for expectant mothers… although, unfortunately, not all people can understand this, and not everyone can accept it either. And this story fromthe user u/QuailPuzzled1286is more proof of that.
The author of the post is an expecting mom and she once went shopping at the local grocery store
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The author expected to park her car in one of the dedicated parking spots but things, alas, went another way
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A posh Lexus was ahead of the author’s car and it parked right in the mom-to-be’s spot
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To the woman’s indignation, she saw that the Lexus driver was just an elderly woman – not pregnant at all
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A quarrel arose and then the elderly woman lashed out at the author, not mincing words
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So, the Original Poster (OP) says that she lives in a small town in rural Saskatchewan, Canada, and one day she went to the local Loblaws store to do some shopping. The author of the post is in her seventh month of pregnancy, so she is very happy that there are special spots for pregnant women in the parking lot near the store – and she expected to take one of these spots. However, the woman’s expectations were not destined to come true…
Already at the entrance to the parking lot, a lavish Lexus was ahead of the OP’s car, and it headed exactly to that parking spot, appropriately marked, which the author of the post had chosen for herself in advance. Well, perhaps another expectant mom was driving the Lexus, the author probably thought to herself, and parked a little further away, in a standard spot.
Both drivers got out of their cars almost at the same time – and the original poster was very surprised to see that the owner of the Lexus was a woman in her mid-60s, and most likely not an expecting mom at all. Seeing the OP, she laughed and said: “Oh, I’m so sorry, I didn’t realize!” At that moment, the author, in her own words, could not restrain herself – on the one hand, resentment, on the other, hormones – so she coldly retorted: “You’re obviously not that sorry, since you parked in a spot you shouldn’t have!”
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“What can I say other than that the elderly woman in this situation has literally made every communication mistake she could possibly make?” rhetorically wonders Irina Matveeva, apsychologist and certified NLP specialist, whomBored Pandaasked for a comment on this situation. “Yes, this expecting mom’s remark was quite sarcastic – but, in the end, seeing her mistake, the Lexus driver could offer to swap parking spots. That would be appropriate.”
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