# What's wrong with some people?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-some-people/701549>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [October 17, 2014, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-some-people/701549 "2014-10-17T00:29:33Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2014, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-some-people/701549/181 "2014-11-01T03:04:20Z")

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_Both statements quoted below were handed to ZPG Zealot._

> [@QuickSilver](#):
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> [@Calatin](#):
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> Reading this response, I’d like to shake your hand.

Oh, great. I’m laughing so hard I’m choking.

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**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2014, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-some-people/701549/182 "2014-11-01T03:55:58Z")

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> [@Annie-Xmas](#):
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> What about the drivers who think they have the right to take over half or even more of the pedestrian crosswalk? You’re trying to cross and this car inching toward you? Getting two feet closer makes a big difference.
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> I’ve been known to just stand in front of the car and glare at them for two or three minutes.

Seriously? What in the bloody blue fuck posesses you to do this kind of shit? :rolleyes:

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**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2014, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-some-people/701549/183 "2014-11-01T13:15:20Z")

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RE: “pregnant women & parents with toddlers” spaces.

I used those when I was pregnant and my back hurt like hell. I’d lean on the cart, and that helped my back, but walking to the store could be painful. Also, I walked pretty slow, which was annoying to people on the parking lot, but less annoying to people in the store, where everyone is going a little slow because they’re looking for stuff.

I never used them when I had a baby or a toddler, because I thought the best space was right by the cart corral. I put the kid right in a cart, and go. But once my kid wanted to walk and had an opinion about being plopped right in the cart, I used to look for close spaces, because if the kid darted away from me, he wasn’t very visible to drivers. Which BTW is the reason the van spaces are close. Someone in an electric wheelchair doesn’t expend a lot of extra effort getting from the parking lot to the store, but they are not easily visible to drivers. It’s not especially safe for them to wheel across the expanse of the lot. I understand little people who have no trouble walking can nonetheless get handicapped placards for the same reason.

My kid is tall enough now that visibility isn’t such a problem, and we park anywhere. But where you park is one of those things you suddenly think a lot about when you have a kid, that you didn’t realize you’d think so much about before you had one.

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