But I need it!

[LadyAndreca]

I think I've only seen the manual wheelchairs at our store used twice in the two years I've been there. Once was when an employee fell on black ice in the parking lot, to get her inside where it was warm. A second time was when the electric cart died on someone and the second electric was in use, but they only used it to get up to the registers and buy what they'd managed to get. When I worked at the Bullseye, I saw it used once, when a pair of teen/young college-aged girls came in and one had a cast.

The big difference was that at the Bullseye, people would sit on the bench and wait for a cart. At the Orange Apron, there is no bench, and they generally leave saying our blue competitor up the highway ALWAYS has enough carts.

[Anakah]

Bed rest huh? Then clearly don't leave the house! How unsafe for her baby. Poor baby. That girl sounded like an idiot. Clearly you needed it more. I once had to use a wheel chair in Sam's Cuz I was on crutches and the dirty looks I got... I later forked it over to an old lady who had collapsed in the bathroom. She needed it more.

I hope you're feeling better. I love how you stood your ground. Good for you!

[greensinestro]

See, I've mentioned this before about those electric carts and always wonder who really needs them and who doesn't. I can't judge people as I don't know what someone's condition actually is.

But, you were certainly in a condition where you needed one of those and were in no shape to walk around a store by yourself without the aid. That lady on the other hand, who knows? Maybe she had something that requires her to be off her feet. If so, she certainly didn't tell you about it. Her being pregnant was her excuse to be lazy, it sounds like. And her attitude and nasty disposition didn't score brownie points with you either, as it would not have with anyone else.

I've also known pregnant people where they fit into one of two categories. One is where they are pregnant and continue to work right up until they are ready to deliver. The second is where the lady gets pregnant four, five times or more, and each time is suddenly "disabled" from being able to work, be able to do the chores around the house, and look for everyone to feel sorry for them. I never feel sorry for these people as the life they have growing inside them should be something to celebrate, not take pity on.

[dalesys]

... duedate is tomorrow...

Duedate: A prediction, accurate to plus or minus three weeks or one tee time, of when the baby will arrive.

(Dad of 6)

[HappyFun Ball]

The pregnant girl made a couple of mistakes, 1. She didn't look pregnant (I know that we all carry differently and everything, but she wasn't even waddling and had no baby bump or anything) 2. She said yes when I asked if she was on Bed Rest (While there are different kinds of bed rest, the common factor is you need to stay near a bed) 3. I was about to get on the cart when she came kinda running up to me.


Now, she may have been lying about being pregnant or being on bed rest for all I know.. I just know that I saw no reason that she needed the cart.

[MoonCat]

I've never been pregnant, so I'm curious as to whether someone can even be diagnosed as needing bed rest for a pregnancy that's so new, she's not even showing. But even if it was true....her ass should have been home in bed then! Baby-daddy could have done the shopping without her.

[FormerCallingCardRep]

I was put on total bed rest the day I found out I was pregnant with Little Bits. She was a post uterine rupture pregnancy.

[klhanson]

The only time i EVER used a cart was when i was overdue and i was having sciatic problems and i was in horrendous pain.. but if i saw someone who needed it more i would let them have it.

[BeenThereDoneThat]

Yes, it depends on the reason you have to stay off your feet...for example, if you have an incomptetent cervix, once the baby starts getting heavy enough to put pressure on the cervix, you could dilate very quickly and give birth extremely early. In my case, I had very high blood pressure starting at 22 weeks at the latest and I wasn't showing much either...I was on bed rest for the next two weeks until it turned into full-blown preeclampsia and HELLP syndrome and I had to deliver at 24 weeks.

Of course, all that being said, if Little Mama was supposed to be on bed rest, she was NOT supposed to be wandering around Walmart...even if she'd had a cart! And if she wasn't supposed to be on bed rest but she was pregnant, she could certainly have walked on her own...in fact it would be healthier for her to get some moderate, safe exercise.

I'll stop now as this kind of thing is a VERY sore subject for me

[LadyAndreca]

Mom was in the Army, and claims she was doing PT (the physical fitness tests) until 8 months with all five of us kids. Given that my mother does not look like she's had five kids, I'm kind of inclined to believe her.

[XCashier]

3. I was about to get on the cart when she came kinda running up to me.

That sentence says it all. If you can run, or even jog, chances are you can walk around the store. If you can't walk that much, should you really be running?

During my pregnancy, I was in reasonably good health, despite being overweight even before I got pregnant. I was put on bed rest the last couple of weeks, but was able to walk around and carry light loads like normal until then. I needed to sit down and rest every so often, but that was about it. I certainly didn't need an electric cart!

[SuperDan]

A coworker at my old job worked (as a grocery store cashier) both the day before and the day after she delivered her second child.

[Seshat]

Pregnant women range all the way from 'completely able' to 'severely disabled'.

Just like everybody else.


Okay: because of the potential complications of pregnancy, the stats are skewed slightly towards the 'disabled' side by comparison with the control population.
And the heavy and off balance weight in the third trimester skews it further. That's why we, as a society, do make allowances available for pregnant women, especially those in the later stages of pregnancy.
But - preaching to the choir here - pregnancy in and of itself is not a disability.


Mooncat:
One of my cousins was on bed rest when she was trying. Admittedly, it wasn't total bed rest: she had to test fertility, and she was on bed rest during the fertile stages, until she tested negative. If she tested positive on a home pregnancy test, she was on bed rest until the doctor's test confirmed it.

She was an extremely unusual case, and has two healthy children now. But yes, it's possible to be on bed rest due to pregnancy complications from even before conception.

In contrast, my sister in law is another of those who was doing normal activities until the contractions started, and back to normal within days afterwards. (She did need those rest days - she's a small woman, and both babies were large.)

[Clover]

Bah! That sort of thing disgusts me. Getting knocked up doesn't render you incapable of movement unless there's some serious medical issues going on, in which case you shouldn't be running around shopping anyway. My mom grew up picking cotton down in the valley as a kid, and she knew women who also worked in the fields or orchards who would be working right up until they went into labor, hunched over picking cotton or standing on rickety ladders picking fruit, and would be right back to work the next day after having given birth. Whiny brat.

[Syriilord]

I need tacos.. I need them or I will explode...that happens sometimes..


...couldn't resist. It was just begging to be said *hides*

Awww... I wanted to explode...