Someone has been doing the walk and not just the talk. Signs are popping up here and there that reserve strategically located parking spots near store entrances for women with small children.
Whether it was due to organized lobbying by unnerved mothers or smart business thinking by store managers, what’s important is that times are changing and with them the signs.
Change, however, usually takes a while and so far I have only spotted a few of these signs around the US and England (mostly in front of baby supply stores).
But I think there is hope that maybe in a few years from now, wobbly toddlers won’t have to be dragged in tight motherly grips across sweltering seas of asphalt while dodging the bumpers of the octogenarians’ chariots. And mothers won’t have to be reminded again and again what was meant by the ‘weaker sex’ as they haul their well-fed infants’ car seats towards the queue of shopping carts beckoning in the distance like a fata morgana.
It’s great when something you always wished for actually happens, just like red roller skates under the xmas tree. A Big Thanks to you out there who made it happen...and sorry Santa, I don’t mean you...not this time anyway.
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