Target has too many designated pick up spots, ours has 12 or 14, which they are rarely used.
I suppose it is possible for some stores to overdo it. None around here that I have observed overdo it though. I guess my position is that I am willing to be mildly inconvenienced in order for others to have a service/opportunity that they need. So if a store has a pickup zone at the front door, how does that harm anybody? And it could be a real blessing for somebody who needs that. If the store can put those places at the side or rear, good, but not all can easily do that. Some can't do it at all. And if some abuse the privileges or conveniences offered, well that isn't worth not offering those services at all.
Where I draw the line is having to use my phone to scan prices or to read a restaurant menu and things like that. I just am not comfortable with that at all and generally can't figure out how to do it anyway.
(I have finally conceded to use those little machines on restaurant tables that you stick your credit card into or tap it to pay your bill.)
Pickup zones, handicapped parking spaces and such are far more primitive concepts but still a true blessing for those who need them even if that privilege is abused. I have no more problem with government requiring those or stores providing those than I do with laws against littering even if it's a pain trying to find some place legal to dispose of my drink cup or whatever.
Thank you, I go for long walks almost everyday but when I start to tire, things go down hill rapidly, I was a block away from my house one morning and got so confused I had to call my wife to come get me, the cell phone has a locator so she came and got me.
People that make judgments like that one person did are usually lacking empathy and understanding. I hope your sister in law prayed for that person as they obviously did not understand what they did.
Your stroke is one of those issues I was thinking about. It doesn't always happen, but for many who have strokes--and they can happen to what are believed to be 100% healthy, fit people--that can do very weird things to the body and/or mind. And that is something that often doesn't show but it is truly a disability.
When you have never experienced sudden debilitating fatigue or weakness when normally you feel strong and fit, it is difficult to understand what that is like. If you've never experienced vertigo that comes on unexplained or severe chest pain that you carry nitro pills to deal with or experienced any of dozens of invisible but handicapping medical conditions, it is probably easier to judge people who appear well, fit, capable but endure these things. Is that really fat lady just a lazy slob pigging out on Twinkies? Or does she suffer Cushings Disease that disrupts insulin production in the body, screws up your metabolism and other factors?
Can you tell by looking? No.
So please people, don't be so quick to judge the person who uses that pickup zone or handicapped space. Things are not always what they seem.
