A Veteran Asked A Pregnant Woman To Give Up Her Spot In A Grocery Store Parking Lot, But She Wouldn’t Do It
by Matthew Gilligan

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There are really no winners when you have a disagreement between a pregnant woman who’s about to give birth and a veteran who fought for our country.
We want to support both of them!
But the pregnant woman who wrote this story on Reddit thought she was doing the right thing by not bowing down to a veteran who wanted her parking spot.
Was she wrong?
Read her story and see what you think!
AITA for not giving my parking spot to a veteran?
“At my local grocery store, there are parking spots designated for pregnant/ new moms and veterans.
I’m about 32 weeks pregnant with twins, or 7 months for those of you who don’t speak pregnant. I had to go to the grocery store and as I was pulling up, I noticed one of those spots open and took it.
Well…
As I was getting out of my car another car pulled up and told me I couldn’t park there because it was for veterans. I said it was for pregnant women and veterans, and I was one of those 2 so I could park there.
Guy in the car essentially said I didn’t need to park there and he deserved it because he was a vet. He then pointed out some parking spots close by and told me to park there.
I said I was already parked, out of my car and well within my right to park in a spot designated for both of us, and it wasn’t my fault I got to it first.
I gestured to the parking spots he did and said he could park there, and walked around his car to enter the store.
Jeez…
As I was walking in, a guy who heard the interaction told me I should have just moved and that he fought for our country, I could have given up the spot, and when I walked by the man from the car he said I was very rude.
I called my mom on the way home from the grocery store to tell her about the weird experience, and she agreed that I should have just moved, and now I kind of feel like a jerk.
AITA?”
Here’s what people had to say about this on Reddit.
This person said she’s NTA.

Another Reddit user agreed.

This individual spoke up.

Another reader shared their thoughts.

And this person weighed in.

She’s about to have twins and she wasn’t about to give up that spot!
If you liked that post, check out this story about a guy who was forced to sleep on the couch at his wife’s family’s house, so he went to a hotel instead.
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