New father prods East Coast Sobeys about mothers-only parking spot
STRATFORD, P.E.I. — A father who was irked at a parking spot for new mothers at a P.E.I. grocery store has successfully prodded Sobeys to include new dads too.
On Monday, Justin Simard was on his way to drop off his nine-month-old son Charlie at his aunt’s when he stopped at the Sobeys in Stratford to pick up some baby food.
“I pulled into Sobeys and I saw they had new parent parking, which my wife and I have used many times in the past, and when I was getting out of the car there was a woman getting her children out of her car… and she gave me a really dirty look,” he said.
“I was confused, and I pulled my son out of the car and suddenly her whole demeanour changed and everything was fine … Then I looked over at the sign and saw that this isn’t new parent parking, it’s new mother parking.”