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May 2, 2006 Okay, before I start, I know that the scooters at the grocery store are for disabled and elderly customers. But everytime I go to the grocery store I see a person with rolls of fat riding on the scooters. Sometimes being overwieght is due to medical conditions, but there is no excuse for not using legs to walk around. The scooters give people who don't want to walk an excuse not to. I will admit, like I have in past articles, that I am overweight and pregnant. I am very pregnant (39 weeks) but I still walk around every day for the health of my baby and myself. I have seen other pregnant women use the scooters and I feel sad for them. Walking is one of the best excercises for birth preparation. The scooters take up half the aisle. When they stop a person has to wait for the individual to get the item and then move before anyone else can get to that shelf. If it was someone who needed the scooter, I would not mind; I mind the people who are too lazy to walk, even though they can. This nation has a big problem. I have seen elderly men and women walking with canes pushing their carts down an aisle, and right behind them was an overwieight man or woman riding in one of the scooters. That man or woman should give the scooter up for the person with the cane. But they never do. I have seen a woman so out of shape she had to lean on a cart to get to the scooter-this is not a medical problem, or the person would be in a wheelchair-this is laziness taken to a fault.
As a nation all of us need to start walking. Since
the invention of the automobile, Americans have been
walking less and less-and Americans have been getting
larger and larger. Get off your butt and walk
America. You can start at the grocery store and leave
the scooters for people who really need them.
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