Woman Receives An Old Box From Her Mother With Her Childhood Things, Finds The Most Embarrassing One

2 things: 1) The handicap symbol looks like a person sitting on a potty all on its own, no need to be using the handicapped stall in the bathroom for that connection to be made in an imaginative mind. 2) A mom with a potty training child will often use the handicapped stall for the extra room it affords, which can reinforce the connection that seems was already made.

In the UK the ones I know (admittedly not a huge sample size) are totally separate lavatories, not a stall within the normal loos. Perhaps that is why it is difficult for some people, presumably from a different country, to see how this would come about. A child would generally be taken into loos with the female or male symbols on, unless there was a disabled person involved in the visit. Sorry badly worded but it is rather late.

It may be different in different countries or whatever, but in all the multi-stall bathrooms I've ever seen, the outer door has both symbols (gender + handicap to show there's a handicap stall) and then the stall itself isn't marked in any way. Everyone just knows it's the bigger one with the metal bar.

It really isn't right to just let kids run around unsupervised in shops. Children do need to learn how to behave in public.

There may have been other factors that caused this woman to lose her temper that day. She might also have had a condition that affected how she dealt with people. The OP said she looked angry before she confronted her, so something serious may have happened that caused her to finally explode with anger when faced with a stroppy five year old. How she handled the child wasn't right but we don't know how life was treating her. One person wrongly picked on her for her size and she was disabled - we know she had parked in a disabled bay and she said she had a disease. Might have been life-threatening for all we know, maybe that day she received terrible news. Do I believe the woman was polite? No, but I don't find the whole story hangs together that well. However, the OP is a comic artist. She is telling stories based on her life to amuse. I think mis-remembering the facts, along with tweaking the story to make it funny, would be unsurprising

Her mother had vented 'in passing' she wasn't commenting on this woman. The OP said she thought the woman was abusing the system because she saw someone park in the relevant area yet she didn't use 'the potty'. When challenged the woman, apparently already angry, said she had a disease. Someone else said that obesity was curable by walking. The obesity aspect is actually irrelevant - bar for the fact that someone, at least, made the assumption that an obese person caused their disability when the reverse if often the case. Why was a five year old on her own long enough to start such a kerfuffle?

If she was just angry about the person abusing the system, why mention that she was obese at all?

It was a mistake, but not innocent. A kid trying to tell an adult where to use the bathroom is not innocent. It’s a nuisance that the parents should have been monitoring and instructing better.

But that's the point Karen is making - that people shouldn't assume.

You say a lot of dumbass trollish things MM, but that was one of your dumbest. SMH

Oh, and some of the meds prescribed increase appetite. It isn't as simple as you clearly are.

Pain and fatigue conditions cause people to be less mobile and weight gain is a common side effect even with a reduced diet. There are so many of these. Autoimmune conditions that cause mobility issues thus leading to weight gain eg Lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis - there are over a hundred different types of arthritis. Steroids are a treatment that cause weight gain. Fibromyalgia is a very problematic condition that causes widespread pain and fatigue. Having a genuinely bad back makes a person less mobile. Osteoarthritis, worked out too much when young and it knackers your joints making a person less mobile and causes weight gain. These are all sadly common conditions.