To get SO SO SO angry about P&T spaces....

[Wilkie]

I know, I know it has been done to death but honestly, some peopl are just fucking pig-ignorant.

Pulled up at Asda at the same time as a roughish middle aged couple, two P&T spaces available, I pulled into one, they pulled into another. Another car drove past with a young couple in and a tiny baby, looking for a space but obv couldn't park there as we had just taken last spaces.

Middle aged couple got out, stared at me as though to say 'so?' so I said 'I take it you have invisible children then??'

He said 'yeah actually' and sauntered off.

TWAT.

[policywonk]

Good on you. Here, have a Brownie point.

[Carmenere]

Get over it, there are MUCH more important things in the world.

[Wilkie]

Thank you

Honestly, they make my blood boil!!!!!!!!

[Wilkie]

Carmenere - you are right but I just think people are so rude, aggressive and ignorant nowadays. It's just a sad state of society.

[WanderingTrolley]

I really don't get why people get so angry about this.

Why did your blood boil?

[2Happy]

Weekend shopping does bring out the worst in people. I spent a hilarious 1/4 hour sat in the car with ds2 while dh went to Morrison's with ds1 yesterday. Saw a couple having the biggest barny, ignoring their 3 kids, only broke off their arguement when a seagull shat on the woman's shoulder, he took off his top all chivalrous for her, then went straight back to the arguement.

[milkymill]

Well done you!!!! These people are so bloody arrogant

[Carmenere]

Yes they are but there is no need for you to upset yourself. It is a waste of time and energy, play with your dc's instead.
Sorry if I sound flippant but a) it has been done to death and b) it is a waste of energy to be upset about it.

[SKYTVADDICT]

Well done Wilkie. I have been practicing my glare but haven't caught anyone yet. How rude of that man! Think all Supermarkets should be handing out fines.

[Wilkie]

WanderingTrolley - would you park in a disabld bay? No, hopefully not.

P&T are there for people, like me, with young kids who don't want to bang other cars with their doors when struggling to get child out of carseat, lock car, hold handbag...whilst it chucked down with rain.

There was a normal space nearby they could have used but no, they are just fucking ignorant.

They would be first to kick up a fuss if I dented their door with my car door!......Hmmmmmm now there's a point!

[Wilkie]

Carmenere - I have PMT

[WanderingTrolley]

Sorry, still not getting it.
I'm not the daintiest of pixies, but I've never had bother getting children and car seats in and out of ordinary spaces.

Wilkie - chocolate. Now. It will help.

[southeastastra]

i'm thinking of using them when my ds(6) is with me. he scares me in the car park when walking to the shop. at least babies are usually carried. 6 year olds run off

[oregonianabroad]

Wandering & Carmenere,
I had to crawl over ds1's car seat in order to install ds2 in his seat while it was p*ssing down at tesco today because of the way the idiot next to me had parked and the fact that all the P&T spaces had gone. Agreed, it does not rival the world's most heinous crimes, but well worth a good rant. Well done Wilkie for telling him off -- in the middle of me trying to get ds2 sorted, a middle aged man unloaded his trolley in the last P&T space, whistling (!!!) whilst I struggled. I so wish I had said something to him.

[gess]

volunteer to work with those less fortunate than yourself. You've lost all sense of proportion.

[Dabbles]

lol, omg@op. its terrible when ppl do this

esp when its a 40 yr old bloke in a sports car! arrogant sods!

[barbamama]

Have you tried getting a carseat out of a normal space when 9 months pregnant? Not possible let me tell you. Actually that was a Morrissons too - do they have extra narrow spaces. I'm with you OP - it's obnoxious. Though obviously best to rise above.

[Wilkie]

gess

Ys, I'm glad you've grasped the point of my OP! I will go and work with those less fortunate - that will make it better

[studentmum1]

i'm sorry but my dp and i got a shouted at by a couple who were anrgy we had parked in the P & T without a kid in tow... i stepped out of the car 9 months pregnant and struggling to walk... i told them to feck off! the spaces arn't there because by law they have to provide them, they are there because they are a convenience for parents. Unlike the disabled spaces, which we were not allowed to park in even though i couldn't walk far and still needed a wheelchair when we got inside!

[gess]

Er yes barb I have 3 children so I've fiddled with quite a few car seats in various stages of pregnancy. I have no idea why people find it so difficult.

Might make you realise what's worth getting stressed out about wilkie. Princess spaces in car parks? Not worth the blood pressure.

[Wilkie]

Gess - you don't know me or my life so don't make assumptions I need to work with less forunate people to help me 'understand', I know what to stress about cheers. The OP is a rant, end of.

[barbamama]

I think they should really be parent and child and heavily pregnant women spaces really to be fair to all - I (obviously) would have no problem with a pregnant woman parking in one - particularly as they tend to be closer to the entrance. In fact, I think you should be able to get a temporary disabled badge if you are pg and struggling with SPD or something like that. Gess your supermarkets must be very spacious - I could not get close enough in at either door to get the carseat last week - I had to get back in and find another space.

[WanderingTrolley]

OK, we're all allowed to rant.

I have been known to raise my bp over an apostrophe fgs.

But I fear the reasons for getting so annoyed over P&T parking will forever remain a mystery to me.

[tribpot]

I get equally pissed off about it, Wilkie - and my dh is disabled, so what the f**k am I worrying about P&T spaces for?!?!

It's just so bloody rude. Every time I go to my local Co-op there's some arse in a 44 or a sportscar parked in front of the Co-op, rather than in the car park which is - ooh, 30 seconds' walk from the shop. Why not have a bit of sodding courtesy and naff off out of our spaces? (As I generally say, quite loudly, whilst walking past them). I should point out I normally walk to the Co-op and thus have no need of a parking space of any kind, but that is hardly* the point!

[Wilkie]

Studentmum - I would not be confronting a heavily pg woman!