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... to expect people who use parent & baby car parking spaces to have children with them?

465 replies

fryalot · 05/02/2007 15:11

Or am I the only who gets fed up of waiting for a space because they are all filled with lazy b***ds who can't be bothered to walk an extra yard?

OP posts:
IntergalacticWalrus · 08/02/2007 15:22

Go ahead misdee...

3andnomore · 08/02/2007 15:21

Vicky, lets hope you are a troll and just taking the piss eh!

misdee · 08/02/2007 15:19

can i swear yet?

IntergalacticWalrus · 08/02/2007 15:14

The threads on the board go round and round
round and round
round and round

The threads on the board go round and round
All day long.......

Jimjams2 · 08/02/2007 15:12

nah what goes around comes around

Jimjams2 · 08/02/2007 15:11

Dunno but I am definitely going to try and get a disabled bay outside my house to piss off as many able bodied as possible

Winnestein did you get my email link to my silly councils silly rules?

TheArmadillo · 08/02/2007 15:10

"So I just park in the disabled places now! "

I really really hope you are not serious about that bit.

If you are please read the entire thread.

Aloha · 08/02/2007 15:09

Is this thing kicking off again?

Jimjams2 · 08/02/2007 15:09
Jimjams2 · 08/02/2007 15:09
Vicky75 · 08/02/2007 15:08

OMG!!! Since becoming a mum this is my number one bug bear!!! It's like I've become the car park monitor & I've even found myself reporting it to the supermarket customer services when there's car parked there without child seats in!!! What's happening to me-I've become a grumpy old woman!
So I just park in the disabled places now!

yellowrose · 07/02/2007 22:36

custardo - did i say you had said anythng derogatory about disabled parking ????

i was just trying to say that talking about disabled parking on a thread that is about another sort of parking isn't that illogocal. it is a comparison.

bumblebeee · 07/02/2007 21:18

Agree with mellow, surely we have exhausted this thread now!!

jenwa · 07/02/2007 20:45

Smellen - must have had some thing to help drive as cant imagine driving with just one arm. I bet you felt bad, I prob would have too. Although do you need a wider space if you only have one arm? Maybe harder to unload trolley etc.

hitchcock- thats awful, the shop should have at least done something there. What a tosser to do that. Can see why they did not have children!!!

winestein · 07/02/2007 20:19

Sorry Mellowma. I tried that one. It didn't work.

Forgot to say: JJ, yes got your email that night and responded. I assume that you didn;t get the reply then and will resend later

winestein · 07/02/2007 20:17

I know HMC ... but in my defence Mi Lud, I didn't intend to knock it off and I think that is the point in law as to whether it is criminal damage or not... plus I could have got murder reduced to manslaughter with my hormones, possibly even institutionalised due to diminished responsibility, so in fact he got off really lightly...... (I believe the dimensions you seek JimJams are 2400mm by 4800mm).

Additionally, can I sign your petition please JJ as I am also a brunette born under the sign of Capricorn

margo1974 · 07/02/2007 19:45

kaboom!

ItsMeMellowma · 07/02/2007 19:34

hello....sorry this thread is finished now....empty......gone.....nothing more to be said......

Smellen · 07/02/2007 19:18

Haven't had time to read all this thread, but earlier this week I went to the supermarket...

The car in front was waiting for the last Parent & Child space, and I was about to drive past when I noticed that there was no kid or child seat in the car. So, feeling righteous about it, I waited until the guy had parked, then as he got out, started with "Excuse me, you do know that's for cars with children..."

I was stopped in my tracks as he got out, turned round, and clearly had only one arm. So the rest of the sentence sort of died in my throat.

Of course he totally blanked me, and I wanted the earth to swallow me up.

I have no problem with a driver with a mobility problem using the parent & child spaces if the disabled spaces are all taken, but having seen friends with toddlers & new babies struggling to get toddler into trolley, baby in sling etc., anyone without a genuine reason for using them should be a bit less selfish.

ItsMeMellowma · 07/02/2007 18:13

Right Thats IT!!!!

We know ..... Its Naughty.... Its Not Good... Please please please.... can we all stop this whining on about bloody well parking spaces...pretty please

3andnomore · 07/02/2007 17:36

Spoo, I think common sense would tell one that the right age to stop using them is, when a child has some roadsense, is not likely to run off or anything (so, age isn't the only factor)...most children will probably be ready for this around 4, but in a child with sn this could off course be later, if ever.
It really depends on teh child I suppose...my 2 1/2 year old is pretty good and it's safe enough to walk across a carpark with him, now that my ms is 4....now, the 4 year old was a complete nightmare at 2 1/2 and it wouldn't have been safe.

Spoo · 07/02/2007 17:25

I have a toddler and a baby so I can appreciate why people get so annoyed. It is bad enough trying to shop with two kids let alone struggling to get car doors open. and negotiating idiots driving at the rate of knots across the car park. My question is this - at what age does a child stop being a child. I see parents with 9 / 10 year olds parking in these spaces and wonder they whether they really feel that they need the extra space or to be closer to the shop. What is the right age to stop?

nannynickers · 07/02/2007 17:23

In the town where I work the shopping centre has a floor dedicated to mother and child parking unfortunately to get in OR out you have to negotiate TWO flights of stairs with no lifts! Then when you return to the car and drag your buggy up TWO flights of stairs you have to walk across the level bump down ANOTHER TWO flights to pay for your ticket before draging BACK up the afore mentioned stairs!

The sentiment is great in view of the mother and child parking but surely anyone with more than 2 brain cells could have worked out that this might have proved to be a problem!

ti · 07/02/2007 17:17

its a sinple fact that both P&C spaces along with Disabled spaces are there for the simple reason that people falling into these 2 categories generally need a little more space getting in and out of their cars and its too difficult squeezing in & out of the normal spaces. You circle round trying to find them in the first place and often wait for them because you dont want to scratch the cars adjacent to you. Those people who use them and dont need them are usually crappy drivers with cars that they THINK look great but are completely impractical as they can't actually park them! OR ignorant, selfish people who cant bear the thought that someone else is getting 'a perk' they're not. Odds on these are the same people who you would find with plates piled ludicrouly high at an 'all you can eat' place. Knobs.

bumblebeee · 07/02/2007 16:55

LOL, I'm sure that's another debate altogether! I don't think the Capricorns would be too happy....