To expect people without kids to not park in the M&B spaces at Tesco?

they're alright even.

I think I need a new brain

i leave all 3 of mine as well hatrick.

I can often hear then screaming and fighting from across the carparkl so I know there al right.

No-one would ever steal my kids after hearing the racket they make.

Hatrick...ner ner ner ner ner....I leave all 4 of mine

so do i. the kids are strapped into the car.

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i went shopping on saturday, drove straight to the back of the car park and parked up, got a trolly, put dd3 in it, took my bag, locked the car and walked into the shop. oh it was so so so hard '

I've left my 3 month old in the car to return the trolley.

So shoot me.

why wouldn't you leave 1 year olds unattended in a car (presumably they're strapped in) to go and fetch a trolley? What do you do at petrol stations?

actually when you have 1yr old twins who can't walk and you can't carry both of them and the trolleys are all by the m&b spaces and you don't want to leave your kids unattended in the car yes it is a big deal!

Giddyfeet .

My mum does this, despite the kids now being ten years old. It embarrasses me no end but no amount of pleading on my behalf will get her to park anywhere else. The irony is that our Tesco recently refurbed and now the child car spaces are further away from the entrance than the normal spaces! I think for her it is habit, I can't think what else it could be!!!

can't let the thread die, now, can we?

I called in at Tesco the other day, with ds1 (4) and ds2 (8mths and miraculously asleep). Having both boys with me, it is handy, although obv not essential if I can park close to supermarket entrance to minimise dangers of ds1 throwing himself under a car, and me putting my back out hoiking sleeping ds2 about in his car seat.

So, as I go past the parent and child spaces a woman is walking away from her car, alone, so I wind my window down to point out that "Excuse me, those are P&c spaces, and you don't appear to have any children with you". "They're in the car" she says. "So you don't really need to park there then, do you?" "What difference does it make?" "To me, the difference in how far I have to walk with a potentially unreliable child, and a heavy baby."

I did actually get a space not too far from the store, and ds1 didn't endanger himself at all.

When i finished my shopping I returned to the car to observe a man on his own parking up in a p&c space. I said my piece: "Excuse me, blah blah blah"
He said, "Thank you very much for your advice." I don't know whether I misunderstood him at that point (I thought he was brushing me off), or whether the mild rant that I then embarked upon changed his mind, but he did actually get back in the car and move it! Felt bad about the rant then though.

"You wouldn't expect a car to park in a Lorry/Coach space at a service station, just as you don't expect other people to park in your driveway or block it off".

I did park in the lorry park at a service station once - I was driving round to park and somehow missed the entry for the car park. I hadn't used these services before. I was heading back for the m3 sliproad by this time so I drove into the lorry park as the entrance was on the way and dumped my car there. I wasn't going to drive another 15 miles to find the next service station .

I wouldn't make a practice of it but it was a genuine mistake on my part. Didn't seem to bother the lorry drivers too much - mind there were only about 3 lorries in there and they were at the far end of the concourse.

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I believe that one shopping centre, once clamped everyone who was parked in BB spaces without a badge and fined them. The money then went to chartity

baywatch

Goodness..... I may be wrong but this looks familiar somehow......

I never parked in a M&B bay before I had a baby and I never do now as they are always full. I kind of think they are annoying and unnecessary - see LadyTophamHatt for instructions on how to use a supermarket.

However, here is my idea for disabled parking bays. I think supermarkets are reluctant to enforce them as they would end up fining their own customers. So all the disability charities should get together to create a company whose job it is to enforce correct use of disability bays - the company would then be hired by Tesco and Sainsbury to patrol the supermarkets and fine anyone parked in a disabled bay without a badge. The fines would go directly to the disability charities. So Tesco and others would not look bad for fining their own customers as it would be a third party - but no one could complain about "stealth taxes" or whatever as the money would go directly to disability charities.

I haven't read whole thread, for fear of combusting. (I came close to it after reading, "they don't park in the disabled bays, they steal ours instead")

I say, scrap the whole lot of m&b bays and make them all disabled.

oh, good, this is still going

Oh yayy!!!

I was almost going to start one of these threads myself

Just a short story from my weekend

Dh and I got to Tesco shopping with ds (toddler) so park in the toddler and parent parking. There were quite a few spaces so despite there being two adults and one child in my car I used the space as dh was planning to do some other shopping and I was likey to be back at the car on my own with ds.

Fast forward to shopping (ds starting the beginning of a tantrum and dh saying -' I'll take him out for a walk, you pay and come and meet us at the bench in the park')

I merrily pay and go back to my car, then realised I have NO toddler - oh the shame of loading my car with shopping in the 'parent and toddler space with one woman unloading her toddler looking at me quite unhappily and another car waiting for me to leave as by this point the car park was really busy

I almost shouted out of the window ' I had one when I arrived' but instead just slinked off blushing and feeling bad - but honest I did have one when I arrived and planned to have him when I left.