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

LOL, LTH

Sheesh, these threads, they go on forever.

Can you find nothing else to moan about? Its a parking space! Get over yourselves, acting as if people are taking YOUR space to get at you personally. Maybe you should simply consider yourself lucky that you do not NEED a space like a disabled driver does. Why don't you just park further away where there are more empty spaces? You might have a child but you still have the use of your legs!

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

Do you know??...

I think there must be something wrong with me...

#I have 4 kids, aged between 3months and 8 yrs but if i can't get a P&T space I just use anoher space.

Yes...you know all those other spaces that fill the carpark.

The ones without little pictures on the floor.

I use one of those.

Shocking really.

cant believe you have dared start this!

started my own thread about this ages ago. haven't dared post since!
i know they're not a right, they're a priviledge etc etc but i just wish shoppers would respect the fact mums/parents/carers find those spaces really useful.
i'm not sure relocating them is the answer, one of the reasons they are so useful is that you don't have to carry large baby and various bags across a busy car park to the trolley stand.

Rachmumoftwo - I agree with your dh about the baby changing being in the ladies.

I only use the M&B spaces when the store is not busy, when it is busy I don't even bother trying to get a M&B space I drive straight to the far end of the car park where there is usually lots of empty spaces and I can easily get my dc's out.

I think there could be reasons for someone to use the M&B spaces if they didn't have children, for example an elderly person without a disabled badge may have a lot more difficulty walking from the far end of the car park than I do with 2 dc's. It doesn't really bother me, if someone feels they need a space right near the entrance then fine, I'm happy to walk across the car park.

By zippitippitoes on Mon 23-Apr-07 08:51:20
oopsy daisy was it worth it?

presumably you had yo take the children in and out of the car twice in order to get your space once you had the other woman removed from it?

on the scale of daily worry surely not getting a P&T space must rank around 0

AMEN

In Ireland, some stores have spaces reserved for pregnant women, which I think is fab.
My husband has a moan about calling the spaces mother & baby spaces, rather than parent & child parking, which I agree is a fair point. He also moans about mother and baby changing rooms, and the fact that changing units are often in the ladies.

I think that it's worth remembering that disabled badge holders are allowed to park on double-yellow lines where it is 'safe' to do so. Presumably they could exert this privilege at the supermarket if all their spaces are full?

P & T spaces being abused does annoy me but not as much as disabled spaces being abused or appearing to be abused, by able-bodied people. My father has got a blue badge and a genuine limited mobility range so it is frustrating when spaces appear to be occupied by Colin Jackson imitators who get out of their cars and race off .

oopsy daisy was it worth it?

presumably you had yo take the children in and out of the car twice in order to get your space once you had the other woman removed from it?

on the scale of daily worry surely not getting a P&T space must rank around 0

There are ALWAYS tons of disabled spaces at my local supermarket - mainly because the M&B spaces are taken up by people who don't have a disabled badge parking in them - and yes they are mainly old people - and mainly they park in them and leave their spouses in the car and go shopping.

Not budging on this one, it's wrong. Not just for mums and babies but for the legitimately disabled, who get (a) a bad press and (b) sometimes can't park in the disabled zones because some old people think old inevitably means 'disabled'.

2shoes - and the said old biddies always seem fairly sprightly yes, it's not the end of the world but it's not like there is a shortage of disabled spaces and they are NEARER the store. It just makes no sense.

Again with the disabled people comments on the M&B threads.

rather annoying it decends into this every time.

the answer is clearly to provide M&B spaces - or spaces which are defined by a larger area to allow opening of car doors to get out child - at the back of the car park under shelter to allow parents to properly waterproof their children.

after all those with a disability have a badge which they can show for the disabled spaces. in lieu of the supermarkets actually policing M&B spaces there is no solution to this problem.

whomovedmychocolate omg how tragic an old biddie (most likely a disabled one) parked in a p&t space.
what ever next.......................

It may help if Tesco etc said the places were for parents with children actually with them, rather than for cars displaying a sticker. I have seen staff in uniform using the spaces in my local store with no children with them! Wish I had complained, but rather exhausted from trailing 2 dds round Tesco for an hour and a half- stress!

My pet peeve is people who take their partners and children (who are most often over five) to the supermarket, take the last M&B space and then leave kids/partner in car while they shop.

Hellloooo couldn't you have parked anywhere if you were going to do that?

Oh and at our Sainsburys the M&B and disabled are next to each other and all the old biddies park in the M&B and the mums are too bloody nice to return the compliment - so we have to brave the traffic in the main car park.

last summer i was sooo annoyed when woman in 4 by 4 with no kids parked in last m&b space in our tescos. i pulled up behind her, blocking her into the space and asked her politely if she knew it was a parent and child space. her response was that she had a dog in the back and this was the only space in the car park that was in the shade! (wft she was doing bringing her dog to tescos i'll never know)
anyway i left my car blocking her in, took my 2 kids into tescos and told the customer services, who made an announcement over the tannoy informing 'the driver of vehicle registration XXX XXXX that they were parent and child spaces, not woman and dog spaces and could she come and move her car'!!
she came and moved it and i had the space!!
tee hee
tbh tescos seems worse than everywhere else - i do my shopping at sainsburys now and hardly ever struggle for a mums and tots space!

That pisses me off soooooo much. Some days I wonder why I bother even trying to park in them as I end up so pissed off that I have a rampage through Tesco in a bad mood.

I tried to politly(ish) have it out with someone once and just got a heap of abuse from the 4 young (orange, pikey) girls who were in the car.

I had a permit badge for the parent-spaces spaces at my local Tescos.... I think I got to use it once. I used to have to fold myself almost in half to get my dd in her carseat in the back of my car. I got used to it but it doesn't mean to that that's it's right.

I saw a lady getting out her car at the same time as me in a M&B space so I said "excuse me I think these spaces are for people with children" and she said "it don't say you have to have 'em with you, does it".

It does actually but I was lost for words and didn't say anything else! Every time I go there I see at least 2 cars without children in these spaces and there is a parking attendant who ignores it

No, no, no, no, no! I see it all the time and it REALLY annoys me! Yesterday we had the pleasure of seeing some big, fat middle-aged man waltz out of his big, empty car parked bang outside the front door as we headed off for the distant end of the car park. Some people may think it's petty to get annoyed at such a thing, but it's genuine pain to try and manouvere a two-stone toddler out the back of a car when you can't even open the door fully and walking miles to entrance with him on your hip when you are pregnant with an achy back isn't nice either.

Maybe all those annoyed by this can start a vigilanty group. Print up some posters to do with being lazy, inconsiderate/breaking rules etc and slap 'em on the offending windscreens I say! Or, better still, supermarkets should have a policy for making people who have unfairly taken childrens spaces come and move their cars, anouncing the number-plate on the tannoy etc. That would soon stop them !

Oh what a business idea - drive thru supermarket! GENIUS!