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Original poster

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

89 replies

Emprexia · 22/04/2007 15:42

What is wrong with people?

There is a HUGE carpark at my Tesco, but only 20 Parent & Child parking spaces.

The amount of people who don't have kids that use them at the busiest times just so they dont have to walk across the carpark gobsmacks me.

i dont mind if they have disabled badges, if there are no spare disabled spaces, then go for it. But just because you're driving a 4x4 that you can't park is no excuse to park in the Parent/Child spaces!!!

OP posts:
sarahlou1uk · 22/04/2007 20:23

My Tesco is the same. If I'm in a M&B space and I see someone pull up and park who has no kids, as they are walking away from the car I tend to shout "Excuse me, you've forgotten something......YOUR KIDS!!!!
When I go to the shops without the kids, I would never dream of parking in one of these spaces. Some people, however, would like to drive around inside the store in their cars.

I think it's about to kick off now so I've said my piece and will now slide off quietly as I don't possess a hard hat!

dueat44 · 22/04/2007 20:10

The other week, a bloke in a new Audi (no kids) parked across TWO parent and child spaces at our local Waitrose. He was obviously afraid of getting it scratched.

WHY didn't I fall on it with a razor blade????

happybiggirl · 22/04/2007 17:29

Message withdrawn

Kaleidoscope · 22/04/2007 17:28
fryalot · 22/04/2007 17:27

bugger, someone got there before me

fryalot · 22/04/2007 17:26

has this thing kicked off yet?

ViscountessPetitLapin · 22/04/2007 17:18

We actually do have a Land Rover, but I am v careful when opening doors!

What winds me up is when you see a car containing a car seat in a P&T space; and then the mother comes out, sans child, and drives off! Bloody cheeky.

Twinklemegan · 22/04/2007 17:11

Hence my plea for proper sized spaces oh noble one.

ViscountessPetitLapin · 22/04/2007 17:10
Grin
ViscountessPetitLapin · 22/04/2007 17:09

Well, I LOVE P&T spaces, if I park in any others I bash the car next to me when I open the Land Rover's door...

2shoes · 22/04/2007 17:08

why can't there be a seperate topic for p & t bays

Saggarmakersbottomknocker · 22/04/2007 16:57

Same here Sparkly.

SparklyGothKat · 22/04/2007 16:53
Twinklemegan · 22/04/2007 16:53

Blooming heck - not again! My take on it is if they made all parking spaces a proper size with no ridiculous cambers on the car park, put brakes on all the trolleys, and had designated zones for pedestrians, then P&T spaces wouldn't be needed.

NormaStanleyfletcher · 22/04/2007 16:52

Has this thing kicked off yet?

SparklyGothKat · 22/04/2007 16:51

just get rid of P&T spaces and make them all disabled (that my take on it anyway)

Saggarmakersbottomknocker · 22/04/2007 16:48

Just get rid of P&T spaces then that'll be the end of it.

Then again don't - P&T threads always liven up a Sunday afternoon!

Indith · 22/04/2007 16:18

Oh good I've just got ds settld for a feed I could do with a good thread to keep me entertained!

misdee · 22/04/2007 16:14

[misde goes to make a coffee and settles down to watch]

Hopeitwontbebig · 22/04/2007 16:13

Sorry, fairly new here....

TheWoman · 22/04/2007 16:08

Ah, another P&T parking thread!

Hopeitwontbebig · 22/04/2007 16:06

Grrrrrrrrr it drives me mad. I see it almost every time I go to Tesco. I have two children and a 3rd on the way. Even when I was heavily pregnant with the 1st I wouldn't have dreamt of parking in a M&B space. My DH has a paralysed arm but isn't eligable for a Disable badge , he therefore struggles if he is shopping, but he wouldn't dream of parking in these bays without the kids.

I'm one of those people though that gets all irate but doesn't actually do anything about it..... actually, I have a very vague memory of a lady taking the last M&B space which I was going to park in, I was so cross when she jumped out of her car and pranced into the shop with no children..... I shocked myself and asked her why she'd parked there. She snapped at me 'I'm collecting my children, they're inside Tesco' AS IFFFFFFFFFFFF!!

Original poster
Emprexia · 22/04/2007 16:00

rabbleraiser - true, a lot of stores they aren't easy to spot.

But at my tesco its a whole deisgnated section of the carpark to OS spaces, its seperated from the rest by the one-way system, painted in white chevrons and signposted to death, lol.

These people really have to have intended to park in those spaces to be in that section of the carpark.

OP posts:
joash · 22/04/2007 16:00

Disabled spaces in private car parks are not compulsory!!!

WigWamBam · 22/04/2007 15:58

A disabled spaces row and a parent and child spaces row at the same time and in the same topic.

Oh joy, oh rapture.

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