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to find people who use Parent & Child spaces are mainly lazy?

32 replies

pointydog · 08/05/2007 17:37

Well?

I mean, ok, you might need a tiny bit more space getting small child into car seat etc.

But I think the main factor here is laziness.

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ScoobyDooooo · 08/05/2007 19:56

Actually in our morrisons car park they are not only by the door but also all the way up the other side of the car park, i don't mind parking far away but i do like the space to open the door to get kids in & out of car seats, sometimes you get an idiot who thinks it is fone to park that close to your car you could not swing a cat

lucykate · 08/05/2007 19:55

at my local tesco the p&t spaces are not closest to the shop, the disabled ones are the closest. which is the way it should be, i may have kids but we can all walk.

ThomCat · 08/05/2007 19:52

The ones with a child who is in high school - yes - lazy feckers.

I only had kids so I could park near the shops. And had a doble bonus when she was born disabled and get to use disabled bays now as well, oh ad I get a free car and loads of other touches!

BaffledByBabyTights · 08/05/2007 19:51

I love in Germany whre P&T spaces are a rarity, and I really miss them - esp with 3 kamikaze children under 4 years old. Once, when I was hugely pg with dd3, a german slammed my open car door into my back as I was strugglnig to get ds2 into his seat and had encroached onto her space.

Nemo2007 · 08/05/2007 19:51

Oh definetly lazy that and trying to stop DS swinging the door open on to other peoples cars and also to get both the girls in. I am not bothered if there isnt a P+T space but do prefer it as tends to be a trolley around aswell then!

FiveFingeredFiend · 08/05/2007 19:49

convenience i would have thought is a better term.

HenriettaHippo · 08/05/2007 19:49

pointy dog, surely you are joking?! Maybe not... You should see me trying to lug great big 8 month old baby out of car, and keeping under 3 year old under control in the car park. And that's before there's any shopping. Thank god for child and parent spaces.

What is really lazy is the people who park in them who don't have a child at all... . I think there was a thread about this not long ago, don't want to open up that can of worms again.... Ha ha.

whomovedmychocolate · 08/05/2007 19:48

Actually the only place you can get a child seat trolley is in the P&C parking in my supermarket.

So YES I am being lazy, not to want to haul a 24 pound baby in a car seat across the car park to get a trolley and then back again (because I'm responsible enough not to leave a trolley in the wrong spot).

WK007 · 08/05/2007 19:48

YABU - at our local Asda the P&T spaces are a fair bit further away than the nearest normal spaces but they're to the side of the store so no cars come down there except the ones to use those spaces and there's a walkway to the shop. So it's definitely not for the lazy but it damn well keeps kids safe. Especially when everyone round here drives a 4x4 or a van, speeds, and can't be bothered to look what's in front of them.

TheDuchessOfNorksBride · 08/05/2007 19:44

Ooh Aitch, I know how that feels. I've had to climb into my car from the boot before now. Mind you, I drive Landrovers and usually get boxed in by little old ladies in teeny tiny cars that just can't park. .

pointydog you are deffo being unreasonable. More children get hit by cars in car parks than on public highways, so anything that makes it a bit safer to get them all in and out isn't lazy, it's sensible.

It's only lazy when someone parks in one and then hops out with their one and only 10yo child. Lazy arses. And I tell 'em.

AitchTwoOh · 08/05/2007 19:27

er. so in answer to the OP you are being unreasonable...

AitchTwoOh · 08/05/2007 19:27

well, at the risk of turning this into a 4x4 rant, i came back to my (non P&T) space at a shopping centre this afternoon to find myself sandwiched in between two of the sodding things.

I had to park dd's buggy and ask a stranger to keep an eye on her while i crept into the car and backed out so that i could open the doors and get her into her car seat.

I blocked the lane while i was getting her buggy down and didn't much care, tbh as they don't offer P&T parking. why the FUCK would people be so SELFISH as to block people in like that? if you're struggling to get out of your monster truck, then MOVE. (house, preferably, so i never have to see your stupid arse vehicle again.)

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pointydog · 08/05/2007 19:18

They are a con. We should all be able to use them.

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unknownrebelbang · 08/05/2007 17:53

but I was happy to be lazy if they were provided.

unknownrebelbang · 08/05/2007 17:52

Lol. Yep, I needed the space more when I was pregnant than I did carting three little ones around.

Gobbledigook · 08/05/2007 17:52

Not lazy. I find it easier if I've got all 3 with me (6, 4, 2) because I don't have to negotiate the car park with them all.

For me opening doors isn't an issue anymore as we have sliding ones.

Tbh, I hardly use them now anyway - I tend to go shopping when the kids are at school/nursery.

fryalot · 08/05/2007 17:51

at the end of the day, the supermarkets put them there to make things easier for us lazy mums so we will shop there. It works.

Fillyjonk · 08/05/2007 17:51

pmsl

yes i am lazy and proud

Megglevache · 08/05/2007 17:50

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FioFio · 08/05/2007 17:50

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saintmaybe · 08/05/2007 17:50
Grin
misdee · 08/05/2007 17:49

pmsl.

fryalot · 08/05/2007 17:48

lazy? moi?

Blandmum · 08/05/2007 17:48

Norty

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pointydog · 08/05/2007 17:48

har!

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