I know IABU - just lost it over a parent and child space

Assume she didn't have a blue badge! We are allowed to use parent and child spaces if all the disabled spaces are taken.

@General90 stop beating yourself up! I don’t believe for a second no one on here has never over reacted to something minor and only slightly inconvenient. Do not let them convince you there is something wrong with you, the fact you feel bad about it shows that you must be a pretty considerate/kind person in general.

I would have said something too.

I have been known to say to someone parked in a P&C parking space with no child “I think you forgot your child in the car” in a little pas/ag way .. it mortifies my DH but that’s what you get when you marry a Greek/Irish/Española 😂

She was tail-gating you when your husband was driving?

General90 stop beating yourself up pet, bless you.x

AND if you can’t get a parent and child space, it doesn’t give you carte blanche to take a Disabled one! I’m not disabled, I just know/see people who do this and it’s a new level of selfish

The amount of people I have seen take the LAST parent and child space and get out on their own. I know it’s not the end of the world but the selfishness of people really fucks me off, I can’t help but say something sometimes. I just find it hard when I see something that seems to be an injustice.

I once heavily pregnant, with a toddler, had to wait for someone to move their car so I could get into mine because I couldn’t fit between the gap when someone parked next to me in a normal space. And watched a couple about their 50s swan back to their car in a P&C space carrying loads of plants.

Also, if your child is old enough to sit in the car by themself, or your partner is staying in the car with them - you don’t need the space either.

OP, I feel ya - people are bellends

Absolutely 👍🏻 this is what’s needed !
I have 3 children ( all adults now ) one with disabilities ( no mobility issues ) I didn’t really need a spot near the store , what I needed was a wider parking 🅿️ spot near the trolleys and a safe path to the store .

Well, I think being pregnant allows you a lot of lee-way. And someone should tell this woman not to park in a parent and child space when she doesn't have a child with her. Selfish ***

Not unreasonable at all - I get in a rage when people steal disabled spaces and I don't even have pregnancy hormones, just absolute fury at them being such cheeky fucking cunts. Don't feel bad - she was the one who caused the problem and hopefully karma will drop on her from a great height.

Also no amount of forward parking is going to help if, having found a space in a quiet part of the car park (if that’s possible which it might not be), you come back to find people have parked either side of you and you physically can’t get the children in the back. Particularly difficult with twins.

You’re silent on the question of the single man who ignored donimo and walked off. He was wrong to park in the space, right?

Why on earth have you responded to this poster by going on about which way round she may or may not have parked? You’re coming across really badly now. Determined to show no sympathy to someone who’s had a bit of a crap experience in a car park through no fault of their own.

It is when you're pregnant 🤣

Probably as tired as people are of the self-appointed parking czars, I doubt the woman is remotely bothered about the OP's temper tantrum, in fact she's probably enjoying a good laugh about it.

I had a bit of an argument with an older woman in the supermarket car park when she accused me of being lazy because I’d parked in a parent and child space. This was before I’d even got the pushchair out of the car and my 6month old grandson out. I asked her where her blue badge was as she’d parked in a disabled space. She said she didn’t have one but wouldn’t be in the shop long. I bumped into the manager who was a friend, pointed it out to him and left the shop to find her arguing with the guy from the parking company clamping her car 🤣

I don’t imagine for one second you’d have done what you did if everything was a bed of roses for you right now and you were feeling calm in your daily life. It seems to me that there’s a bit of transference going on. Not your finest moment, but you clearly know that. Try to use this as a sign that you need to give yourself a bit of tlc.

For what it’s worth, I’ve never done anything quite on that scale, but as a wheelchair user I have confronted people over taking accessible spaces they don’t need. Most of the time very politely, but there is one I still cringe about when I think of it.

To err is human!

Pregnancy hormones does funny things to us girls. I once had a right go at a lady feeding pigeons at a train station... all I could think of was the germs from the birds and how they might harm my baby. No logic there at all. I would just try and put it to bed. We all have those irrational days.

Life isn’t fair and doesn’t owe you anything and nobody follows the rules. This is what I drill into my kids on a daily. So easy to get caught up in this stuff. Child spaces are just a way of baiting people anyway, they are the same as disabled spaces. Never for the intended.

Meh, you fucked up. Everyone does. Don’t be so hard on yourself and definitely don’t post here for the MN vipers to punish you for it! It’s not the end of the world, please try not to ruminate on this. It’s not worth it.

If it makes you feel a little better, I get triggered when people without children park in Child and Baby spaces.

My youngest child is now 15 so we haven't been parking in them for years now. But that is not the point.

You don't personally attack people, take it up with the store at the absolute most.

You rammed his trolley? Seriously?

Any of us can have a bad day but you knew she was erratic already and probably to be avoided. I also agree with the pp who remarked that with two adults in the car I don't think you should necessarily have been looking to take the last parent and child slot either.
I know why supermarkets have these slots near the front door of their premeses but it would be better for all , particularly the disabled, if they were at the back of the car park and not in prime position.

That is sad to hear@Ella31 . Nobody knows what other people could be going through, when they are venting on them over unimportant things like this.

Thank you, I was genuinely walking like a sideways crab. I appreciate the reply. She was so irrational, I don't think she'd have seen anything that hit her. She kept screaming at me if I had kids I'd get it. The irony is the reason I've spd so early on is I had twins last year who I lost at 30 weeks but my ligaments are screwed 😅 so this pregnancy is killing me. Tbf dh normally does the shop now but I was stuck that day

I actually stopped shopping at Lidl because of this exact issue when I had a young baby. Drove me INSANE. It was like a competition of who can park closest to the shop - not only in the parent child bays but even across the road towards the entrance! They’d just add their cars on to the end of a row even though it was not parking spaces. I complained and a cashier said there was nothing they could really do. So I now go to a totally different supermarket and none of this happens there! I mean probably not a good idea to follow a random person but I totally get your anger! X