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

Oh don't beat yourself up, it happens. In future, I would just report them to security inside the shop and get them to call out their registration across the tannoy.

She's pregnant. Sheesh. Did no one have pregnancy volatility?

Oh back off Gandhi. Pregnancy hormones can make women emotionally volitile. The OP KNOWS she shouldn't have.

It is about the size of the spaces. In my local supermarket the car park is generally fairly busy so never a "quiet corner" with extra space to park. So only option for space to easily get the babies/toddlers into the car is the parent/child spaces. So to save my back and injury to my children these spaces are needed.

Secondly the parent/child spaces are near the trolleys which means I can get a trolley whilst still seeing my children in the car and bring the trolley to the car to load the children into. So for safety I am not happy to walk away from my car (my toddlers can now unbuckle their seat belts) to fetch a trolley when I can't see them.

Thirdly parent and child spaces have direct access the the footpath so I can walk my toddler safely and not across a busy carpark. Maintaining our safety.

Also for those saying about disability in this the man whom park in the last parent/child space parked next to an empty disabled bay (so not disabled).

I think this is a wake up call - you can't behave like this, is there a reason you are so angry?

Honestly if this thread written by an elderly (non-disabled person) who got on a bus and wasn't able to sit in the priority seating because strapping young men were sat there there would be outrage. No one would be saying "those seats aren't protected in law, just a curtesy" "don't be so entitled" etc.

For a parenting forum there is such a consistent lack of empathy, consideration and compassion for mothers of young children.

Completely see why you'd be annoyed, this would wind me up too (also currently hormonal pregnant...but would irritate me even if I wasn't!)

Agree with PP though, she's clearly an arrogant arsehole who will continue to be one regardless of such confrontation...hopefully karma exists!

Please don't excuse your disgraceful behaviour on MH, hormones or pregnancy. It's an insult

Forgive yourself, u were irritated and hormonal. Let it go. The lady shouldn't have parked on child bay

Parent and child spaces aren't protected, they're just helpful. You need to speak to your medical professionals if you're getting this 'hormonal'. It's not normal

Doesn't make sense.

If it's not the distance to the shop, but how wide the spaces were then why were you shouting at him about how hard it was to carry your children across the carpark with your toddler walking?

The problem is that parents have developed the mentality that they are entitled to parent and child spaces and you / we are not. It is nothing like disabled spaces.

This. You gave her a well deserved mouthful. Stop beating yourself up, OP, and just tell your kid that shit happens.

You would cause someone damage (to their property) when you have had no harm caused to you physically, or emotionally and your property hasnt been damaged?

You think thats deserved do you?

Do you think your thoughts are a touch out of proportion?

Sorry, wrong thread. Flipping fat fingers.

Surely she should say to customers, the same as any job, "I'm sorry I'm new but I'll go and ask/find someone who can help and I'll know for next time".

If your first reaction to a parking space is to key a car you have issues!

it’s a parking space, if it’s free great. If not park elsewhere. If like the OP you have two adults I’m sure it’s not that hard to find a solution!

So tempting to just key the car. Its what they deserve for being selfish.

Agree to an extent. I just don’t like the attitude of only worrying about whether something affects your own child and not others

I think the Police have got far bigger and better things to worry about than a slanging match in the Supermarket.

Well yes. The OP's son should not worry then.

Two reasons that this tactic doesn’t work my in experience, because you need the space both getting out and getting back in:

• our local supermarkets have constantly busy car parks, its full from front to back
• the sheer inability of some British drivers to park without a reference car. You could park in the farthest reaches of the quietest car park in the country and some muppet will have taken the park beside you, ignoring the rows of empty spaces, by the time you return.

Are you the parking attendant for the store? If not, don’t challenge people about P&C spaces. They’re only an added benefit from the store, you’re not legally entitled to them.

You're not very bright, are you? It's not (just) about the distance.

To be fair to the poster, that kind of thing does go on, as it does to cars wrongly parked in disabled spaces and parking on pavements. Some people are not just intolerant but they're vindictive too.

Oh, so what? Hundreds pass through every day; if that's the most interesting and memorable thing someone ever saw, they need to get a life!