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

If all you needed was the space to get buggy or car seat out why didn’t you just park further away? There are always several unoccupied bays that can be used.

The P&C parking bays seem to bring out the worst in people.

I meant in terms of the walk to the supermarket, this comes up time again wher epeople think they are close to the front of the shop for 'child safety' to get into the shop. There are some car parks that put them at the back.

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

Child locks should be on to stop a child opening the door into another car. Not sure why that’s so confusing.

If this is how you manage day to day interactions which are not important, havent harmed you in any way but you react with aggression and violence (in front of your children), then you do need to think about getting help for anger management

What you have said there really isnt funny but I think you seem to think it is.

If a man had done what you had done, he would be viewed as having 'red flags' all over him.

Maybe because posters are quite rightly pointing out that it is not a good idea to confront people, especially when they are pregnant. Thankfully for the OP, she knows that was not the best thing to do, and is reflecting on that.

The space provides the safety. When you're getting a baby/toddler into a pram, it's much safer to do that down the side of your vehicle where there isn't moving traffic than behind your vehicle

I wouldn't even feel bad about it. So many people swan through life so selfishly and it goes unchecked. Yeah she might not give a shit but she may also have gone home after the argument and reflected on it and realised she'd been an arse. As for your son, it sounds like he wasn't privvy to much of it so I wouldn't worry. Sometimes our parents lose their temper and it wasn't exactly for a poor reason IMO. People who drive like idiots are the worst.

Give yourself a break now @General90 Step away from the keyboard and MN and have a good time playing with your DC.

I honestly think the hormones for quite a few women in pregnancy (& for some women even during their regular cycle) are genuinely an excuse for behaving a bit irrationally. I’ve never, ever felt like I did when pregnant with my second in terms of the degree to which I was sad or angry about things. It was actually a little scary and not something I’d experienced with my first. You shouldn’t have done it and you know that. Hopefully now you’ve recognised the extent to which your hormones are making you react differently than you normally would you’ll be more aware of that going forward and less likely to act on it and do something worse that might get you into trouble.

You sound utterly deranged.

They're not about child safety for whoever said that. Its simply about space

YABU. You were at a supermarket ffs. Should've just egged her car...

It’s not about the walk; it’s about the extra space around the car.

Child locks should be on when you’re getting a child out of a car? Make it make sense :s

They are bigger spaces deliberately to allow extra room for EXACTLY these kinds of things.

Don’t worry about it and move on. It does really wind me up when people take child and parent spaces, especially considering our situation which is an autistic toddler who can elope or have a sudden meltdown, and it is difficult to walk further with him. No dla yet, and even then they don’t just give out blue badges. People just don’t think about others.

Exactly. Someone disabled trumps someone with a baby under every situation AND no matter what people think it’s not always obvious who has a disability

It's nothing to do with walking, it's more about being able to open your door wide enough to lift a baby/toddler out of their car seat and strap them back in safely 🙄

OP I hear you and I get wound up too by people's sheer arrogance that their needs trump everyone else's. I don't know why you're being piled on but next time I think for your own health you need to let it go

Not In every instance. Someone who is disabled, whether they have a blue badge or not, is really not an arsehole for parking in a convenient space.

I get more annoyed with people calling them "mother and baby" spaces than I do by people using them incorrectly.

I wouldn’t start an argument in a shop over it but honestly I’ve been very tempted a few times, it really annoys me! I have a young baby and those spaces are bigger to make it easier to wrestle a child in & out, plus pram etc. The amount of times I’ve seen a sole adult park in them and then stroll into the shop is ridiculous.

Probably not the right thing to say but you did nothing wrong, IMO. I'm sick of the selfish attitudes that invade our society currently and people parking in baby and parent spaces really, really p*es me off.

She shouldn't be allowed to do as she pleases to the detriment of others without somebody telling her about herself. Especially with the reckless driving you mentioned.

Have several claps from me. 👏👏👏

No, you're missing the point. It's hard to have enough room to get out of my small car in a parking space because everyone is choosing large SUV's and land rovers. Not because golfs need to be 20cm bigger. Most cars on the roads now are monstrous and nothing more than Chelsea tractors.