People who park in child and parent spaces when they don't have kids.

A really straightforward solution to this would be to not bother with them at all. TBH I don't know why shops do.

As always, this isn't about people with medical needs/mobility aids/blue badge pending

That was completely unnecessarily martyring yourself. You had a need for that wider space for a clear medical reason. You would have been entirely justified in using one rather than making yourself walk further on crutches.

This again! There are a thousand threads already on this!!

BB spaces are different to P&C spaces, which are just a curtesy. Holders of BBs are told by supermarkets to use P&C spaces if BB spaces (that have legal requirements) are full, not that you could stop them anyway.

Yep, I’ve done it. When I was struggling to walk on two sticks (zimmer frame at home) and needed to get to the pharmacy at the supermarket. Was too new a problem to qualify for a blue badge, and there was no regular parking near enough the entrance for me to make it. Selfish? Nope. Absolute necessity. I needed it far more than the vast majority of parents.

It is very annoying. I had a really bad accident some time ago, and I would park on the far side of car parks to find enough space to get out of my car (I needed crutches to lever myself out for a while as my car is low).

I never once used a parent space. It’s so selfish to take a space that a parent needs.

Or maybe they’re a calmer more rational person?!

Completely and utterly selfish. People do it all the time at my local Tesco. It’s highly irritating when you genuinely can’t open the door wide enough in a normal space to get your baby /toddler out and then some selfish lazy arsehole uses a parent and child space. Whenever I challenge them, oops they didn’t realise, BS they didn’t realise. No, they aren’t going to collect kids either. Disabled with out a badge? Bollocks. I have seen it so many times, whilst there are disabled spaces. Just selfish morons.
If you aren’t annoyed by this, it’s clearly because it doesn’t effect you, you obviously don’t have babies and/or young children in car seats that you need to lift in and out.

Sorry!! I park in them sometimes if I have my mum with me. No BB (she should have one, but its a long story) so if there is a P&C space free we use it. Easier to help her in/out the car etc.

It never annoyed me when I had young DC though tbh. Just parked further away and factored in poss parking/door opening issues when I bought the car seats. If I couldnt get a baby into a seat in a normal space id have handed my licence back i think 😆

Flippantly comparing things to Nazism is far more bonkers.

I’ve done it at quiet times when I’ve assumed the demand for those spaces would be low such as in the evenings. Which is probably a hanging offence here. But I wouldn’t during the day.

It's annoying and extremely selfish. Same goes for the people who park there with kids but don't actually get out of the car, and people who park there with a teenager (she's my child! It counts!) 🙄

As handy as the spaces are they seem to have encouraged a sense of helplessness amongst some mothers.

If a space is free then great use it. If not park elsewhere.

No but I am kind of fascinated by people who get so angry about it to they claim their blood is boiling. Does it make you feel part of some club you’re trying to protect?

it’s a parking bay that belongs to Tesco or whoever. The mini nazism it inspires in people is bonkers.

If the spaces are full, they’re full. I couldn’t bring myself to care who has filled them.

I can't find it in myself to give a shit.

They may be collecting kids, they may be disabled but not have a badge, they may just be an arsehole, either way the spaces are full so you can be grumpy about it, which will only effect you, or find a space further back where its quieter and get on with it.

Must have been at least 2 days sonce we had this thread. Nothing will have changed since the other twelfty thousand threads.

Some people will be furious, some won't care, some will compare them to blue badge spaces, people will talk about distance from store vs wider spaces.

Literally nothing new will be said but it will still run to about 658 posts.

Yeah its annoying and selfish

I makes my blood boil!