Parent/child spaces without the child

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I'm curious how many people would admit to using a parent/child space when they don't actually have their child with them, or their child is remaining in the vehicle?

I feel like this might be like asking "admit you don't pick up your dog poo" but I see it so often loads of people must do it.

Omg! They have changed, didn’t you know?

car seat requirements have changed, as have the size of cars.

But you could be right, the levels of courtesy has also changed. We all need to be hardy and always live just like it was 20 years ago, in the good old days.

Everyone is entitled to respect and compassion but I'm not sure why parents more so. Particularly ones who put their needs on a par with bb holders who are the ones who were called entitled.

No one did put their needs on par with badge holders too? And I’m not sure where this obsession with badge holders on this thread is from? The op didn’t mention it at all.
Equally, no parent here, I believe, has asked for more compassion or courtesy either.

To be honest, neither has much to do with the other. There are, legally, plenty of disabled spaces, and some p&c spaces. With reasonable courtesy, people should be able to park in spaces which match whatever needs they have. and parents with young children do have more needs than middle aged single shoppers..

If the issue is where the disabled spaces are, then thats the issue that should be tackled. Not saying the p&c spaces are an example of entitlement and that parents shouldn’t be allowed this courtesy because people are unhappy with where the disabled spaces are.

so really, it seems, supermarkets should plan where disabled spaces are more, and then p&c Parker’s won’t be made to feel like monsters for feeling like they need the space.

No one did put their needs on par with badge holders too?

@Michellexxx you did. I quoted you

This is the op:

I'm curious how many people would admit to using a parent/child space when they don't actually have their child with them, or their child is remaining in the vehicle?

So. I "admit" to using a parent and child space when I don't have a child with me as I am disabled and only fairly recently qualified for a blue badge. In fact I used one at the weekend as my badge was in my OH car.

It's literally answering the question the op asked

No, you’re projecting. I said “others”- I didn’t say badge holders; and like I said, I’ve never encountered someone with a genuine excuse, and if disabled spaces are so awful as everyone here seems to think(although we don’t seem to have that issue here, hence no one having that reason to park in p&c) , then that would be fine.

Again, it seems to be the disabled spaces that are the issue. Which has nothing to do with p&c spaces, so entirely unfair to say they should be obsolete and that anyone who thinks they have reason to use them, are entitled.

There are rarely enough disabled spaces in the car parks I go to regularly - my local Tesco unless you're there very early in the morning or late at night the spaces are full. Same for the local municipal car park. Home Bargains is worse. I have given up trying to even go shopping there as I have never been able to get a disabled space and their spaces are so narrow I can't open my door wide enough to get out of my car and manoeuvre my crutches.

Who said that?

We do if there are no disabled spaces available

I mean, there would be no denying they have a child with them..

Sometimes I park in them even if there are BB spaces available. As the CP spaces are sometimes closer

Several previous posters who have said there’s really no need for p&c spaces

I do it if I need to (without child). I don't need to give you a reason.

Or people who are parking there with no children should just park in normal spaces instead of them determining what time families can enter a shop 🫠

Having a blue badge definitely trumps being a parent with child and if you can't think of other groups of people who might need a bigger spot then you're very lucky not to need one.

Why does literally every comment here come back to being a blue badge holder?!

The selfless society that we live in..

Because as a BB holder I have been shouted at for parking in a CP space with no child.

I would park in one if I was taking my elderly dad out and there was no safe drop off point.

I have seen many posts on many threads where parents compare p&c spaces to BB spaces or wonder if its OK for them to park in a disabled space if the parent spaces are full. Or indeed begrudge a disabled person parking in a parent space.
That is the sense of entitlement I was talking about.

No one said that.

I once parked in parent and child when heavily pregnant (couldn't get out the car otherwise). I felt so guilty.

Never park in them without little one with me now he's here.

Wow, selfish much? Taking up spaces that aren't designed for you when there are ACTUAL spaces left which have been designed specifically for you/disabled users that no one else can use.

Then people wonder why P&C users get so easily irritated...

I'm selfish? So you'd see a disabled person struggle to fucking walk just so you can park in a space a bit wider. How about fuck off.

As Above for all
people saying that no one said there’s no need for p&c spaces- “aren’t a need, just a want”