to have confronted this woman?

[AKMD]

Usual story: in Sainsbury's carpark, loading up my shopping, some woman in a massive people carrier pulls into the parent & child space infront of me, jumps out of the car, locks it and walks off. There were clearly no children in the car so I called after her, "You do realise that's a family space, right?" She carried on walking so I called again, at which point she turned around, strode up to me and started berating me for shouting at her because I already had a space and there were other spaces free so why shouldn't she park there. I told her that she was being incredibly selfish and that she shouldn't park in a parent & child space just because she couldn't be bothered to walk a few extra metres to the store (ok, I was getting a bit het up at this point). She walked off so I took her registration down and reported her to the customer service desk, who really didn't care either. WIBU?

I'm sure you were being perfectly reasonable but a bit petty nonetheless.

I was wondering about this the other day (as you do). Can you get into any 'trouble' for parking in one of these without having a child with you? I really don't know

I park in P&T parking spaces when I am on my own.

Mind you I only go to the supermarket in early evening, so the P&T spaces are free then anyway. Wouldn't do it on a Saturday afternoon.

AKMD - don't you know if a thread has happened on MN before it must NEVER happen again or the old timers will get cross & tut.

this pisses me off too - GO YOU!!!! YABNU

Can I add, that having a car set in your car doesn't entitle you to use these spaces either - you need an actual child WITH YOU!

Well... I think there shouldn't be P&T spaces at all. Just more disabled spaces. There weren't any when my brood were little and I never had a problem. It was manageable for me, it aint so hard. They are a luxury that can be done without... then there wouldn't be a problem.

..... or an old Dad of course!!! I doubt anyone would object to someone in need using the spaces. But the people I see using them tend to be very able bodied 30-40 something men.

In fairness, I have also seen parents totally abusing these spaces - parking in them because they have an 8yr old and 10 yr old with them, or mum going into the shop while dad sits in the car with the kids.

I think the problem though, is that some supermarkets put these spaces closest to the door meaning elderly people have to walk further with bags of shopping. This causes bad feeling and has given p&t places a bad image - oh, selfish parents hogging the spaces by the door, when in fact most of us would happily have them placed a bit further away as it is the width that is important.

I am with Orm just get rid of the bloody things so people can get over themselves.

Or move them to the end of the carpark.

Meant to say, YABU. There are more important things to crusade about.

Good on you for saying something, I have a few times as its just pure ignorance, mind you I think the only two times I said something was when they'd taken a space a few seconds before me and Ive asked them politely to let me have it as Im the one with the kids....neither did, they just have some random excuse and carry on walking away....It really riles me.

My children are 3 and 7 and I dont use the spaces anymore. Luckily for me my local sainsburys has a two storey car park next to it which hardly anyone uses and means I dont actually have to walk through the busy car park or cross any roads as I would if I parked in a p&c space,plus nobody parks next to me so im happy....and less stress as I bloody hate shopping at the best of times cant be dealing with ignorant morons as well.

YANBU at all.

Before I had ds I didn't understand it's about the space either side, rather than being close to the shop, but I still didn't park in them.

I really struggle to get my ds back into the car when some prat parks within 20cm of his door in a normal sized space. Last time I ended up accidentally knocking ds's head on the car trying to squeeze him in

I would prefer them to be further from the shops because at least then you could be sure of getting one.

I thought the point of P&C spaces was that they are wider than your average space?
If they put them further away from the entrance it's unlikely people without kids would be desperate to use them leaving them free for us!
My DD is nearly 8 and I still use them because with her child seat she needs to open the door really wide to get out and often bangs the door into the car next to us if I park in a regular space