to want to set fire to anybody who equates Parent and Child spaces with Disabled Spaces..

[StuckinTheMiddlewithYou]

Again, on any thread on Mumsnet.

Parent and Child - clever marketing ploy by supermarkets.

Disabled Spaces - nesscary adjustment to allow the disabled a bit of extra help towards living a full life.

That is all.

shakes matches

yes, setting fire to people is an entirely proportionate response

I do not disagree. Immolation may be a tad harsh though

YABU to want to set fire to anybody.

Except fake Guidos.

Thank you, I think so.

No I disagree. Parent and child is necessary to safely park your trolley with a child in it rather than be forced to leave it where a car can swing round and hit it. I don't think that parent and child spaces need to be near the door though, just want a safe space to park the kids.

I do not disagree that P&T spaces are not in the slightest on a par with disabled spaces.

Setting fire to people might be a tad OTT tho

Aren't there very, very few people who compare the two? And wouldn't education be better.

I know, I know, clear off with your pacifistic tendencies, this thread is tongue in cheek.

And before you say I shouldn't leave kids in trolley, it is impossible not to when unloading 2 or more unless you are an octopus.

Oh well Stinky, at least I can toast the buns.

Oh. my tongue was in my cheek too - SOBS

No way. Disabled people are all in wheelchairs, so they dont even have to walk. Whereas us parents are knackered from doing the most important job in the world.

YABU

@ Tatty.

I do think though that for some people they are really quite important, to quote from the other thread where I said:

'I had SPD during pg and was on crutches for months. I once cried because I couldn't park in a P&T space as opening the door fully to get out was essential. Also, I couldn't have made it across the whole car park if they'd relocated the spaces.

I had a hormonal strop little whinge at the parking attendant who subsequently ushered me to a disabled space whenever P&T was full.

I've now found out that I may be eligible for a blue badge whilst pg this time '

Babies do melt though. I read it in the mail. Only if you're an immigrant or single mother though.

Oops hormonal strop little whinge

I was relly upset a few years ago at a supermarket. I parked in the parent and child space cos the disabled were all full. Got an absolute mouthful from a mother with a toddler that I shouldnt park there.
I had my brother who was in a wheelchair from brain cancer and needed the space to get him out. Couldnt have managed in normal space.

Didnt happen again,he died the following month. Just felt she was selfish and that her situation was easier than mine. She would have known he was so ill cos bald from chemo. Just wanted to get some wine n chocs he fancied looking at.

Oh, Jaffa, that's awful . Some people will always have something to grump about.

Well... technically they're both black and tarmaccy...

I'll get me coat.

Jaffa that's terrible. You are your brother should not have had to go though that at such a difficult time.

Some people are so wrapped up in their own egotisticaly worlds that they have no brain cells left to consider those less fortunate.

yanbu
but don't set fire to them as it is bad for the enviroment

yanbu but I do find it strange that our local Mothercare has about 4 parent and child spaces and about 15 disabled spaces