To wait for my daughter to wake up in the car park?

[NorfolkNChance]

Apparently I am according to a woman shopping at Sainsbugs.

Got into the car park and parked up (yes in a P&C space - they were ALL free) and saw that my 16 month DD was fast asleep in the back so settled down to listen to the radio and MN when someone knocked on my car window. I opened it and smiled at the woman standing there and asked how I could help. She said that I shouldn't just be sitting there and use up a space if I wasn't shopping.

We had been there for about 10 minutes at this time and the car park was hardly full. I just gaped at her and pointed out DD who was snoring and said I was waiting for her to wake up and as the carpark allowed you 3 hours parking I didn't see the problem.

She then muttered that she would wake the child so not to "hog" a space. None of the other P&C spaces were used at this point.

So was IBU to wait there?

Vinegar even.... sorry, typing while feeding ds2!

YANBU Even if there were no other spaces free. You were parked legitimately and were paid up for three hours. It's up to you if you decide to get out of the car.

You should have asked her to make herself useful and nip and get you some biscuits while she was there.

How long had she been watching you? How did she know you weren't waiting for someone who was shopping?

Cheeky woman!

Better than what that Scottish football player and his wife did, leave their son in car while they went to Costco. It was below zero!

YANBU!

YANBU.

Plus, you can have a fag in the car until she wakes up

where are these people when the P&C spaces are taken up by people with teenagers or no kids at all? they say they monitor the spaces but I've never seen it so am partly impressed that they are monitoring but she was being ridiculous in this instance. Also, completely understand why you left your LO asleep. If my day involves a timetable where DS will have to have his sleep in the car and he doesn't fall asleep until halfway through the journey then if I can, I wait a bit when we reach the destination so he's had a bit of a nap at least - as you say, it can make the difference between a good rest of the day and a shit one!