To want to have a mad rant about people who park in mother and baby parking spaces

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Why, just why? its not so much that the spaces are closer to the shops but the extra space they give you means the buggy can go next to the car while unloading all the shopping, instead of leaving the baby near the road.

People are so unreasonable to park in them just because they are close to the shops, I so want to shout at people with no kids who use them but so far I havent..... have you?

Goodbyemrschips I bet you drive a hummer while smoking and your ds is formula fed on milk made by Nestle.

I park further away where there are less cars if necessary and DS (3) knows to hold my hand in car parks or on roads. Tbf, I have one DC so logistically easier than several children.
I CBA with parent and child spaces, totally unnecessary

what did people do before buggies and cars? or before mother and baby spaces?

i walked, walked everywhere with three kids under three, two in the pram and one walking or sat on end of the pram and shopping underneath

kids loved it, i didnt much as we lived at the bottom of a hill but it gave them fresh air and we chatted as we walked along so was nice

Don't have a hummer [whatever that is?]

don't smoke [never have]

ds is 9

I dont park in them, I like to show the other chelsea tractor drivers up by reverse parking into a normal space in between two cars.

I am afraid I get very cross about this. Before I had a baby i would not have dreamed of parking in those spaces. I have "had a word" with a woman who parked in the parent and child space at Tescos, no child or even child seat in the car. She became very angry with me, saying "you are f-ing busy aren't you" and drove off swearing at me! It was very satisfying.

Hummers are those HUGE boxy tank like truck-cars. You have ruined my idea of people who SHAMELESSLY steal the P&C spaces. Does your DS at least live on processed cheeselike food?

Seriously though I manage perfectly well with a wriggly baby in teeny weeny Dutch parking spaces, while I'd like a wee bit more room so far as I can tell these spaces are giving large sections of the British public ulcers.

It gets to me that quite often P & C places are nearer to the supermarket entrance than disabled spaces. By definition these people are young and fit. Why not place them further away, why not have OAP parking spaces too?
P&C places were only a gimmick by one supermarket chain that then had to be followed by another to keep custom! Children are no more in need or in any more danger in supermarket car parks than other car parks where there are no such spaces. Put them at the far end of the car park.. We'll soon see how much they are needed. I would bet they are empty.

No slippysnap they are not empty at my local Asda - where they are nowhere the entrance to the store. They are full of cars with child car seats, exactly what they are designed for.

I've parked in a quiet part of a car park only to have my door blocked by a 4x4. I had to leave DD in her pushchair behind a pillar while I moved my car to a space that would allow me to put her in the car.

I have a Hummer here but who the hell would be able to afford to run one in the UK? Mine does 10mpg but fuel is 10p a litre. And actually, I always reverse into spaces even though there is no visibility apart from wing mirrors.

Dontcha just love 'em Hec

say what you like, I look down on gee wiz drivers, both metaphorically and literally.

Hecate , I live in Cleethorpes- dont worry - people run round shouting that all the time !

For those of you all saying take baby out first, have you actually thought how difficult this is with 2 under 18mths and then 3 under 4? Not at all easy.

Also not very common.

Thank god.

Also doesn't mean that someone can't take one baby out first. Or even sort out two.

bella - I wasn't over keen that day, tbh

Rowgtfc72 -

goodbyemrschips, you're obviously just a selfish self entitled arse with no idea or no care of how you inconvenience others or put children at risk.
I have a large family, therefore a large car, and if i have to park in a regular space quite often cannot get the youngest two DD's back into the car as cannot get the doors open.

I have had to reverse out of a space with my baby on the front seat to get far enough back to then run round and fasten him in the car seat. He loved it. Its really quite difficult to get a child in to a car seat if people park near you. Maybe we need those stickers???

I think the issue of whether or not they are necessary is beside the point. The have been provided, they DO make things easier and they are intended for a specific group. If you are not in that group, you shouldn't use them. I don't really understand people who get so het up about them being unnecessary - why is it so wrong to provide some assistance to people? Incidentally, I sometimes have DS in a buggy at a supermarket if I am only getting a few bits and put the basket on the handles rather than using a trolley which is heavy and awkward to push.

The only time I've ever been annoyed about it was on one of my first excursions to the supermarket with both my 3 year old and my new baby. It was a busy Saturday, the carpark was absolutely crawling with people and nearly all the P&C spaces were full, but I spotted an empty one. As I drove towards it, I realised a man in another car was approaching in opposite direction, with the same intention... I huffed inwardly but did the dignified thing and waved him in. Without even acknowledging me, he nipped into the space, and then I saw he didn't have any children in the car at all - not even an empty booster seat! I was absolutely hopping with indignation.

But otherwise, P&C banditry doesn't really bother me.

"I have a large family, therefore a large car"

I have a large family but not a large car. No 'therefore' about it.

YANBU. I said something to a horribly rude woman once and got flames on here though.

Put the P&C spaces further away from the doors. It's the wider space that is needed not the closeness to the doors.

juuule, how else would you recommend I get 5 children (2 of them teenagers) in a small car? 2 on a roof rack perhaps? Or should I have a second car for when the older DC's are at school/college?