to get so cross with people who park in parent and baby spaces when they haven't got kids with them?!

[TheRealDarkMavis]

...I need to get over it, don't i?

I get sooo furious when someone pulls up into a parent and baby space when i have to keep driving round and round until i find a space big enough to get the car seat out.
Then i find myself glaring at said driver, gearing up to have it out with them, ("these spaces are for parents with babies, don't you know??") before chickening out and calming back down.

What's wrong with me?! But, uh, it's so unfair. I don't care about being close to the shops, i just need to get my pushchair out.

And should i give old people a break for doing it? No! I figure that if they can't walk from a normal space to the shop doors, how do they get round the shopping centre?!? I'm being unreasonable aren't it?

PS - I wouldn't feel cross if a disabled person did this, or someone with a genuine extenuating reason. But everyone i see doing it just seems to be lazy!! Lazy i tell you! Pah!!

Help! Tell me i'm not the only one who thinks this??

I soooo need to get over it, don't i? Thanks!

YABU. They're just parking spaces and it's not difficult to get a child of any shape or size out of a car in a normal space.

Would you still be up in arms if the spaces were at the furthest point away from the store? More to the point, would you still use them?

there are generally hundreds of spaces at the far end of the car park where i go but most people dont want to walk that far and whinny on about C&P spaces

Exactly. I think the spaces should be at the back of the car park - i'd still use them. I need to open the door up wide to get the car seat out. I think that's one of the reasons they make the bigger spaces... i guess...

Why do you need to remove the seat?! Surely just the child is sufficient??

I have considered parking across 2 normal spaces if i can't get the larger ones so i have enough space. Or maybe i should just accept a few dents in the car?! Thanks - I will try to be more calm in the future!

hardhat - it's the type of seat that goes straight into the pushchair chassis.

Doesn't your baby want a stretch out and a lay down? Surely being curled up all that time is bad for their back?

Perhaps i'm being unreasonable for not getting it though.

I will confess to being furious about this on occasion also, at one point heavily pregnant (that's my hormonal defence) struggling with an 18 month old I kindly reminded the lady getting back in her car minus a child that she seemed to have forgotten her baby. She just looked at me like I was crazy and got in the car. I think being furious is a little OTT and they probably should be moved further away but I thought the location was to limit the number of roads crossed as well as the space

it irritates me too, totally inconsiderate, and even worse when i see people with a 10 year old in the car using a mother and baby space.

however i know from previous threads on here that apparently loads of people think it's absolutely fine and normal. karma will get them, i say.

Yes, Jayles, I think furious probably is an exaggeration!

Hardhat - well i can't fit the carry cot attachment in the car when we go shopping. But i guess it won't be a problem much longer when he can go in the 6month seat. Thanks :-)

I've never seen previous threads on here about it so apologies for repeating discussions.

Do you really not have anything else to worry about? Park further away, at the end of a row so that you can open the door wider.

Don't start one about eating grapes, fruitshoots, ear piercing small children or greggs therealdarkmavis either. They are perennial favourites.

Dare I ask what is wrong with grapes?

Fair enough :)

We all have our own little 'things' :)

Yes, yes, i know, i know!! Thanks for the advice too!

Eating grapes in supermarkets before you have washed them/paid for them.

Yanbu at all

I have said things on many occasions but I am bolshy like that

I also park over two spaces if there are no p&c spaces and that to me is totally acceptable

Gosh, I'm surprised by many of the replies. I find it quite annoying too, so YANBU.

Ahh I understand the grape thing now, I thought I was about to learn an awful fact about grapes that I had been happily feeding my dcs. I wouldn't park over 2 spaces that seems a bit selfish to me

Lots of people seem to think that if they have a booster seat in their car, then they can use the P & C parking, regardless of whether they have a child with them at the time .