To think that you should not use the parent/child spaces at the supermarket once your kid is over, say, 5?

[SuzysZoo]

Ok - fine if your child has special needs over 5 but otherwise you should not park there. Surely it means you have a non-walking child/toddler/buggy/car seat. Kids getting out of cars in those spaces in school uniforms annoy me...AIBU?

OP, has anyone pointed out that disabled badge holders are actually entitled to use P&C spaces if the disabled spaces are full?

If you are going to police the correct application of "the rules", you probably should make sure your interpretation of "the rules" is accurate.

And Tanith - so skinny people parking in disabled spaces pass without challenge, but if they are overweight you judge? Just slightly overweight? Or do they have to be morbidly obese to incur your wrath?

Words fail me.

I try not to care but it did grind my gears somewhat yesterday when I car pulled up in the P&T space next to mine and a bloke and his, at a guess, 13/14 year old daughter hopped out. She wasn't even on a booster! :o

Not my finest moment - I had a new mum hormonally induced meltdown at the chap with no kids who just beat us to the last p&c parking space when DS was 3 weeks old. anyway it worked, he hadn't realised that it was a p&c space and he told me to calm down and he vacated the space for us. :o Don't want to do that again!

Unfortunately if we want a space away from other cars it can mean going up to the third floor of the multi story car park. But its only a minor inconvenience.

Wishing I had a and !

Oh goody, still going strong. Time for

house!

kungfu said entitled (even though she's making a valid point, i still score)

I think there should be wide parking spaces for people who drive 4x4s and expensive German cars close to the shops, and small ones far away for the proles.

I always park my 4x4 across two bays, as I of course have a highly defined sense of entitlement (even though Kungfu beat me to it). I am also quite round so need lots of room to get in and out of my mahoosive vehicle.

I think people with children too small to do up their own seat belts or get in and out on thier own should stay at home and do their shopping online.

Until supermarkets have 'baby scraming ailses' and 'quiet aisles', anyway.

scraming? Is that to do with ice cream?

I've never scramed a baby...is it legal? I want to try it.

I'm sorry, my list didn't include the 6m wide bays inside the supermarket for 4X4s. They have a line down the middle so the posh people can see what to park over.

If it says parent and child then I'd use them with my six year old, even if my two year old isn't with us. If it says "Parent and baby" then I wouldn't if either or both were with me, if "Parent and toddler" then only if the little one is with us.

With the caveat that you usually can't get near the P&C spaces locally as they are full of retired people...Usually I don't even bother looking for one.

My dd is 4 and still in her car seat and definitely not allowed to touch the buckles. Shes staying in it till she out grows it as it cost a bloody arm and a legit says its suitable till age twelve. Can I have a parent and child spot till then !!

Apoc?

Are you ok?

YABU to want to park there at all! the drivers who park in them at my local supermarkets are the most agressive who pull out and try to drive to the space at 25mph and they let their kids run around the cars and on front of / behind yours. I've always parked in the normal car park. Much easier to leave em to it!

No.

My eyelid keeps twitching

the fucking walking police are out agin yawwwwwwwwwwwwwnnnnn

Op read this thread

What about when i go out with my sisters partner, he is disabled (aneuysm of the brain and a heart attack) so what spaces do i use? The disabled ones or parent and child (my son is 18months) and if i use p&c do i pay or can i still use the badge. It is all a bit blurred. Think morrisons are only for children under 8? But might be wrong.

Just park your German 4x4 across 2 normal spaces. Sorted :D

FFS not this again.

My mum didn't have a f-ing car. She had to get two children on and off buses with the shopping bags and buggy. Most people 30 years ago had to do the same.

You have car and can park it outside to go shopping and load your car afterwards. That's a luxury in itself.

Apocolypse what have you done

I have suggested to most of the supermarkets that putting the P&C spaces at the far end of the car park, with a path to the door of course, would be better all round. Since it's the width of the spaces that are required not the closeness to the store. That will stop people who don't need the wider spaces parking in them.

Obv. it's an; old thread BUT my daughter doesn't need any less help getting in/out her seat now she's 5 than she did two weeks ago when she was still 4.