to get mad at people using parent and child parking without a child?

[Maamaa]

There I was sitting in Tesco's carpark waiting for my little girl to wake up so I could shop and I must have watched 3 or 4 cars in the space of 10 mins use the spaces for parent and child even though they had none! One woman had two dogs but I suspect that that doesn't count! When I went in the store I told the lady on customer services but she didn't seem very interested and just said she'd tell " one of the lads to have a look". I was so mad! Actually the worst one was a guy who had 2 child seats in the car and no kids! Should know better! Ok , rant over!

YABVU, park elsewhere and walk! You wont melt if its raining and even the furthest away spaces only take a minute to get from.

I wish they'd scrap them altogether, they were never needed in the past and seem to bring out the worst in people.

do not I repeat do not mention babies melting in the rain....
someone will tell the tale of the melting baby, it is so sad

Perhaps you should shop online then you can avoid this kind of outrage in the future.

It isn't immoral to park in a P&C space for goodness sake!

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Won't somebody think of the children?

YABU and a bit precious.

The Parent & Child spaces do infuriate me but then so does misuse of disabled spaces. As a nurse I know how vital disabled spaces are to people so perfectly able bodied people with no disabled badge parking in those spaces wind me up terribly.

Parent and child spaces are convenient just for getting dd out into her pushchair but as soon as she can get in and out of the car independently I'll stop using them. I can't understand why people with children of school age need to use them. I spoke to customer service at Sainsburys last week about misuse of the spaces but, whilst the adviser was very sympathetic, she did say that the spaces are not monitored at all. The last twice I've seen them misused was by 2 older women - one in a new BMW and one in a Mercedes. All I can think is that they like the spaces as they are less likely to get their car bashed by a car door or shopping trolley. In my less rational moments I do get the urge to shove a shopping trolley into the side of their precious car but I don't and never will!!

Won't someone think of the people like me who are very lazy?

Lazyism. It gets right on my titz

Parent and child parking started out as some little gimmick and now is seen by some to be law enforced by punishment of death. I think if anyone is clever enough to have children and be able to drive they should be able to cope with an ordinary car parking space

MoFo for Prime minister!

There was going to be a campaign about that Shirley, but no-one could be arsed to start it.

"WHAT DO WE WANT?"

meh

There are no laws about who can and can't park in parent and child bays. Disabled bays there are.
What irks me is people sitting in their cars in these spaces, waiting for husbands/wives/friends, when neither the child, not the disabled person actually leave the car.

One thing I didn't mention - be careful if the car park is owned (or even in some cases) managed by the local council because they can (and often do) enforce regulations against misuse of not only disabled spaces but also parent and child ones.

"WHEN DO WE WANT IT?"

Let me just have a first...

Thanks lady007 pink, methinks I just dropped in for a mild moan and got an earful instead! Of course I think disabled parking should be enforced but I also think a little consideration for those of us trying to wrestle kids in and out of cars without braining them on the car door would be nice. Jeez, and you think I need to calm down!

One of the great joys of having a 2 seater sports car was parking it in parent and child spaces at the supermarket and swanning in, sans child.

I really don't get the ire.

AIBU to be annoyed at the mother parked in a P&C space for 10 whole minutes while her child slept, and I couldn't get parked at all?

It's not the Rest & Be Thankful OP, it's a parking space, you park, you shop, you leave - you don't have a wee snooze and listen to the radio whilst eyeing up all the other wrongdoers of the world.

I could have been in and out in the time it took me to wait for the sleeping child to wake up.

Do you see what I'm saying?

Biscuits for those lazy bastards like me, to go with the cup of tea

I like to park in the P&C spaces and then get my nan out of the back seat. IT REALLY grinds their gears.

(I am, of course, joking...OR AM I?)

The only parking spaces needed are the disabled ones. Even then people get snooty if they see a perfectly 'healthy' looking person using them...We don't know what disability they may have- equally, OP - you have no right to sit in your car and judge perfect strangers- as someone else said, you dont know what these people were doing and even if they were just taking the space to get cliser to the store... Well, , whatever....
The p+c ones are wide and stop you bashing another car's door but there is no need to put them close to the store IMO. If they put them further away from the store people wouldn't take them..... TBH it annoys me when people get uppity - some people seem to think having a child gives you a right to go first, get to the front, have special treatment... People are too precious.

i well remember my first AIBU P&T thread as a newbie....

wasn't as bad as this flaming though, phew

Call this a flaming bamboo? This is just a very light toasting

Shirley... Actually, I HAVE used a p+c bay with my grandma and 7 year old!! I don't feel even slightly guilty!

those biscuit icons can wound to heart i'll have know.

There is a supermarket in Gloucester where the P&C parking spaces are around the corner - so take an extra 1.34 minutes to walk to teh shop. They are always empty. So I park in 'em.

Nobody has ever said anything to me or given me a filthy look. I think P&C parking space war and angst doesn't actually exist in real life, it is just a mumsnet construct.