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AIBU?

AIBU to think parent and child parking....

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Maursh · 03/10/2011 22:35

Should be for parents of young children only.

For the second week running, every parent and child space at my local supermarket has been taken and I have been pipped to the post for one space by someone with school aged children. It really gets my goat. I have one 7mth child and really need the extra width to navigate the car seat and baby. This afternoon I had to park miles away at a spot that was clear from other cars and carry the carseat through carpark traffic all the way in. Another lady with a child in a buggy had to do the same.

The supermarkets policy is children up to the age of 12 but I can't see why someone with a 7 and 10 year old needs that extra space. I think that its particularly rude given that they were also, presumably, were once struggling with a small child too.

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Kladdkaka · 03/10/2011 23:26

YABU A 7 month old could be left in strapped in their seat in the car. It's not like they're going to go anywhere. A 7 and 10 year old on the other hand can unstrap themselves and drive off so you have to get them out and take them with you.

DownbytheRiverside · 03/10/2011 23:27

Personally I'd be happy if the parents-with-children would just duke it out between themselves and leave the disabled spaces out of it.
Our local store has P&C up to 12 YO, which seems daft but so many people feel their children need protecting for so long. Then their precious poppets probably get squashed on their way to secondary school.
Start campaign number 7,625. Get P&C reduced to use for the under fives.
Then we could fit in more unicorns.

worraliberty · 03/10/2011 23:27

Honey

ChippingIn · 03/10/2011 23:28

Anyone who carries a 7 month old baby that far in a car seat needs her bumps felt quite frankly.

You should shop at my local Tesco's it has enough P&T parking spaces for all the kids in the SE of England, the rest of the spaces are a football field away - most odd.

RIZZ0 · 03/10/2011 23:28

I park my car in the fruit and veg section, then put my brats in the front of the trolley (where their dirty shoes can contaminate future shoppers food), chuck them some grapes (before paying) to keep them quiet instead of teaching them to be disciplined and wait to eat at home or feed them before we go, and then, THEN I snap off the stalks of the broccoli before weighing and chuck them on the floor because I'm not fucking paying for the bit we don't eat.

House!!!!

lesley33 · 03/10/2011 23:30

"A 7 and 10 year old on the other hand can unstrap themselves and drive off "

Sorry but my DC wouldnt have unstrapped themselves and drove off at any age never mind 7 and 10. IMO it is not the job of society to respond to situations that happen as a result of very poor parenting.

Oggy · 03/10/2011 23:31

Rizzo - you buy broccoli??? You sound a bit posh!

Honeydragon · 03/10/2011 23:32

I'm a poor parent which is why dd and ds have to WALK to super market, yes WALK a whole 1.5 miles. They have dissolved so so much, they are like dribbly little stalagmites

RIZZ0 · 03/10/2011 23:33

Yes I ooze class.

Honeydragon · 03/10/2011 23:33

She doesn't purchase the broccoli you know, just snaps and goes.

worraliberty · 03/10/2011 23:35

There's nothing wrong with 7 and 10yr olds driving round the carpark while you're doing your shopping.

They have to learn to drive some time and while they're doing handbrake turns in the road, they're not taking up any parking spaces so everyone's a winner.

worraliberty · 03/10/2011 23:36

I think RIZZO's got the wrong idea anyway

She was last seen in the frozen veg section...surrounded by open bags and snapped broccoli stalks.

RIZZ0 · 03/10/2011 23:37

It's the new thing. Snap and go!

Actually back on that thread of yesteryear, I learnt from one frugal mn'er to skin the stalk and chop the inner bit in to crudités. It's actually awesome.
Well, as awesome as chopped up broccoli innards can be.

JustRedbin · 03/10/2011 23:38

Worra - the 7 year olds should be revving the engine while your nicking the booze.

TuftyFinch · 03/10/2011 23:39

Bloody hell. I thought they were Parent and Cat spaces. So, they're for children? me and the DCs have been parking near the recycling and leaving the cats in the P and C spaces. I thought the yellow hash bits were so the cats knew which bit to stay in. i'll try one out with the kids one day. Should be a laugh if nothing else. I'll leave the bloody cats at home.

WilsonFrickett · 03/10/2011 23:39

Again? AGAIN????

Kladdkaka · 03/10/2011 23:45

When we were kids my dad used to put the steering lock on. The git. We had to entertain ourselves with the cigarette lighter. There's always loads of waste paper lying around the carpark.

Salmotrutta · 03/10/2011 23:52

I have a fake decoy child seat - and no child! Mwahahaha!

I figure it makes up for the fact that P&C spaces didn't exist when my DC were small and both of them dissolved in the rain.

I'm owed a space...

RedOnion · 03/10/2011 23:54

I cannot be the only person who wonders how we managed to raise our kids without being melted with rain/cars dented/rampaging rhinos attacking pfbs, in the late 80's/90's.

Or are we all just dinosaurs who think McDonalds isnt the devils work and a fruity beverage won't cause the child to drop dead?

TuftyFinch · 03/10/2011 23:56

It always puzzles me why hedgehogs don't eat crisps. I just don't get it.

Salmotrutta · 03/10/2011 23:57

Oh I suspect we are dinosaurs you and I RedOnion!

Kladdkaka · 04/10/2011 00:01

I remember the 80s. My mum used to walk the mile to the shops and leave my baby brother in his huge monster pram (the base of which would have made a great go-cart) outside. I remember the time she came with some bags of shopping and my dad asked her where the baby was. She stood there frozen for a moment, then dropped the bags and ran back out. She'd left him in the shopping precinct. :o

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A1980 · 04/10/2011 00:10

FFS some women don't even have a car and have to do their shopping and push it home on the bus along with the buggy.

YABU. Get a grip. You're lucky you even have such a convenient life these days.

Salmotrutta · 04/10/2011 00:11

'Twas very common to leave babies outside shops in their prams when I was growing up and when mine were babies too.
Old ladies would go past and coo at them before popping some money in the pram for good luck.

Kladdkaka · 04/10/2011 00:18

It's still very normal here in Sweden Salmotrutta. When you walk through the grounds of the local nursery (not fenced, entirely open to the public) you see all the prams lined up outside with babies sleeping in them. Even when it's -20 and there's 6ft of snow.

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