I am posting this half in the hope that the woman in question is a MNetter and actually realises that she and her husband/partner were bang out of order.
DS goes to a nursery in a leisure centre with fairly limited space outside. There is a reasonable sized car park down the side and a handful of disabled/staff parking spaces just to the side of the entrance, as well as a bit of not-quite-parking space near the entrance where people tend to drop off and pick up. It can get a bit chaotic at busy times if there are people trying to reverse out of the drop-off part while other people are coming out of the car-park but people generally manage to sort themselves out with a bit of co-operation.
This morning I got there quite early and the place was almost empty. The car park only had a few cars in it, the ramp (which people often park on to drop off) was clear, and all the disabled spaces and the unofficial drop-off space (about 6 feet to the side of the entrance) were entirely clear. And yet there was a queue of cars unable to get through the entrance.
Why? Because one of the baby-swimming mums was being dropped off by her husband/partner who had decided that it was too much effort to move a car's width to the right or left and had simply turned into the entrance and stopped, face-on to the entrance steps, blocking all access in either direction. She then ( for several minutes before I arrived according to the gentleman in the car in front of me who spoke to me afterwards) proceeded to unload all her stuff from the boot, assemble her buggy (still in the middle of the entrance), unload her child, have a little chat with the driver and wave him off merrily. All of this while the queue of people waiting to get in grew longer and longer.
The driver then refused to turn to the side to get out of people's way - he wanted everyone to reverse so that he could back straight out onto the road. Several people put their windows down, no doubt to have a go at him, at which point he started waving his arms and mouthing things that seemed to be to the effect that he had been dropping someone off and what was everyone's problem?
The car park is about 30 seconds walk back to the entrance. The accessible spaces are a couple of car lengths away. Even if the lady had some serious disability (which I very much doubt given that he made no attempt to help her with buggy or child) what on earth was to stop him from pulling into one of the available spaces. Someone would have to have a very, very serious mobility issue for a few yards to make a difference. Even if there had been such a serious issue, he could have stopped a few feet to his right and caused no real problems.
So really, in these circumstances, I can't possibly see any reason for this behaviour beyond "Can't you see we have a child and are therefore perfectly justified in bringing the whole area to a standstill for our convenience?" I think it was the complete lack of awareness/embarrassment/apology that got me - woman merrily waving him off while he grinned and waved back and entirely ignored the steam coming out of the ears of those waiting.
So AIBU to hope this lady is a MNetter and takes a minute to think about whether their wish to be about 6 feet closer to the entrance is actually a reason for delaying a whole queue of other people?