To believe I shouldn't be accosted about where I leave my shopping trolley?

[ExquisiteCake]

Has just returned from the hell hole that is Tesco. I parked in Parent & Baby as I am a parent, with a baby (20 mo) and am due another in 2 weeks. In this particular Tesco, the P&B spaces are no where near the entry door but are near the shelter, so you can get out and walk under the shelter to the door, retrieve a trolley and go shopping. However on your way out, you can use the exit door right next to the P&B parking, so you don't have to wheel a heavy trolley the 2 mile stretch across the car park. However, you have to put the trolley back near the front door, as there is no trolley park within 50 yards of the P&B section. Not happy leaving my son strapped in the car alone, nor loving the idea of lugging him on my hip in the pouring rain, I pushed my trolley (once emptied) near to the exit door, under the shelter as the woman next to me had parked and was getting out, and I figured she could retrieve it as the seat was dry etc.

Some absolute knob head walked past with his trolley in his fucking cheese cloth suit and said;

"Oh just going to LEAVE it there are you?".

I was half in the car, and I said,

"Excuse me?"

Him: "You. Leaving that there."

Me: "It is not my fault that Tesco do not provide a trolley park near enough the parenting spaces so I don't have to leave my baby in the car alone while I dance across the car park".

Him: "You have legs, you CAN walk, don't just leave it there".

Me: "It isn't upside down in the sea, is it? I don't see it has anything to do with you, if it offends you so much, get a job here and see if they'll let you collect the trollies".

Got in my car and drove off doing the wanker gesture as I went past him.

I'd like to add, he was parked 2 spaces over from me WITHOUT A CHILD. Which I know is not a legal right blah blah, but he had the bloody audacity to quiz me on supermarket etiquette. What a dick.

Don't tell me he was right, I may hang myself.

He should be hung, drawn and quartered. I would have drawn his attention to incorrect parking, personally but that is because I am a bitch pedantic.

I used to do the same as you when DS was younger, and as you say, other parents would often take the trolley on their way in to the store, as they could pop their child straight in it and not have to carry their child across the car park.

It's just made me so mad. He was just "one of those types"....I drove to the petrol station and rung my husband...I actually considered going back and running him over.

I am hormonal.

I parked in Parent & Baby as I am a parent, with a baby (20 mo)

You didnt have to. You could have parked in any other space, near to a trolley bay.

It pisses me off when people just abandon a trolley anywhere.. I have seen trolley get caught with a slight gust of wind, and roll in front of vehicles and into parked cars, why not just put it back in the designated area, as you seem so keen to park yourself in your "designated area", even though you knew it was nowhere near the trolley bay.

What Eeyore said.

Forget about it, enjoy the rest of your day. Life's too short.

I probably would have put the trolley back, but I'm a bit like that.
He really isn't worth worrying about. Life is full of people who think they know best and you just have to learn not to let them get to you.

Squeaky, I was more concerned about not drenching my son getting in and out of the car. Plus the extra room is useful with my bump.

Well, technically he was right. Trolleys should be returned to the trolley bay and you do have working legs. They should be returned as otherwise the can, and do, roll in the wind or the slope that some fuckwit put on the walkway near the P&C spaces and cause damage.

Which isn't to say I've not done the same with my trolley. if you're going to do stuff like that though, you have to accept that nobbos are going to pull you up on it. Don't let it bother you.

Children don't melt in the rain.

That's fightin' talk, SqueakyToy

Of course OP needed the wider P&C space- she has a bump and a car seat and/or child to manoeuvre. I'd be fucked if I was squeezing my vast bulk out of my car door in the tiny width of the usual spaces, on the off-chance that it might affect subsequent ideal trolley placement issues. Bollocks to that.

Especially when my 2 boys were both small and in the trolley seats, I would deliberately leave the 2-seater trolley near the P&B spaces so the next parent didn't have to go all the way to the trolley park to get a trolley.

And whenever I arrived I was very grateful if someone else had done the same.

YABU, he was a dick.

doh of course I meant YANBU

I know that if it was a blue badge area, it wouldn't have been an area. The issue is with Tesco really for not providing a bay. Why should I leave my child in a car and hike across the car park in the rain while so heavily pregnant?

I never shop in Tesco and today has just reinforced my reasoning as to why. May have to..WRITE A LETTER. That'll teach 'em.

*issue not area.

It's hard to say without seeing where you left it whether it was safe from rolling into cars or not, if it was, then YANBU. They need to put a little thought into the layout there.

He was BU - ignore.

Not a good idea to use your phone in a petrol station though apparently... but I don't know how true that is. I avoid it just in case they're right!!

My local Tesco used to have the parent & baby spaces next to a covered walkway - lots of people used to leave their trolleys under the covered walkway and tbh, it was bloody useful because it meant that you could just pick one up without having to look around for one with a seat, or go to the actual door and fetch one with a seat.

No one would have said a dickybird, unless someone left the trolley actually impeding a parking space - yon cheesecloth suited bloke was an officious git.

Oh no it couldn't have rolled. There's like bollard things so they can't roll sideways in the wind or anything. They are by the "exit door", which isn't in direct line of the car parking bays...just nearer than the trolley bays.

If they just let people go in through the "exit" door it wouldn't be an issue. (You can enter and exit through the "enter door" and only exit through the exit door. Go figure).

Yes Thumb, that is the same layout. The trollies are no in anyone's way.

If I had filled it with rubbish and pushed it onto a railway line I'd understand his concern.

It is making me rage that he walked away SHAKING HIS HEAD.

This does annoy me a bit. My Tesco have recently gone over to coin slot trolleys and the trolley parks are few and far between. I've got to the stage of pregnancy where it's very painful to walk. I can just about manage it if I hang on to a trolley but unaided it's quite an effort. To do all the walking round plus walk to get trolley and walk to put it back is very hard. Yes I know I could do online shopping but if I don't go to the supermarket etc then i'm stuck in the house. It gets me out.

I don't mind putting the trolley back but I wish there were more places to do it.

I might have offered him the use of my phone, to call the police about his missing child/ren

Ah well, I tried online shopping today however the "book the delivery slot" bit has a glitch so I rang their customer services who said it was out of order and you can order a shop but you couldn't get it delivered...so I had to leave the house.

I always put the brake on so the trolley shouldn't roll anywhere & to balance things out I always put my trolley back when not with DC.

Moaning

I should've given him my phone to ring someone who actually gives a fuck. I probably would have just hounded him a bit more but it was really hammering it down.

JKS when not with my ds I always put the trolley back, I don't have an issue with that. But if I'm not with ds then I don' t park in that bay so am nearer to the trolley park.

Bloody semantics.