People using Paret and Child spaces just to wait in the car

[calamityboo]

Just had a little moan about this on another thread, it felt nice to get it off my chest so i thought i would have a great big moan in my own thread.

Went to Sainsburys today in the pissing wet hail with 2 yr old ds, the car park was really full (as you would expect) but thought i would chance it in the parent and child spaces only to find spaces (yes more than one) filled with people waiting in the car for dh or dw to go in the shop alone to do the shopping while they wait with the kids.

I thought the whole point of a parking space is that you park the car to go in the shop, and the parent and child spaces are there for mums with a fat arse like me to be able to get the kids out of the car with out banging the door on the next car over! WTF is the point in waiting on the fat arse space if you dont need to get the kids out of the car????

Parked further away, which if the spaces are full normally would do without issue, but got really pissed off today because there is a little part nearer the door for waiting cars, why couldnt they use them - oh yeah because they have kids in the car so can use the parent and child!

And i didnt know this had been a subject on here loads, quite new to MN, just getting the hang of it please have a little pity

MosEisley as long as you promise to drop everything, abandon trolley and kids as soon as I even consider going shopping.

kladdkaka We would need to have strict rules but I like the idea of a timeshare space. Everything would be null and void when I need the space though.

It's Parrot, not Paret

calamity I agree with you, this annoys me too. But I wouldn't dare start a thread in IABU about it!!

Normally am not that bothered if I get one or not, if it's available then I'll use it if DS with me. However at the moment I do NEED to use it, it's not a luxury. 38 wks PG and I cannot fit in the doorway of the car to do up DS car seat unless door is fully open, and cannot open door completely in regular spaces usually. So if no P&C I park across 2 regular bays at the far end of car park (yes, we take our chances in the rain) :)

Oops, missed the point....so under these circumstances would be irked to see an adult just sitting there in one of not getting out of car with children

YANBU.

I think it's just that people are inherently selfish that disappoints me. One group is given something to make the trip to the supermarket a little easier and I get upset that others who do not appear to require use of those spaces, use them.

The trolleys that have car seat cages are located next to those spaces at my supermarket. When my DD was smaller it was helpful to use those trolleys. Now DD is bigger and can sit upright then I can park smartly (at the end of a row or next to a tree etc.) and use the regular trolleys if the spaces aren't available.

Personally, I do get irritated by people pulling up in those spaces and sitting in them whilst one person jumps out. Kids or no kids, pull up outside the store, let the person out and then if they are too lazy to walk to the car call the driver to pick them up!

Our local Asda redid their carpark recently, and all the wide P&C spaces got shrunk to normal size. They are right outside the store, but they have built a multistorey carpark to the side of the store, so I go in there and park on an upper level where there is always space on the end of a row and it is dry if it is raining, get the lift down to the shop entrance, no problem. Snigger at the fools fighting over the few, tiny P&C spaces.
Also, if you have issues leaving baby in the car to return the trolley, try taking the baby in the trolley to the trolley park, then taking them out and carrying them back to the car, with your arms and stuff.

Why would you want to park in those spaces anyway? You don't get to puddle jump if you park so close.

Calling people twats for using those spaces without meeting your criteria is rather rude and entitled. When I used one I didn't have any child with me. Does that make me a twat? Was the man who shouted at me at the time justified?

I'm past the P&C spaces now, but what gets on my very last nerve is the lazy sods who squat in the recycling areab .
There are spaces for 3-4 cars.
The car park is pay and display. But drivers park in recycling, lock up their cars and leave them rather than pay to go through the barrier.

I had to dump a load of glass and parked in front of a car, thus effectively blocking it in.I was with my car, boot was open.Someone parked behind the offending car.
When the driver came back and couldn't move I made damn sure I didn't hurry.But gave him a judgey look (and was flippin ready for a fight)

YANBU. I agree with those posters who want the spaces restricted to DC who still use buggies. The parent with a healthy 11 year old does not need the extra space.

YANBU trailing my rabble around a car park coz some smug git sitting waiting in parent spaces with kids playing on ds really gets my goat...esp as in my local morrisons the path from them leads directly to a crossing so helps get thjem into the shop in one piece!as does disabled drivers who nab p n c spaces(which apparently is allowed) even when disabled spaces are available

But Sue those who still use buggies don't need the extra space either. Or are you saying that if no space is available parents with small children have no choice but to go home?

as does disabled drivers who nab p n c spaces(which apparently is allowed) even when disabled spaces are available

Sometimes the availale disabled space isn't suitable for the specific needs of the disabled person. Would you rather they stayed home so you don't have to walk across the carpark.

Pnc bingo is to look for specific responses

'they shouldn't EVEN have pnc spaces'
'your child wont melt in the rain'
'when I had my kids we didn't have them'
'boo hoo I have to get the BUS'

Etc etc

There are a lot of responses that are recycled on all these threads I love it

Our blue badge was stolen have to use parent and baby spaces with a severly disabled, visually impaired, autistic teenager.

Any fucker tells me not to ....in reality

Also, every pnc thread, no matter how mundane and about children and buggies will always seem to turn into a pnc vs disabled debate, even if disabled spaces
Features nowhere in the op etc. it is an inevitability of pnc AIBU threads.

And of course 'they should be at the back of the car park - as FAR AWAY as you can possible make them' yadda yadda

I have
No feelings personally re
Pnc, but I love pnc bingo

what difference to you does it make if an empty car is parked in the space or if it has people in it.

in both scenarios you wouldn't have got the space. find an empty one and get on with your life.

Thanks kayano, will look out for that in future, also just re read op and got the parrot ref!

When they re did my local Tesco carpark a few years ago they made loads and loads of disabled spaces. At least 3 x the P&C spaces. There were always spaces in the disabled bit but never in the P&C. My Sister told me that because of the problems with parking she'd been told that people with children under 5 could park in either the disabled or P&C spaces and vice versa.

One day i merrily parked in one of many empty disabled spaces. Imagine my shame when a man in a wheelchair with no legs started shouting at me for parking there. I told him what i'd been told but didn't really want to argue with him. I've never parked in a disabled space again and i don't listen to hearsay.

In the event there are no P&C spaces I have managed perfectly well in a standard parking space with my buggy aged DD.

We all manage one way or another. I am still bewildered by the odd lives some people have where they actively seek out P&C spaces just to make a point. Saddos!