maryz am with you entirely! We too have parent and child spaces which don't say age and DD, also 15, told me, "Park there, it says parent and child. I'm a child." I told her I didn't think she was the kind of child they meant.
But she did point out that, as a teenager, it's her duty to demand to be dropped everywhere door to door. So, as the mother of a child who by virtue of age is incapable of putting in the effort required to walk to the door, I'm thinking I was actually entitled to the space
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