To think this behaviour in the supermarket carpark was wrong

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I was up at the supermarket earlier and a huge row was going on outside the supermarket. Apparently a mother with two small kids was furious that someone without children had taken the last P&C space and had just blocked him in and gone off to do her shopping. As a result she was causing a huge obstruction for other customers trying to drive up to the exit and was also impeding the view of other cars trying to reverse out of their spaces.
AIBU to feel that she was taking the situation waaay too seriously and should have just gone off and parked somewhere else.

she is mental and VVU

Wow that's shocking. I hope he called the police to get her car towed.

Flipping heck, someone really did that?
Not saying I don't believe you, I'm just gobsmacked that someone would think that was ok!

he will probably think twice before parking in the P&C spaces again.

My cousins wife did this once! I wasn't there at the time but she told me about it. I find p+c spaces convenient if my nan is with me (kids with me too) as she can't walk far but i can easily use a normal space with 3 kids ranging from 2-8 on my own.

Silly woman

she is an obvious loon who thinks the world revolves around her children , which in fact it doesnt

I have had the spite and vile language directed at me more than once - when I parked there WITH MY KIDS including a 3 year old ...their dad as met me in the shops and taken them to his and I returned alone (unplanned - happend a few times when I have been round the corner from his due to drop them off for an access stay) and the reaction of some parents is madness

I was bringing my aunt, who is in her seventies and recovering from a knee operation to the supermarket recently. I went to park in a P&T space near the door for her and she was shocked and said 'no, no, they're for young mothers. We can't park there'. I found that a bit sad. Would any young mother really have begrudged her the space?

sadly just many would and they would let you both know it

I do think that the woman probably took it too far, but I will admit I get pretty rage filled when people take up the p&c spaces, because I see that they are there for a reason.

Once when i was 9 months pregnant and carrying an under 2 year old I went a bit loony at the supermarket. Here i was huffing and puffing and trying to load up my car and get the toddler into her car seat and some a$$hat in a Range Rover and his WAG of a wife start staring at me. I then noticed that not only did they not have any children or car seats, but they were parked in the P&C which had the HUGE sign stating it was for P&C only.

I very loudy started talking to my DD about how we needed to hurry up and move the car because these spaces are provided for parents with children and (now on the verge of screaming outloud) "IT IS VERY UNKIND TO PARK IN THEM ESPECIALLY IF YOU DON'T HAVE CHILDREN!!!".

hormone filled rage? check...

Oh how I would have loved to have watched this!!!!

Yes she is BU, however what a fecking tosser he was taking a P&C park without kids. Happens all the time in my supermarkets - usually by very able bodied 30 or 40 something men, in vans or taxis.

So yes she was BU but so was he. She was obviously having a bad day & flipped & I applaud her for her ballsy attitude.

I'm always amazed by just now many young-ish solo men, ususually driving a particular make of car you know the one who park in P+C spaces, or in disabled spaces, leap out of their cars and hustle into the supermarket. I'ts as if they're far too busy and important to have to abide by the same norms as we ordinary folk do. Entitlement is a real curse of the modern age. Sigh.

I agree that taking up a P&C space without children when there are plenty of other free spaces around and there is nothing wrong with you is prevocative. But people recovering from operations or people who are elderly really don't deserve to be given out to or abused for parking there, in my view anyway. They have a need as well.

Really I think anyone who can't get their kids in and out of the car when they're shopping, shouldn't be driving.

How on earth do they manage in car parks that don't have P&C spaces?

These spaces were brought in years ago by supermarkets as a gesture...nice if you can get one but certainly not a bloody necessity.

Was this guy recovering from an operation?

But HipHop her ballsy attitude wasn't just inconveniencing him, it was causing an obstruction in the car park. I thought that was the really selfish part of the whole thing.

And for the record, how did the woman know he wasn't there to pick up his wife and 3 kids?

Please campaign at your local supermarkets for P & C spaces to be moved further away from the entrance. As long as they can be accessed safely (e.g. along a wall or a walkway) then they will serve their purpose and also not be attractive to people who just want to park close.

I had a really weird dream last night and you have just reminded me.

I went onto our local tesco car park and they had made all the parent and child spaces into disabled one and then changed all the normal spaces into 'accessible for all' spaces, which were like P&T spaces but they were all full and i couldn't get a space

It was bizarre. It most probably means I am having a mental breakdown or something

I was talking about the situation with my aunt HipHop.

I can understand why she was tempted to do that tbh.

I did say she was BU! Still I applaud her - you could argue that HE was causing the inconvenience with his selfish behaviour .....

mental.

as an aside I park in them with my daughter who is severely disabled and a teenager and I get some right dirty looks but tbh I don't give a shit and I keep forgetting to apply for a blue badge