To think this behaviour in the supermarket carpark was wrong

[Jusfloatingby]

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.

I go to Asda cribbs sometimes.I havent noticed them sparkling.I'll have nose next time i go up

I don't see the point of them if they aren't monitored, but that's easier said than done.

I get a bit when there is a parent sitting in the car while their partner and kids go in. Why would you do that?

HipHop it's called giving someone the benefit of the doubt instead of reading a tiny bit of info and then making up your own version of events.

Yes the man might have been selfish and not gone to pick up his family

But what we know for sure is that the woman was a selfish cow for causing disruption to other drivers just because she wanted that space.

No one said they feel 'hard done by'. Some of us are simply pointing out that people need to use a bit of common sense in relation to these spaces. Causing an obstruction or giving out to people who have an equal need to be near the door and making them move is not using common sense it is being selfish and self entitled.
Some of us have also said that having them beside the door causes a lot of problems and it might be more sensible to locate them elsewhere.

You might not think they are the same as disabled spaces, but some people do and create an almighty stink if someone other than a parent, no matter what the situation, uses them.

I'm waiting for her to pop up and justify her actions. It seems a very MN thing to do. I'm all for P&C spaces being at the furthest away point from the shop, that way they can all get some brisk exercise to help fight the obesity epidemic.
Plus it's a good training ground for the children to learn to walk to heel if old enough, and they get a fun ride in a trolley if they aren't and mummy or daddy can work on their glutes for free.

Sparkling i do that because its easier.My dp would just shout at me around the shop or wander off otherwisd

HipHop

I have no idea if he had kids with him. The woman had been paged and told to move her car because she was causing an obstruction to other cars trying to get past and because a driver trying to reverse couldn't see around her car. She was shouting that 'some man with no children' had taken the last space from under her nose and she wasn't putting up with it. I have no idea if he was collecting a partner and children from the supermarket but I could clearly see the trouble she was causing everyone else.

I can't imagine the stork spaces lasting Ruby. I doubt as soon as you get a BFP you could use it. Just leave the pissy stick on the dash?

They used to have those stork spaces at my supermarket Sparkling. I always used to wonder what they'd do if you said you were six weeks pregnant. Would they insist you pee on a stick?

i think she was being unreasonable but tbh i think it is odd the p+c spaces at asda are for parents with kids upto the age of 12. makes my mind boggle why it is so high tbh.

To the posters who have called this woman a 'hero'
Do you know how ridiculous you sound?

And here's a thought.
If the P+C parking spaces are full, why not park somewhere else. People managed before these things existed you know!

At our local garden centre they have people and dog parking spaces! I blinked the first time I saw this, but then I realised that the spaces were up against a hedge and therefore in the shade - great idea.

Of course the real problem is that parking spaces are too small for all the huge modern cars people have. We didn't have this problem when my children were babies thirty years ago as cars were so much smaller (and also the equipment you needed was, too).

I have a blue badge and this weekend when I went to our local shops the disabled spaces were full (and I am pretty sure that they shouldn't have been, if you see what I mean), so I had to park in a normal space. No problem as there was plenty of spaces; however, when I came out of the chemist another car had parked quite tightly at the side of me and I couldn't get into my car. I stood and waited for ages and then in the end rang my husband and asked him to walk up to the shops and help me.

'Park somewhere else' ramblin? Good god no, that's not an option, they are entitled you see.

i like the p and c as it stop someone parking so close, by parking over their line, to my fiat punto that i cant get my son (7 mths) in the car.

Are you mad ramblin? If you park somewhere else you don't get to be a 'hero' and fight the good cause and make the world a better place.

i am of a generation that had a baby went to a supermarket without Pn C parking , just saying

I can't help stop myself posting this again ....we don't have these spaces in Holland. Yet Dutch children survive, by the sounds of it we're better off.

For those shouting about wankers - you know this makes me want to park in one fo these spots just to watch you all froth? Can't you just roll your eyes and move on?

Katie may I suggest you drive a coach and park it sideways across all the P&C spaces, just for the ultimate effect?

People also managed before disabled parking spaces

I don't think they did bejeezus. A lot of disabled people found a lot of public places inaccessible until our laws improved.

I am with the OP.

Why make rules if it's ok for everyone to break them.

Selfish git.

There are always cars on the disabled parking area without badges too.

But nobody is policing the rules which is why people want to police it themselves and it causes uproar every time.

Your'e wrong bejeezus.
Only recent legislation has improved the rights of the disabled, and still it's not enough.
It's ridiculous to compare the rights of people that can manage with a couple of young children, without being seriously put out, to someone totally helpless .

I know it must be annoying to find someone parking in one of these spaces who seemingly isn't entiltled to it.
But come on, the amount of seething anger over it seems really over the top.

I find the stories of mothers raging at people with wheelcahairs, who have parked there when the disabled bays are full very depressing.

I just think a little common sense instead of this massive sense of entitlement is needed.