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.

I think you have all overlooked a few things

(a) he may not be able to read
(b) he might have a small child shoved up his jumper
(c) he might be pregnant and have high blood pressure
(d) we don't know how big his flatscreen tv is

Its just nice to leave the spaces for those with children isnt it; those that might be struggling with screaming babies and/or tantruming toddlers/ twins. the closer proximity and the extra width to open door and get kids in car seats is really helpful

why would you take one of these spacesz if you dont have kids in tow??? Cant really imagine the mentality....

Anyway, I love a militant mum,me. Well done furious-crazy-carpark lady

I did this once but not in a carpark. Some twunt was blocking my drive and wouldn't move to let me in when I asked nicely. So I stuck the side of my car 1mm from his front bumper and went inside and had a cup of tea. It did block the pavement as well but at least the other side of the road was clear.

I wouldn't do it over a p&c place.

So so pleased to see normality resuming.

A wonderful delicious contentious P&T thread.

Alls well with the (MN) world.

I am quite sure he has a fecking HUGE flatscreen --- it just goes without saying.

Of course its nice to let somebody park in a space designed for them but to be up and arms about it is just well crazy , people park in them because they want to be nearer the shop are just dont care , but the world does not revolve around young children and car parking mums need to chill out about it imo , and it isnt about being a walk over or letting others away with something , parking spaces are not a right ,

My son is now 24 and I remember first seeing P&C spaces in a Safeway in North London when he was a baby. I remember thinking they were quite a nice idea but a bit pointless. I used to keep my buggy in the boot, and just got him out of the carseat and put him in the buggy, never ever walked around lugging a heavy carseat.

I think they cause more trouble than they're worth, especially from the entitled foghorns who think that disabled people shouldn't use them if the disabled spaces are all gone. I agree with those who say that if they're needed at all, they should be away from the entrance, so they're not so desirable to the lazy gits who also park in disabled spaces "just for a few minutes" because their time is more important than anyone else's. As a blue badge holder, I find it annoying to see shops with about two disabled spots, and ten P&C spaces nearer to the shop than them! Babies won't melt and small children's legs won't fall off if parents have to walk a little way to the supermarket.
I'm a bit at the people who called this selfish woman a hero as well.

Of course its nice to let somebody park in a space designed for them but to be up and arms about it is just well crazy

yeah well, we all have bad days...
life would be very boring if no one over reacted ever, and everyone was completely reasonable all the time...
hope the lady feels better

I think the crazy car park lady was a woman on the edge and this just cracked her

bejeezus are you crazy carpark lady do you want to share

The fact the lady had been tannoyed to move her car tells you how silly she was! It could have been her tannoying him and embarrassing him while retaining the moral high ground and dealing with the problem in an appropriate way. What she did just made her look hysterical, I am sure she was just having a bad day. Poor woman. There have been times I am sure where eh're all tempted to take the angry route when we've just plain had enough.

I can never imagine getting so bloody crazy over a frigging car space. Esp with children in the car. I park on the 2nd or 3rd floor of our local sainsburys. Always plenty of parks and they're near the lift!

Dear god, I wonder how my mother ever managed in her day.

haha mrsjay it wasn't me, not today! but maybe one day....

personally I think this is cool.

bejeezus
I doubt very much that she feels better for her outburst.

She'll either still be seething over it, in which case it wont be a good day for her or her family.
Or she'll be cringing at how she reacted to something which, although annoying, is not the end of the world.

I have over reacted plenty of times in my life, and always ended up feeling

mm ramblin me too - it's only ever left me mortified at myself.

yy i didnt mean feel better because of her outburst, I meant just...feel better. She probably went home and cried and had a cup of tea

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.

that could be said about parents with children getting cross about their spaces though really, couldn't it?

and the annoying thing is, it then takes the emphasis off the selfish arse in the P&C parking space onto onto her lunatic display...

We don't know he was a selfish arse, he may have been in shock because his mother's aunt had just died

they should be banned these spaces.

grown men and women acting like fucking idiots in front of their kids, the same behaviour they would punish their kids for.

she is not a hero but an unhinged lunatic.

it is not an entitlement these spaces.

again, all of these confrontations happen in front of kids .... its vile.

Agree with Worra and all the other sane people on this thread.

The woman is not a 'hero'. She was the cause of major inconvenience to a lot of other shoppers, not just the man who had parked in the P+C space.

She sounds unhinged, not to mention uncouth; rowing in public in front of her children, what a terrible example to set.

Some people are SO entitled and should learn to control their temper. P+C spaces are not something to get so wound up about, really they aren't.

Holland has the right idea.

I think our mothers coped because they used to leave us in the car while they shopped. Many an afternoon after school spent poking stuff in the orange Chevette.

Does piss me off though, and I agree that p&C spaces should be miles from the entrance. I don't need to be close, I need to be able to swing my car door open wide enough to get a car seat out (or baby without pulling her arms off) and have somewhere safe for a toddler to stand.

SAw a cracking argument in Morries the other week where a bloke and his teenaged son where in one and a family with small children had to park elsewhere. The woman was arguing with bloke. He reasoned he was allowed to park in a p&c space because his son was still in school.

We don't know he was a selfish arse, he may have been in shock because his mother's aunt had just died

true, true.....

In an ideal world nobody would enter a supermarket with any babies or children in tow. The two don't mix IMO.