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 dont really care....Its as daft to get all excited about her getting all excited, as it was for her to get all excited in the first place

I've never parked in a P&C space but have always wanted to do it, just to be evil.

If anyone approached me I'd always planned to open the car boot a tiny bit and hiss 'be quiet you naughty boy or you'll stay in there another hour'. Would love to see the face of whoever approached me. In reality, I park as far away from other cars (and therefore the supermarket) as possible so as to not hit other cars/trollies.

I am obviously unstable and have given too much thought to a scenario that is never going to happen. That is all.

haha astronaut that is true....I was often left in the car

maybe car parking spaces could be bigger so everybody can use them and there is no specific spaces , and would stop the crazy car parking ladies in their tracks.

will someone just think of the children!!!

I still leave mine in the car [70s child]

I parked in an asda p&c space. I had no kids with me, but had the car seat in the back seat. I was picking up my mum and my toddler inside asda. When I returned to my car with my ds and mum asda had put a notice on my car telling me these spaces were reserved for parents WITH children.

I was a bit WTF initially, but after a bit of a think I was rather proud of asda for telling me off cos it had looked like I'd parked incorrectly.

I once saw a porsche being towed away because it had been parked in a disabled spot for hours. That really made me

To those saying "what's the point" of P&C spaces, I'd say the point is to protect other peoples cars from my children (and other little darlings like them). DS3 in particular was very fond of throwing his car door open and destroying the door of the car next to us (hangs head in shame at the memory of the arguments, the expense and the stress). Things came to a head when he was 3, he left a trail of destruction across South Australia despite our best efforts (2 other small DC to see to as well as DS3).

When a P&C space is not available, I park as far from the door as possible, preferably at the end of a row to minimise the change of my car being damaged by someone else, or my child doing it. That is the point of the P&C, however, unlike disabled spaces, they are not legally protected, they are a courtesy provided by the supermarket so people don't have to follow the rules.... they should of course :)

Sorry bejeezus
I mistook your meaning.
I hope she feels better too.

Thing is, most behaviour in supermarket car parks is wrong. They bring out the worst in people (non-driver on moral high ground here).

And continues when you get inside the supermarket generally.

so do supermarkets, bring out the worst in people that is.

My daughter who has challenging behaviour amongst other SN once had an episode by the sausages and she took to the floor and people tutted at her, said good grief to me and then just randomly stepped over her I am sure in any other establishment that wouldn't happen.

At work we closed of an aisle because an old lady had collapsed and we were waiting for an ambulance and customers get really stressed out and angry about it because they need some cornish wafers etc. It is like all normal manners are left as you enter the perimeter of retail r us

Hopefully the woman has calmed down and is feeling pretty mortified by now. While her reaction was extreme it does typify a certain mind set that some people have about these spaces. To my mind, if an elderly person, or someone who has recently been ill or is recovering from surgery, just to give two examples, wants a space by the door then live and let live. They're not being selfish lazy self entitled twats, they just have a need of the space on that particular day.

By the way, what is the etiquette if you drive up to the supermarket on a busy afternoon (childfree, perfectly healthy) and the only space left is a P&T spot. Do you park in it or do you go home without your shoppin in case a mum with a child drives into the car park five minutes later?

We had a very similar situation after DD was born.

DH dropped me & one day old DD at supermarket entrance on our way back from the hospital (before a bank holiday-busy) & then moved the car into a P&C space. A women then blocked him in, luckily his phone rang & he answered it outside the supermarket & saw this.

DH can be pretty cutting (writes stand up) & he was rather sleep deprived as DD was born at 4am. I can't remember exactly what he said but the women moved her car, in tears, and reversed into a lamp post. Karma.

You park there, Jusfloatingby.

I wouldn't park there floating. I would go home. If every space was taken in the whole car park except one P&C I would not want to be in that supermarket.

Is that good breathless???

I did think that bejeezus. Getting spoken to by a a tired man, bursting into tears and crashing your car.

Bejeezus: no clearly the lamp post incident was unfortunate. But, really, can you imagine it had we got back to the car with a hungry newborn & been unable to drive home as we were blocked in.

To all those whose children open their doors into the cars next to them, whatever happened to child locks?

toobreathless Why did you need to go to the supermarket on your way back from hospital, and why didn't your DH go into the shop or keep the baby in the car with him? it was the last place I would have wanted to be on a bank holiday having given birth hours earlier. Just curious.

oldmum42 CHILD LOCKS and get the children out yourself - I would be LIVID if my children where so disrespectful of peoples cars

I just had the maddest one yet - just parked in a NORMAL space ...in the lines ...next to a BMW parked at a stupid angle - get my children out (while holding the door to avoid dinging) and the owner of the bmw comes over and says 'ohhhh I will have to move my car wont I to get MY children in ....sigh sigh' - I replied 'well yes possibly but I am perfectly legally parked, well within the space and you have room to open the doors both side' ...she sighed again ...I left her to it!

To clarify DH would never, ever had been rude or abusive. Just very sarcastic.

SparklinglyBrook: I felt fine, wanted too & after a long induction process we needed a few basics. The next day was a BH as well so shops shut then.

Sarcastic enough to make someone cry.