to think parent and child spaces

[ScarlettAlexandra]

should be just that. not for any one else.

i don't even care that they are not by the door but having the extra space at the side is a safety issue especially when your like me and have two little ones and have to strap one in while the other is in a buggy or trolley. i have list count if the amount of times i have seen people (usually the elderly with no blue badge) using them.

gets my goat.

Oh no, let Scarlett have her thread, who cares if it's been said before? Today's a new day.

I think the P&T spaces should be turned in to 4WD SUV spaces as I can't always squeeze comfortably in to a normal space. It's not fair FGS.

YANBU, but unfortunately a lot of people on here like to be martyrs and insist that they should be treated as the lowest of the low because their children were 'a choice' and it is piss-easy being a parent etc etc. The thing about the legalities is nonsense- all supermarket shopping spaces are on private land (belonging to the supermarket) so the owner has an absolute right to dictate who can park where, just like I could tell someone not to park in my garden. So that's a lie. But you won't find any reasoning here, because women are so wedded to the idea that they deserve not to get any help at all that they can't accept any privileges granted to them and will come up with stupid straw-men about imaginary grannies wanting to use the parking space and how much better all old people are to us filthy, horrid mothers. HTH.

Yawn!

well anyone (particularly the disabled or elderly) can use my space, I avoid that section of the car park like the plague because it is inhabited by the most pushy-shovey inconsiderate crap drivers, I'ld rather park further from the door, closer to someone else's car who is better at parking and looks behind them for OTHER people (not just their own children)

parent parking areas are horrible! and a luxury not a need, like more disabled/elderly spaces are!

Oh god here we go.

I'm going to invent a new video game based on women attacking each other for petty parking infractions in supermarket car parks. Extra points for vileness towards the disabled. If mumsnet is anything to go by it will be wildly popular.

Why didn't you fetch a trolley first Freddy? If you do that the problem is no different to the one you'd have inside the store. Surely?

and I don't think I'm alone because I see lots of other families trotting to and from other parts of the car park when there are plenty of spaces in the parent area

yanbu.

If I have ds1 with me (who has a blue badge) and the disabled spots are full I do sometimes park in a P&T spot. I'm always worried I'm going to come back to find some loon has keyed my car.

fuck that, if it's the last space available I'm parking in it.
Not like there's any consequences

if a disabled person needed space then yes i would move of course i would move its when able bodied people use them when they don't need to and from observation its usually the elderly with no blue badge.

I'm not a monster just want my little ones to be safe. they can be the furthest away from the door toomy legs and feet work i need the extra space for safety.

Babies and Toddlers melt in the rain, disabled people don't so the spaces must be nearer to the store.

No I am a cm and mind 4 a day so have hands full. All under 5!!

I am quite happy to let an older person use the toddler space. I am fit and able thank god.

Stop whining and be grateful u can walk.

I think they should get rid of them or better still turn them into extra disabled spaces. We all manage without them in other car parks so they are not really needed.

How does having extra space around your car make your children safer?

I always park straddled between a disabled space and a p&t where possible, I don't want anyone scratching my car. I like to sit and observe the world while honking on my crack pipe before wandering into the shop to get a pint of milk.

ok logistics wise, I carry one in a sling, not easy to get them into in the gap between cars in standard spaces and then lift the other two to standing again not much space before locking up and carrying them to the store. Parent spaces at our store are close to the path, although not really close to the door you just don't have to cross the road bits. They also have a rack of trolleys near by where as the rest of the car park doesn't generally have many two seater trollies about.

All in all though I moved because she asked me too and it was less convenient for me, I didn't tell her that I didn't complain to her or tell her my kids were more important than whatever disability she had all I actually did was agree with someone here who said it bugged them.

Ooh.... a MN perennial

Nothing like a nice bit of nostalgia on a wet Monday...

when I was a lad there were no P&C spaces. Now they exist all folk do is fight about them. I think they should be abolished, the whole of the carpark near the shop turned to lawn and ALL the spaces for eveyone miles away at the back of the carpark. That'll learn ya

StateofConfusion - I always wondered about that. Is it ok to park across two spaces? I once got a ticket for going over a line and blocking the potential earning of another space in a pay-and-display car park. But say in a massive supermarket car park - do you think it is it ok? Always feel rather bad when i do shift over the line...

warms hands by the flames

....hang on, where did that dragon come fromm????????

I think everyone should have to walk to the local grocery shops with no shoes like we did in my yoof.