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.

Maryz Mon 23-Apr-12 15:07:10
Well, I had a four year old (a bolter), an 18 month old and a newborn, back in the days where three were not only no P&C spaces, but [shock, horror] no double trolleys.

I used a combination of trolley/reins/sling.

Maryz - I just tethered mine to the trolley park, much easier and less impulse buying to shut them up too I found.

daisyrain - yes. I am nearly 42 and my Mum will use them when she has me with her.

my Gandad is 93 and if someone wants to park him close to the door so he does not need to shuffle across the carpark they should. He has only just got a blue badge, but he is in his ninetys.

So there!!!

"Surely you just park next to an empty space?"

what do you mean?

what happens if someone comes and parks in that empty space?

:)

what happens if someone comes and parks in that empty space?

I never park in P&T and I have 2 kids, one being a wriggly baby.

I don't have a problem with the spaces, or who uses them. The only problem I have is of inconsiderate planks who don't park properly, leaving me with even a smaller space to get out. Especially those who park next to me AFTER I have parked, and left me with about an inch. I ALWAYS make sure cars either side of me have enough room to get in and out without too much trouble. Wish others would do the bloody same.

titfortat - I find that taking up two spaces with inconsiderate parking does the trick

"I never park in P&T and I have 2 kids, one being a wriggly baby.

I don't have a problem with the spaces, or who uses them. The only problem I have is of inconsiderate planks who don't park properly, leaving me with even a smaller space to get out. Especially those who park next to me AFTER I have parked, and left me with about an inch. I ALWAYS make sure cars either side of me have enough room to get in and out without too much trouble. Wish others would do the bloody same."

so what you are actually saying is that by using the normal spaces you do run the risk of someone parking like a twat and making it difficult for you. Wouldn't it be so much easier for you to use the parent and child spaces or am I missing something?

I must admit I always check the cars next to me for car seats and park accordingly

freddy05 Mon 23-Apr-12 14:12:32
I had a disabled women ask me to move and park somewhere else so she could have the parent and child space as there were no disabled spaces. Fool that I am I moved but getting three kids out of a car safely and across a car park was not the easiest thing in the world!!

bugs me too.

WTF

I mean seriously WTF?
was this post from under a bridge of for real

what happens if someone comes and parks in that empty space?

You abandon DC and drive home, with a note attached to the other car explaining that as they have chosen to park there and mildly inconvience you, they have not taken on full responsibilty to get DC home.

I witnessed an elderly disabled gentlemen being politely told off by a store assistant,for using a p&t space, he was told because he had a blue badge he SHOULD have used the disabled and he wasn't to park there again. It didn't matter that the p&t space was easier and safer for him to use

"It didn't matter that the p&t space was easier and safer for him to use"

why was it easier and safer for him to use? Which store was this?

It was closer to the entrance and he also didn't have to walk through the car park to get to the entrance

People go a bit crazy around P&C spaces, I was at the supermarket last week and had been lucky enough to get one, if I hadn't then no big deal would have parked elsewhere but as there was one free I used it. When I came back to the car someone looking for a space saw me unloading the trolley and sat there for ages waiting for the space while I went and put the trolley back and then strapped DD into her seat, there were at least 4 cars held up behind him because he was so desperate for this space despite there being loads of spaces free in the first row of non P&C that he could have parked in right away.

I love these threads. Places I used to drive past, thinking they were mundane sites of everyday commercial grind, I now know to be pent up magma chambers of outrage. It makes me quite giddy.

so that store has its spaces for disabled parking away from the store in the middle or other side of the carpark while its p&C spaces are right by the entrance. That's a bit crazy!

which chain is it?

someone should politely explain to them how stupid that is. All supermarkets I can think of where I live have their spaces for people with a disability right next to a walkway which leads to the entrance or near the doors.

I witnessed an elderly disabled gentlemen being politely told off by a store assistant,for using a p&t space, he was told because he had a blue badge he SHOULD have used the disabled and he wasn't to park there again. It didn't matter that the p&t space was easier and safer for him to use

Well the store assistant was an idiot. I park in the P&T spots when the disabled bays are full. I'd like to see a shop assistant explain to ds1 he had to wait for a disabled bay (I'd send them the bill for the shattered windows, he doesn't really do waiting).

It has spaces for parents and disabled running along side a walkway but the walkway is closed off by bushes so is only accessible either end, as all the disabled spaces with easy access where full he used the next available easy access space

A new store in our town placed all P&T places slap bang out side the store and disabled spots at right angles to the store, so disabled people have to walk down a walkway and across a zebra crossing and passed the P&T to get to the entrance. Its a sign of who the store values/cares about more.

I'm currently boycotting them, not that it matters to them but it makes me feel better.

avocado that is like the layout at a store here also (starts with a letter between S and U!)
p&T nearest the door at right angles to the store BUT you drive into a sort of a covered walk way with trollies lined up ready for you at the parking spaces
disabled is at right angles to that along the store itself but further from the door and trollies and the walk is not covered from rain until they get to the parent bit, then it's covered from there one in

that is just plain daft. most parents can walk, they just seem to be unable to use a normal space.
a disabled sometimes can't walk so needs the extra space and to be nearer the shop

When we were kids my parents abandoned us all in the park up the road while they went shopping. Sometimes they even stopped the car before throwing us out. I swear my dad looked disappointed when he came back and found we were all still there.

I think the car park layouts go to people's heads, some think that because there are P&T spaces, and they're in prime position, then it is an OBVIOUS sign of their need, and that their need is greater than the elderly/disabled token spaces which are shoved off to the side, and only as few as the store can get away with

it is not

it is an obvious sign of their spending power, and they (as a whole) have greater spending power than people struggling financially because of disablilities