To be annoyed that old people park in mother & child spaces?

[olimpia]

There are never enough mother & child parking spaces where I shop - be it supermarket or shopping centre - so I've started to notice who is actually parked in those spaces. Well, I've noticed it's mostly old people with no children. The other day I was so annoyed by this that I confronted an old man parked in a mother &. child space at Morrisons having a fag in his car while his wife did the shopping. He got very angry and basically said that he had more right than me to park near the entrance because his wife had arthritis. This is not the first time that I see older people without kids abuse the parking facilities for mothers with young children. In fact it happens all the time and supermarket staff just turn a blind eye!
I have a three month old baby and a large car so really struggle to park in regular size spaces and take the buggy out. But AIBU?

Sorry Salmon. Want to join my campaign? I'll design posters and everything

Yeah Id feel terrible if I had a disability, and I parked in a M&T space and some poor poor poor mother had to walk an extra few yards.

Must be awful.

AWFUL!

unmember I think you should look in the mirror, and have a good long think about yourself.

Words FAIL me.

My parents are v old and have mild mobility problems (mum has appalling athritis amongst other things). They don't have a disability badge. They would argue they don't need one being indepedent souls, but it would be nice to think, if one day when mum's knee and hips were worse than usual, no-one would snipe at her for using a conveniently wide space so she can heave herself upright of the wide-opened car door as she needs to, and walk a little less far to the shop.

If the shops were all that bothered about keeping M&T spaces exclusively for parents with tiddlers, I suspect they'd police them. IME, they don't.

at my supermarket if you are not meant to use them i.e no child under 12 you get fined 60 quid

good on them i say i have already emailed another lical supermarket about pensioners using them, with no mobility or disability issues at all.

if you are not meant to use them then dont.

YoullLaugh - it is a shocking and massively underfunded issue. And, what's even worse, their damn clothes shrink.

Whatever, Salmo, I have my artic on order, that'll learn the lot of you.

You are taking the piss surely Scarlett- you have emailed the supermarket about pensioners.

You are taking the piss aren't you?

Yes I'll join Youllaugh - if I get to be president.

If they fine you for using them fair enough no one else should use them.

A fine of £60?

But they have no status. How can you possibly fine someone

If I see a pensioner parking in them, its often hard to know, if they are truly deserving.

What I do its some simple exercises with them, running up and down the escalators, press ups, that type of thing.

If they pass I report them and hope they get a fine of £60. That will learn them! Some of them probably wont be able to heat their home for 2 weeks, but at least they didnt have to carry a baby an extra few yards!

OMG

Scarlett - I hope you are a bored schoolboy. I really do.

There should be more P&C spaces but furthur away so that parents can have the extra space but there are spaces for elderly close to the door.

at Pickled - test their recovery time too. Recovery times can't lie.
Sneaky lot are pensioners.

Be grateful there are any at all. They are not a necessity and your not entitled to one. Build a bridge AND GET OVER IT!

This again?
A ratty OP is generating ratty replies-now there's a surprise.
As ever, what these threads prove is that vast numbers of people seem to behave badly in supermarket car parks.
It is very depressing.

If I catch one faking there are serious repercussions. I fact lets just take all their cars away. That will solve the problem, and just have supermarkets for all the yummy mummys spending trillions on nappies.

I've never read one of these threads before because I thought it was a really boring subject.

How wrong I was

Salmon - That's fine. I have no yearning for power. I'll be a worker bee.

The worse people in car parks are those that park too close so you can't get back in your car or those who park over the lines.

Jins - it's all here. It's amazing.

Salmotrutta - So sorry, just realised that the last twice I have typed Salmo my computer has autocorrected to Salmon. . I'll get it right on your business cards...

PickledFanjoCat good post

No worries - you can always call me The Trouty One.

After looking at this thread earlier I developed a craving for Salt and Vinegar crisps, preferably Frisps, but any would have done. Therefore I heaved myself (pg) and toddler DD into large car and drove to the supermarket only to find pensioners all over the M&C spaces and with trolleys full of salt and vinegar snacks. Feckin bastards.

THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS of course the husband in question should have done the shopping instead of his wife so they could park in a regular space six miles away. Of course then they'd get scurvy because he'd only buy fags and jaffa cakes but how AWFUL that you were inconvenienced and weren't able to take advantage of the 'you had kids, you must have a fat arse' spaces.

Would you like me to phone the Daily Mail, I'm sure they'd love to hear about this travesty.