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?

If you're referring to my 'first world problems' comment, Olympia, then sorry, I don't think that makes me 'some diot' by a long way.

Firstly it's a bloody expression used widely these days in response to boo-fucking-hoo sob stories (mostly celebrities) but I found it very fitting to use with your current situation, I mean come on, stressing out because you can't navigate around your 'large car' and get in to do your food shopping for yourself and 3 kids...yeah, first world problem.

Secondly, if this sort of thing stresses you out so much then by god woman, you really don't know what stress is. Get over yourself.

The real problem with parking is trolley bays, fuck the mother and baby spaces they need trolly bay spaces so lazy bastards like me don't have to run back such a long distance to my (small) car.

I was going to post what Rindercella posted at 16.54.

I cant believe that anyone would email a supermarket to complain about pensioners parking in the mother and toddler spaces. Im so shocked!

Yeah, but it was the same person who thinks disabled people should feel guilty for using those spaces too, so clearly they were absent when perspective was handed out.

"it is NOT hard to get a blue badge if you have a real mobility problem."

op do you actually live in the real world or a make believe one?
cos you do talk bollocks

Back in my day people would have offered pensioners a hand with their bags, nowadays they get shopped.

What a horrible world this is turning into!

YABU. I park in P and C places when out with my Mum and Dad. At the age of 94 and both needing walking sticks (he won't apply for a blue badge as he doesn't want to deprive disabled people of their spaces) their needs more than trump yours. Don't be so selfish.

The real problem with parking is trolley bays, fuck the mother and baby spaces they need trolly bay spaces so lazy bastards like me don't have to run back such a long distance to my (small) car.

They should have homing trollys. We have an automatic lawn mower which takes itself back to its docking bay when its work is done. Why can't trollys do the same?

It is a first world issue just like about everything else on AIBU. And your point was??

What a good idea, you want to get that patented.

So whats the point of asking if your being unreasonable if 99% of people say yes then your just going to disagree again?

Should have said I am going to park in M&T over old people, and I dont actually CARE what you think so whatever?

My point was stop getting so fucking wound up about something so trivial!! A lot of posts in here may be first world but fuck me you're the first to report half the people on it!! Grow up!

Some people should just do internet shopping.

Well I just returned from the supermarket where I somehow managed to extract two extremely small people from my fairly wide car in a perfectly normal-sized space.

However, I did manage to have a parking dispute with another woman while NOT EVEN PARKING IN P&C SPACES. That is how good I am. Nowhere near the P&C spaces and someone still had a whinge at me.

I was parked a fair way from the entrance in an aisle that was about three-quarters empty, as was the rest of the carpark. I had one empty space on one side and about five on the other. There was then one car parked and then the rest of the aisle empty on my side. There were also three empty spaces directly opposite me.

I had put DS1 in the car and was taking DS2 out of the sling and putting him in, obviously with the door open, when I became aware of a certain amount of engine revving nearby. I looked up to see a glaring woman in an unfeasibly large car, attempting to enter the space that my door was blocking. I did a bit of a meercat impression over the roof of my car, peered around at all the empty spaces and looked back at her and did a "are you serious?" expression. She glared and jabbed her finger at my door. I did another meercat car-park reccy, shrugged and continued unloading DS2. She sat there, occasionally revving the engine at me. I ignored her. She eventually reversed at speed and drove into the space on the other side of me, pointedly parking so close that I was going to have difficulty getting into the driver's seat. She then got out, slammed her door and said "Is there any particular reason why you were deliberately blocking me from getting into that space."

"Yes," I said. "I'm an utter cow and like stopping people from accessing the only space in the whole carpark. Oh hang on a minute.."

So she stomped off, still glaring and muttering.

I seem to have some kind of attraction for parking-obsessives who absolutely must park in a particular spot or explode with fury. I posted a while ago about a woman who had a hissy fit because I had to get two children in the car before she could have my space in a not-full carpark.

I might as well actually crack on and use the P&C spaces if people are still going to get the arse with me in the normal, not-near-the-entrance spaces!

Sparkling - yes the OP may be new - but having a go at old people parking in P&C spaces? The OP will be old one day. She may find she has a bit of arthritis or bad mobility.
She may not be able to get in and out of a car very smoothly. And she may not qualify for a blue badge.

I know someone with MS who had to get to the point of using walking sticks before they got a blue badge.

I still think P&C spaces should be dropped in favour of pensioners spaces.
Even my Mum and Dad (in their 80s) who are still relatively fit do struggle getting in and out of the car and would benefit from the extra room to open doors and get their balance. Mum has some balance issues and arthritis too.
They certainly don't qualify for a blue badge though.

If anyone had a go at them for parking in a P&C space I'd be pretty angry - they have contributed a heck of a lot to the wider community and made things better for others over the course of their lives.

My point is OP you come across as being incredibly thick. Not only do you post about a real non-issue, you then refuse to take other people's opinions on board and then go on to make statements you obviously have absolutely no clue about. Of course it takes intelligence to realise when you don't know about a subject you shut up and listen.

So, please write to the supermarket, in your official position as the Parking Policeman, and give a load of bored office workers a good laugh.

I said over and over that if people have a genuine problem and need to use a more convenient space that's absolutely fine and of course I wouldn't get annoyed!
It's the fact that the man could have waited for his wife anywhere else, including closer to the entrance, after dropping her off and the fact there are losers like you who do it on purpose or out of spite or out of laziness to park where you're not allowed that I find very uncivilised.

I used to hate the MN army but...seriously, you write this in all innocence? I am perfectly comfortable to flame you and wonder why there is not a flame emoticon available for such silly nonsense. I wish edward lear was still around to comment on your thread.

dear op
as the man did not get out of the car, ho do you he wasn't also disabled.
are you a doctor by the way?

I just laugh at them, it makes them ever so angry.

kungfupanda - you are my new hero!
Awesome response to that woman.
Who was clearly mad BTW.

Excuse me rindercella I NOT thick and you don't know what I do for a living to make judgments about my knowledge of blue badges.
That's what I mean when I say you are a bunch of losers who go on and make insulting comments without any need to do so

Good grief - I posted before reading the last couple of pages. I thought the thread was still relatively light-hearted.

To the poster who actually said "uurrgh" in relation to a poster with a disability parking wherever the hell she wants, you really, really need to get over yourself. You really think someone with mobility issues parking in the most convenient place is "uuurgh"?

Babies are small. It really isn't that hard to get them out of the car. Children are small. Smaller than adults. If an adult can get out of a car then a mobile child can get out of the same car. If an adult can't get out then it becomes a moot point as to whether the children can get out. Buggies are, I concede, large. But then they generally come out of the boot and unless you are parking horizontally across the parking space, the boot tends to remain accessible.

Blue badges are not easy to get by any stretch of the imagination and there are an awful lot of people out there who just have to struggle without them. If they want to park in the "My baby might disintegrate if I have to park elsewhere" spaces then good for them.

"losers like you" Funny!

Stubborn little thing aren't you OP?

rindercella is NOT a 'bunch of losers'. How dare you OP! She is a unique and individual loser