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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

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

439 replies

olimpia · 14/05/2012 21:06

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?

OP posts:
Salmotrutta · 15/05/2012 19:37

Finland's quite small though, innit?

So they can walk all over it quite quickly - or use sleds.

Bet they're hard to park.

Salmotrutta · 15/05/2012 19:41

Come back TheUnMember, come back!

I didn't mean it ....

TheUnMember · 15/05/2012 19:41

In the standard unit of land mass measurement, Finland is approximately 16 Waleses.

FrankWippery · 15/05/2012 19:41

Fuck it. I'm selling the kids. They don't make them like they used to. I will still park where the fuck I want to though

yakbutter · 15/05/2012 19:42

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Message withdrawn at poster's request.

TiggyD · 15/05/2012 19:47

I read a quarter of the first post and skipped everything after that.

I'd just like to say that I'm glad many of the points were raised and I'm sure we have all learnt some very important lessons today.

I'm now going to burp the tune of the horn of the General Lee from The Dukes Of Hazard.

Salmotrutta · 15/05/2012 19:50

at yak

Grin

I'm going to amaze people with that fact about Finland TheUnMember.

And to think kids used to go down mines and up chimneys Frank - don't know they're born nowadays

Tangointhenight · 15/05/2012 19:57

Yeah, I miss damaging peoples cars with my carseat, shopping just isn't the same fun now!

RabidAnchovy · 15/05/2012 19:58

Runs round thread waving bovine penises

SauvignonBlanche · 15/05/2012 20:03

Most entertaining.

MrsAmaretto · 15/05/2012 20:04

Yabu, the problem is that the parent & child spaces are right outside the supermarket. I would prefer them to be a bit further away! My logic is that I need the extra space to get the car doors open, but am perfectly well & able to push the child in a trolley!

OrmIrian · 15/05/2012 20:11

I don't own a bovine penis. Neither do I own a tank Sad

I am feeling even more inadequate than I do on education threads...

DontHaveAtv · 15/05/2012 20:13

I dont think any supermarket needs parent and baby spaces. Why are they there? I can get my kids out of the car without needing an extra amount of space.
:o

crashdoll · 15/05/2012 20:35

Do dogs like cow willies then? My poor old fella has never had one. Is he missing out?

TandB · 15/05/2012 20:50

Surely everyone is missing a major point?

If you can't get the kids in the car, surely you just leave them in the car park and go home to put your feet up and drink wine?

Everyone is happy.

Well, OK, you are happy. The kids probably aren't that happy. And other shoppers almost certainly aren't happy.

But who cares? You will have wine and peace.

fuckarama · 15/05/2012 20:52
Princesslovelyboo · 15/05/2012 20:52

kungfu It would also make for a better thread - AIBU to keep children I found in a P&C space Grin

TandB · 15/05/2012 20:53

YOU UTTER COWBAG, FUCKARAMA!

You are only doing that because you know I want them.

TandB · 15/05/2012 20:54

Princess - maybe P&C spaces are actually for parking your children, rather than the car?

Maybe the OP was about to completely misuse the space?

[yells after OP disapprovingly]

fuckarama · 15/05/2012 20:54
Grin

I have 8 packets of them

Well, 7 now...

Atreegrowsinbrooklyn · 15/05/2012 20:56

Why should parents have priority parking anyway? As a parent myself, I cannot believe the self importance of some others over a state of being that is not involuntarily imposed upon them.

Their / our free choice to have children. Why the special treatment?

Atreegrowsinbrooklyn · 15/05/2012 20:57

And before the flames crackle......Take a look at other poorer parts of our World and what parents have to cope with there before the whining about carrying armloads of grizzling, mardy toddlers starts...

TheUnMember · 15/05/2012 21:01

Do dogs like cow willies then? My poor old fella has never had one. Is he missing out?

They go mad for them. My dogs try to mug me as I come in the door. There usually called pizzles in the UK and look like this. Or you can chopped up ones like this if you don't want to give your dog ishoos. :o

TheUnMember · 15/05/2012 21:03

Or you can buy chopped up one

BigHairyFlowers · 15/05/2012 21:05

Sure, it may be extra long, but it is somewhat lacking in girth, is it not?