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?

No but he's a big boy and it's a struggle to lift him in and out of the car

And we need to be able to open the doors properly to fit in all his beers

Aren't pensioners allowed to smoke then?

If he'd moved, how would she have been able to find him when she came out?

Maybe he had a problem with your sense of entitlement and didn't think your judgeypants looked very attractive?

as i said your flogging a dead horse with this one. you wont be heard over the drowning sound of your selfish, you didnt have them in my day, etc etc.

Knowing a space is designated for parents with children (so that she/he can get the children in and out of the car easlily and safely), and then thinking, 'fuck that', and parking there when you have no need to is SELFISH. End of.

P and c spaces are a luxury really. Blue badges are hard to get and are not a luxury. I don't suppose there is any chance that you were in sainsburys two years ago screaming at me when I asked you to move from the disabled bay as there were no p and c spaces left. Oh and then watched me struggle with a very ill boy and his wheelchair. Then told me he could walk so why did he need a blue badge. Never mind turned this into a personal rant at the end of the day YABU. Luxury not necessity.

I am still puzzles as to why he wasn't helping his wife.

lol at 'blimey why are you all so angry anyway?'

I wish we knew, olimpia, I wish we knew.

I have 4 cats.

I am going to collect all the cat shit they create and go and scatter it in the P&C car parking spaces in Sainsburys tomorrow, and hope that people will be scandalised enough to start another thread about such subjects.

Maybe we actually ARE all on our period?

Are you a man Bodacious ?.

Pretty pointless to be angry on an internet forum really, Save it for important stuff in RL.

In Finland there are no parking spaces. At all. Ever.

Bodders I seem to recall you parked in a P&B space (b for boil)

How is Godders btw?

Godder's has gone.

I kinda miss him ( and the parent and boil space) but at least I have my face back.

what do you expect they're all mad old cows

You should have gone in and stolen her walking stick. That will learn them! I sympathise i struggle with parking and the limo.

OP you chose to have children I am guessing? It was your choice. People with arthritis don't chose to have that do they?
You do not have a right to have easy access, you do not have a right to mother and child parking bays, it is not a legal right rather a gesture by the supermarket.
Honestly, you need to stop sweating the small stuff, life with kids is going to throw a lot worse at you than this.

Infact OP after this thread you should be feeling humbled. Just think of all the mothers around the world facing the most unthinkable difficulties. Those whose children most likely won't make it to their first birthdays, those who have no food, no homes, live under oppressive, violent regimes, those who are raped and tortured. Just think how they would react to your fussing over not being able to get the parking space you wanted? These women who walk for miles and miles just to get water, have no access to health care?
Think on it OP, you are blessed and very very fortunate to have what you have, and it's still not enough?

YABU for all the reasons already listed - which are the same reasons that are always listed on these threads...

However... The old man is also being unreasonable, sending in his arthritic wife to hobble around the supermarket, while he sits out in the car 'avin' a faaaaag.

Good of him, though, to inconvenience a parent and child out of a park rather to make it easier on the old dear, rather than his own lazy arse.

oooh, smoking, parking, old people....

this thread ticks all the boxes

UABU

My DM now has a bluebadge, but it took years to get. Arthritis in her knees makes getting in and out of cars really painful even with the door wide open.

I doubt she parks in PC spaces as they are a bit few and far between in her rural area.

sodoff I did have that thought, Mrs hobbling around the shops whilst he is relaxing with a nice fag in the car. Naughty!

I do admire his balls of steel though sparking up in the mother & baby spaces.

I don't know why supermarkets feel the need to put Parent and Child parking spaces so close to the store. All you need is extra space to be able to open doors fully so you can access children in car seats and then a clear, safe footpath up to the store (rather than having to walk in the road). If the supermarket provided the spaces away from the main door, it wouldn't be such a problem.

To a mother her offspring are always her children, by this reckoning, as long as you have 1 of your offspring with you then, so you are entitled to park in a mother and child space !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I agree with Scholes34. The P&C places should be at the far end of the carpark. I never used the ones close to the entrance because it's always so busy there and an escaped toddler could end up in serious trouble. Much better at the far end where it's quieter

Hahahahaha.

Get a smaller car

Do you have one of those buggies that's the size of a Mini Cooper as well?