To moan at a man parked in parent & child bay when he was clearly childless!!

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Had a lovely moan at a man parked in a parent & child bay today at a supermarket!! He told me to f**k off as he could park there as it was the first space he saw and he has a daughter at home!!!!

Carpark attendant saw the incident and told me I was out of order!!! As a result of this idiotic man parked in that space I had to struggle to get a infant carseat out of a 3door car in a normal space.

Was I unreasonable to have a go at the man??

Sorry for the long post

Pickles I think they're being withdrawn because of a case in the European Court of Human Rights, some supermarkets are phasing them out from now, others will probably wait until the cut off date.

''Took me over 5mins to remove the seat today'' Why?

Feak.

It did suggest that you thought mothers had the same need as the disabled, they don't though.

Therefore it's much much worse in my opinion to park in a disabled space.

It just is.

Oh and I never did internet shopping because I errrr liked to get out of the house and combined the petrol money to said supermarket with running errands in town.

Some people don't have the extra cash for delivery charges and actually I don't see why young mums with babies should be banished. Young mums need to get out as much as possible.

I wouldn't park in a disabled space because people NEED them, p and c spaces are nice but not needed.

If they are there though, they should be used correctly though, no? The issue of whether they should be there is something else. I have 3 children and certainly don't feel that I have ever needed one. I would not care if they were removed.

Disabled spaces quite rightly are covered by law,anybody who needs a disabled space will have a badge so really nobody else actually needs to or should use P&C spaces-it's called common courtesy and thinking of others.

Are you saying disabled people shouldn't use them either?

mummynumber2 why does the term 'special needs' parking make you laugh?

Mildred I suspect because the tosser next door had over parked and the width between the door cracked open was less than the width of a heavy car seat-not rocket science. Happened to me many a time hence us switching to a car with sliding doors.

Are you saying disabled people shouldn't use them either?

I think that's exactly what some people are saying, or at least thinking, Kladdkaka.

Sorry Pickles, I didn't mean for it to sound as though I believe mother's have the same need as the disabled. They absolutely don't.

I was simply asking whether those people who are dismissive of the fact that p&c spaces are, sometimes, used by people who are experiencing great physical difficulties after childbirth are equally as dismissive of people who experience great physcial difficulties always.

You know, if supermarkets stopped trying to out-do each other in the 1000 spaces leagues we'd all have more room.

How often are ALL spaces filled?
Cars are bigger than they were a few years ago and spaces are getting smaller IMO.
I dontannoy myself getting bothered by nonsense anymore.
Shop online, grow your own, park and pity the folks waiting for spaces fractionally bigger than yours.

Don't sweat the small stuff, and it's all that shite!

Well I suppose it depends on how you define correctly. Personally I don't do everything the supermarkets tell me. It amazes me how many people feel they are more entitled to the spaces that anyone can use just because they have marketing notices on them.

I have two DCs of differing ages (ie one that needs to be picked up and one that can get themselves out of the car) and an average sized car. Have never felt the need for the space either. Sometimes I park there, sometimes I don't.

FeakAndWeeble - you just don't get it, do you.

P+C spaces are in NO WAY comparable to BB spaces. Not even in the tiniest, slightest most miniscule way.

The passive-agressive posting of 'HTH' at the end of your post didn't help. But thanks.

Tufty- I just imagine a load of people (like me at times!) who are really bad at parking!

No I didn't imagine it would, Shelley. I should have just used smaller words. Ah well.

No Kladd but they don't because they have badges which family members can also use.I have a friend who has one for her child and another who has one for herself, have never heard of either having problems with needing a P&C space,why would they-they have badges?There are always hoards of disabled spaces quite rightly in far better places than the P&C.On the rare occasion a disabled person needed a P&C space they'd simply display their card which nobody would have a problem with and the man in the op didn't do so obviously not disabled.

Right. But you know it doesn't actually mean that don't you?

Tigger - that would be ideal all spaces made wider with the only special spaces being the disabled spaces.

Why are some people being so shitty to the op about this? Why is it being 'pfb' or 'entitled' to want to park in a parent and child space when you have children?? She DOES have more of a right than the ignorant prat who parked in the space because she has..wait for it..a child! The clue to who should be parking there is in the name of the spaces. People say why don't people with children just park a bit further away and walk. Well, why don't the ignorant arseholes without children just park a bit further away and walk?

I see what you mean now.

The thing is people associate disabled bays with physical need, and p&c with convenience.

Birth can cause complications but it's not usual is it? Whereas 100 percent of blue badge holders have that need.

Prairie I didn't say young parents should be banished, I asked as it is so difficult, these days , to park, get baby out of car, negotiate traffic etc, why not use the internet!

As for your other point that no-one other than parents should use P&C spaces, I quite often have the need to, despite having teens. There are probably 3 times as many P&C spaces to disabled spaces in our local Tesco. Therefore, if I go there the disabled spaces are usually all taken but there are always vacant P&C spaces, so I use one of them and display my blue badge. If I can't open the car door wide and park near the door, I have to go home.

I would put all the parent parking in a far corner( on the same side so they didn't cross roads). They need extra space to open the door but they don't need to be near the entrance. It would stop all the fighting.