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

[Nannyto2]

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

Parents do not trump non-parents though. Why should they?

Your post is the reason these spaces should not exist. They are trouble.

Ok kladdkak for young mum read woman with a young baby

Telling someone to f*off is somewhat antisocial...

Yes, definitely agree to disagree time.

I'm getting really bored of this now.

The supermarkets are massively to blame for these threads. Take away all the spaces full stop or move them to the back of the car park.

How do you not understand that the fact that you have children makes you more entitled to space than someone else?

It is not your decision to make that you are more in need.

Park there if you get there first. Accept you have to park somewhere else if you don't. It's not hard.

does not make you more entitled rather. Was trying to reply quickly and mangled the sentence.

But yeah, let's stop this now. It's ridiculous and this thread deserves to die.

how do you know he hasnt got an illness/injury/disability which means he needs the extra door space or to be closer to the shop?

Yes I think it's time for and now

Sirzy, I know. He shouldn't have to reveal his medical history to prove it either.

These threads really are utterly pointless though, and I don't know why I get sucked in.

Those who talk of disabled spaces and P & C spaces as though they are comparable seem not to take on board that children, unlike disabilities, are a choice. This is why P & C spaces are a marketing tool and accommodation of parents' choices is not legally enforceable.

I think that we should have a huge campaign to get supermarkets to put them out of the way, in a far corner, and it would stop the problem.

Good idea exotic

I would put it on the same side as the door-just at the far end-there is no necessity to next to the door.

Oh yes, the old 'children are a choice' argument.

I'd happily have them at the opposite corner to the door - ideally by a trolley bay. Children don't melt and do a walk in the rain doesn't bother me, but for me the extra door width is so useful!

I agree with the idea they would be better at at the other end of a car park, I bet they would hardly get used though. A tesco near here have a row of p and c spaces the ones near the store are always full, I always head to the ones at the back of the store and can always park

Before I got my BB last year I used to get really upset with adults with teenagers using the P & C spaces (this was before I realised that the spaces were only a marketing ploy). I have knee problems and would struggle to get out of the car (I also need to open the door as wide as possible) and hobble to the supermarket. However, I was never upset with parents and babies/toddlers using these spaces. Why can't we just mark them up for parents with babies or those using pushchairs? I do think, however, that they could easily be moved to another part of the carparks. More often than not BB spaces round here are actually further away from supermarket entrances than P & C spaces.

By the way, I was of the "well we didn't have them in my day" brigade, but after my daughter had her baby I realised that whilst they were not essential, they were helpful to young mums.

I don't think people would use them if they were at the opposite end of the carpark. People have a primal instinct to be as close to their food source as possible. As can be seen from the OP, being close (and struggling to get out) was of greater importance than the space she could have had if she'd parked further away.

OP YANBU, people who park in P&C spaces when they have no children or disabilites just because they can/they want to piss people off/they have a large car and are shite at driving and parking it are selfish.