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

Anything that stops parents and children using my car as a door stop is a good thing :)

But I do think that they should be at the back of the car park with a clear path to the front of the supermarket.

I'd have told OP to fuck the fuck off, too, if she'd had a go at me for parking perfectly legally in a PFB space if I so chose.

I like to park in P+C spaces because I've got a big car and it makes it easier.

Where I live traffic wardens come into supermarket car parks and issue tickets to people parked in the wonk or taking up two spaces.

Stinky, btw, I wasn't saying you was. But the OP did, and I am using her as an example.

I just don't understand. I want to be in and out asap, so much so that all I am bothered about is moving traffic and take no notice of anyone getting in and out of other cars. I thought everyone was the same, but maybe not.

I just find it sad that people do kick off at others without knowing the whole situation. As I said, maybe I am biased because of my experience. My Uncle was everything to me and had brought me up like his own daughter, and I looked to him as a Father. Seeing him getting so upset/confused and not even recognising me in his state of confusion whilst calling out for his Mum at aged 40, was heartbreaking and all because of some irate woman who was pissed off that she had to park further to the back of the supermarket.

I've seen parents with young children park in disabled spots when there are no P&C spaces free...

THAT is fucking outrageous.

dragging them on their reins!

Ds can't walk properly but does death leaps out of trolley.

Wonder if it's acceptable to duct tape them into the trolley?

They don't! The bastards! That's unfair I can't help not being able to park! I go right out of the way though. Never had no trouble (practically in bushes)

Where I live traffic wardens come into supermarket car parks and issue tickets

Either they're not supermarket carparks, or they're not traffic wardens.

You have to be careful with strangers, they could either have a valid and upsetting reason for parking there, or brain you!

But if it's so easy to get multiple children in and out of a normal parking bay surely it's even easier to get just yourself in and out?! I completely understand why some people who have illnesses would need closer/ bigger spaces and have no problem with that but there are people on this thread who are saying they use them just because they want to. And their reasoning is that people with children (and those with an illness l) don't need them as much as they do. Really?!

Sorry. I do know that the chances of others being the same as my Uncle are slim, and maybe I should just stay off as it makes me so emotional remembering as his death is still raw and I hate that our last trip out was ruined, and I have that etched in my memory.

I just wish people would think twice, as you just have no idea of the circumstances, especially to illnesses that are not obvious to the eye.

I will leave this thread as my eyes are welling up as it is and I am meant to be celebrating

Sorry again.

Oh shullit sorry your upset x

As usual, Worra nails it.

What about grandparents who take their grandchildren out? If I've got kids in the car I park as far away from the store as possible; there is always space because the lazy lumps are duking it out for P&C spaces at the front of the store.

Disabled parking = sacrosanct. P&C parking? Not obligated... and not enforceable - and I don't care.

It's annoying that people without small children will use these spaces but a bit ott to moan at person doing it.

It wasn't until I joined Mumsnet that I realised how entitled some people are when they have children.
It's a parking space FFS, what do you do on holiday or in a shopping centre?
Or do you just spend your life going to the supermarket and whining if you don't get a place?
Get a bloody life.

shelly they do, they even come into the multistory car parks at the shopping mall sly gits

Stinky, parents are not entitled to those spaces. That's the point I think Lady was trying to make.

LadyBeagleEyes it's not about feeling entitled, it's about being polite and lookng after those who may be struggling more than yourself.

I would never dream of using a parking space marked "parent and child" if I didn't have a child with me!

I wouldn't call it inconsiderate or rude either tbh, but telling Lady to get a life is at the very least the latter of those things.