Parking thread with a difference

[Gentleness]

Ok, I get that there are people on here who think Parent&Child spaces are loads of cobblers, but they do exist so let's just leave that debate to one side...

Saw something in the P&C row of parking today that stunned me. I was waiting for a space (2 toddlers, spd is agony today and I needed essentials so happy to wait for an easier time dealing with lifting & strapping them in etc). Another car was waiting too, arrived a bit after me.

Two women, with one toddler, were having a long conversation by one of their cars, aware of the cars waiting but carrying on. After about 5 minutes this was mildly irritating but I was more concerned about my hips than wasting time. Anyway - one walked off with the toddler to her car and sorted the lifting, strapping, packing etc while the other turned to her car, also in a P&C space and started on her trolley.

None of her stuff was bagged up - she had a pile of new carrier bags and proceeded to pack a trolley FULL into the bags and then put them in the car at about half the speed I'd do it! By the time I'd parked in the first space, unpacked 2 toddlers, potty, nappy bag, bag of shopping bags, hand bag, put them all down again because one toddler was trying to wipe copious amounts of snot on me, sorted him and got organised to walk to the trolleys again, she was less than half way through packing up her trolley. No child and no child seat in the car. The face on the man waiting behind me was picturesque - he must have been waiting getting on for 10 minutes by then. I tried to give him a commiseratory smile but it's a hard expression to pull off.

How weird is that? Would you think that was weird? It was drizzling too, heavy enough for us to be really damp by the time we got to the trolleys. There was no lack of parking spaces equally near the store, normal ones and disabled ones. What was she thinking? And why not at least get your bags packed under shelter in in the store? It was very odd. Odd enough that I feel like I must have missed some really obvious explanation.

[Gentleness]

ihearsounds, if dh had done the shop he was supposed to do before leaving on his business trip, we would have had enough bread and milk for today's lunch and evening. Sometimes online isn't quick enough.

Man alive -is anyone actually READING here? It's not potty training in the supermarket! It is taking precautions because yesterday our potty trained child had a bout of incontinence and I didn't know whether it was one day's upset or something that was going to continue today. I've never needed to put him on a potty in the supermarket before and hopefully never will, but I think the staff and customers would rather safely contained wee than puddles all over the floor, which is what happened yesterday.

[LadyBeagleEyes]

Nappy pants Op?
Though we didn't have them in my day.
Or maybe we did, is it just me that's forgotten everything about those early milestones?
There's so much I don't recall, I can't remember when ds went on solids, at what age I gave up breastfeeding (it was quick though), the exact day he sat up or crawled.
I suppose MN wasn't around then though, so I just went with the flow.

[Fakebook]

I thought there might have been a helicopter parked in a P&C place. That would have been different.

[MrsKeithRichards]

Anyway I'm a cow, if someone was waiting for me to vacate a space I'd pack the kids and shopping, return the trolley then have a fag at the side of the car. That's what I'd normally do, and I hate bein rushed!

[LadyBeagleEyes]

You're evil MrsK.
I'd do the same.

[MrsKeithRichards]

Then I'd change my shoes before driving away

[PickledFanjoCat]

Now that would be a parking thread with a difference Mrs K...

[Softlysoftly]

You could tease them by getting in, turning ignition to light fag then getting out again

Which would pee DH right off as he's a wait for a space person

[MrsKeithRichards]

Pop on my driving gloves and give the a jaunty tip of my hat on the way out.

[5inthebed]

mrsK

I'm still what the AIBU is about. You got a space, what's the issue?

[VinegarTits]

i think you should check that your dc doesnt have a water infection, all that weeing doesnt sound normal

i also think you would be safer shopping online in those circumstances, letting your child piss in a potty in the middle of the supermarket is just gross, there are ways around it op, Tesco/Asda delivery?

[VinegarTits]

oh and if your going to use the 'online shopping not quick enough excuse' and you only needed bread and milk, you can get that from your local milkman, or the spar down the road

no need for a supermarket trip imho

[VinegarTits]

and tbh i find your behaviour odder than the woman packing her car in the rain, hth

[AreAllMenTheSame2]

Op yes I would of found it weird too, and I cannot think of a reason why she did this, unless she herself was in pain therfor couldnt pack quickly becaue of this? Hmm i don't know. Sounds bizzarre to me.

And I wouldn't let yourself get drawn into all of this^^

some people just love a good row

[Woozley]

I've had people drive off and find another space because they can't wait an extra 30 seconds for me to strap a child into the back seat. I can't imagine anyone waiting ten whole minutes.