To think about standing in the Tesco car park...

[ElphabaTheGreen]

...wearing a sandwich board saying:

PARENT AND CHILD SPACES ARE NOT FOR LARDY-ARSES WITH TEENAGERS.

I literally cannot get my baby out of the car if I don't have the extra space. Unlike Miss Thang going to the ATM who looks vacuous when I give her a filthy look for taking a space which is rightfully mine. Or the family with FULLY AMBULANT under-10s-but-over-3s.

Can you tell it was pissing it down when I went to do a top-up shop today?

Go to Sainsburys, our have traffic wardens who patrol the disabled and P&C spaces.

Or park at the far end of the car park where nobody else parks and walk a bit further.

How big is your posterior? Or your babies?

Oh dear this thread made me giggle. I may even wet myself laughing.

if it helps weight watchers etc are doing offers just now to fit in an lbd by xmas. Dunno if that would fit you into the parking space though.....? :)

Alternatively get one of these, that will sort the bastards out...

www.amazon.com/JL421-Badonkadonk-Land-Cruiser-Tank/product-reviews/B00067F1CE

naturalbaby The warden at our Sainsburys tapped me on the shoulder and asked me if i was in a hurry the other week - when i said no he said that I was a little too near the white lines and would I mind making sure my car was in the centre of the space HAHAHA

May I suggest that if it is you who struggles, then you should change your routine? And buy a waterproof jacket.

What you want is a Drive Thru Tesco - then you won't need to get out the car at all.

Two words - online shopping.

Local supermarket now displays the sign that there is a £60 fine for incorrectly parking in blue badge OR P&C spaces.

What car do you have?

They nearly have them now TessCowDirect, click and collect!

OP here.

If you have a magical way of getting a car seat, which has a sleeping baby in it, out of the car (Mini Countryman BTW) in a normal parking space with cars parked either side, I would really like to hear it. I could easily get the sandwich board in/out if it was in my boot.

And I'm not parking in the middle of two spaces. That would make me an even bigger cunt than the ubercunts taking the P&C spaces.

I have always said that the P&C spaces should be at the far end of the carpark to discourage aforementioned lardy-arses from using them. Or get a parking permit issued which expires three years from youngest child's date of birth. Or have a whip-round for P&C space parking wardens.

I know this has been done to death but I nearly slashed the tyres of a tanorexic hose-beast who didn't want to get her blow dry damp today. If rain splashes had woken DS (slept much last night? Nah...will he sleep much tonight? Nah...) I probably would have done.

Can you actually stay in your car ????

Well I trump you OP I have TWO dcs and a 33wk bump and AND my car is a fiat multipla, 1.9meters wide without the wing mirrors. And getting a 3 and 5yo into a 5pt harness and reaching around ds to belt the 3pt on him is fecking awkward. But if there's no child spaces go to a quiet part of the carpark and straddle two spaces, oh and buy an umbrella or carseat raincover!

Now, now.

They can't be lardy-arses and tanorexic, surely!

debstar you are right, it really wouldn't bother me if P&C were at the far end of the car park. In our tesco, the p&c spaces are closer to the front doors than the blue badge spaces. So the blue badges park there.

I parked my car at the far end of the car park, not a car nearby for at least 10 spaces each side. Came out to find badly parked 4x4 on each side of me, so close there was no chance of us getting in, unless via the boot. I sat and waited with DD until they came out and I huffed at their parking, pointed out the almost empty end of the car park we were in.

People will abuse the system, they will always be more in need of that space than you.

I'm amazed that my friend get's her triplet babies in her two door pug so efficiently at the supermarket. But then she doesn't give a fig about the car that parks too close to her, she opens her door as wide as she needs too, if that means it's against/rubbing the car next to her then so be it.

So I can understand the people who think they are somehow 'above' p+c spaces who probable squatted in the street, popped out their babies, went back to their manual labour jobs that night, and have never asked another human being for help, ever But why the vitriol towards the people who do feel the need to utilize them? I've never really got that. Isn't that what they're designated for? Or am I missing something?

You could try unclenching and just park a bit further away to a place where there is room.

Seriously,its just a bit of rain.

Yanbu. People who use these spaces when they don't need them are selfish tw*ts! It's really tricky to get a newborn carseat out unless you have a decent gap next to your parking space- plus all of the struggle of getting them into some kind of buggy/pram. Not to mention if you have a toddler in tow. I have a 2door car- cant afford a new one- it's doors are quite big. It drives me mad when I spend 30+ mins driving around a car park to see a single person parking in a parent n child space.

I do my food shop online partly because of this

Thank you LilBlonde!

I have a very lardyarse and have never parked in a P&C or blue badge space.

Not all lardyarses are lazy, OP.

I have 3 kids under 10 but over 3 and have been know to park in such spaces - I am not a cunt thank you - I am entitled to use them

I also have a Mini (Coop s) with 3 children when my 3rd was new born - I managed - so can you

TRY taking the poor baby out of the hard plastic seat

or shop on line - most places sell grips