AIBU to tell people off who park in parent & child spaces but have no children with them?

[Ameybee]

This does my head in when I'm struggling to get 2 kids out the car in a normal space yet some idiot without kids is parked in the child space!!

I told a lady off today! I said 'do you know this is a parent & child space?' She said 'yeah' I replied 'so you're just being inconsiderate then?' She thought about it then made up some bullshit about her child being 'down there, in that shop!!' - she had just driven in!!! Clearly lying. So, would you say something to someone!???

Furthermore, it saves paint work. The number of times my DCs have flung their doors open as soon as the engine is off and hit the neighbouring car is, well, loads. If that selfish arse had left me a wider P&C space that new Mercedes would not have a dent on the passenger side and I'd not be having an argument with the owner over insurance.

Sirzy I'm not a lawyer but why are the fines not legally enforceable?

Sirzy not if you have bags carrying and three if them i'n tow.

I have parked in a P&C space with no child in the car when my lungs have been very very bad. The kind of bad where I am breathless talking even at rest. If it evens it up though, then I often have a child and toddler in car and just park in normal spaces with them.

think blind spots and a toddler not visible in your rear view mirror surely toddlers in a car park are being held by an adult so why would that matter?

Yeah they never just pull free and run off like they're 2 years old while you're pushing a wobbly trolley now do they....

I just want to know where this fabled 'quiet bit of the car park' is? There certainly isn't one in my part of London!

I love having a bit of banter with the childless parkers, but then I'm an argumentative bitch and it brightens up my day...

sit your child in the wobbly trolley? sorry but its parents jobs to teach children how to behave in a car park. How do people cope in places without P and C spaces?

children not being closely supervised in car parks is a massive bug bear of mine

Oh come on. You can't possibly blame a 2 year old running into a car park on someone being parked in the P&C space.

There were no P&C spaces when I had dd and DS. They never ran out in the car park, into a blind spot.

Idiots are a massive bugbear of mine, but hey, that's life :D

And what if your 1 year old's already in the trolley huh?

i would say people who let a 2 year old run off in a car park fall into the idiot category

I would just tell you that I was picking up my child from teh local creche. It is only very occasionally and when it hurts my back to walk far that I would use one anyway though.

errmm get one with 2 seats! use a wrist strap or reigns to keep your child close?

Yes agree p , b should be further away from the shop. Or local tesco store have p , b space's beside the door's you never could get one of them , then some more at the back further away and you are alway's sure to get one of them, think that say's it all.

YANBU, I would never use these spaces if I was not with small children. I don't understand all the people on here who think you should just suck it up. The spaces are designated for people with children, so you are completely entitles to expect them to be used that way.

It's not a case of letting them run. It's a case of them being 2 and not knowing any better.

Look, it's a health and safety issue for the supermarket. If it saves ONE child from getting hurt then they'll do it. If a child gets hit because they've walked behind twenty cars and one of them hits them then it's a sensible thing to do isn't it? Stop kids walking behind parked cars and they won't get hit when they reverse. No one cares about why or if they should have been there in the first place or why they weren't on reins or whatever.

Yes but clearly as the parent you do know better.
So you do not put them in a position where they could conceivably run into a car FFS.

So what if a 2 seater's not available? And you forgot your reigns?

'children not being closely supervised in car parks is a massive bug bear of mine'

You'd not have to worry about it if parents with small children were able to park nearer to the shop. Walking through a car park IS dangerous. Whether or not you're too small to be seen in rear view mirrors.

it's just another reason for having P&T spaces.

So people with children should never leave home Tantrums?

still soesnt change the fact you are responsible for your childs safety.

How do these people who cant walk their child across a car park safely manage to walk anywhere near a road?

Are you actually asking what to do?

Is that really a question? So, if you forgot your reins and you only had a single seat trolley and no P&C space, what would you do?

Because I don't think you can blame the idiots in the P&C space if you wouldn't know what to do in that situation.

DS is 5 months old. Myself and DH have so far gotten this far without using a p&c parking space. It nay make life a bit easier, but they are not needed. What did parents do before they were invented?