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Original poster

to get angry with people in family parking...

123 replies

SmileAndPeopleSmileWithYou · 21/03/2013 16:20

...who don't have young children with them!?

I spent ages driving around a car park today looking for a suitable spot to get my 4mo DS out of car seat and into the pram. I don't always park in family parking and don't really mind the inconvenience if they are full with families.

But one of the spaces was taken up with a 2 seater Ferrari that was obv far too small/low to have a child in a car seat.
Sure enough, I saw the lady who owns the car on my way back. She was alone. WHY did she feel the need to park in one of those spaces when she clearly didn't need the room!?

It's not even like I can assume she had dropped her DC off somewhere as there is no way a small child in a car seat or one that needed a pram would have fit in there!!!

How inconsiderate!

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Zookiemay · 21/03/2013 16:40

I would quite like a delorean (is that how you spell it?). Am in awe of those cool swinging up doors. That would definitely make getting the kids out of the car in a small parking space easier. Cool family car.

Was the Ferrari red? Did smoke come out from it when she opened the car door? That's what I want from my delorean Smile

Zookiemay · 21/03/2013 16:40

Atmospheric 80s teen movie style smoke obviously

Buzzardbird · 21/03/2013 16:42

If I had a Ferrari I would park right in the entrance to the car park so that no-one could get in and then I wouldn't have to shop with the lower echelons Hmm

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SmileAndPeopleSmileWithYou · 21/03/2013 16:45

I know people coped fine, I managed today because they were full! I obviously don't have a problem with it when people are using them for the right purpose. I just can't see why she needed to.

Posters who mentioned scratching her car... You're obviously right. And sorry to disappoint but I don't drive a 4x4. Just a bog standard corsa!

If this woman was dropping her DC off then fine, but I really would be amazed if any car seat would fit in there, a pram wouldn't!

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HollyBerryBush · 21/03/2013 16:46

Family parking isn't a legal requirement, unlike disability parking, so legally anyone can park in it.

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SmileAndPeopleSmileWithYou · 21/03/2013 16:47

I don't think that means they should though.

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TantrumsAndBalloons · 21/03/2013 16:52

Didn't we have this exact same thread last week?

Can we just summaries it quickly?

It is perfectly possible to get a child and car seat out of the car without the aid of an extra wide space. If you can't do it, you shouldn't be driving.

Children will not dissolve if they have to walk an extra 10ft to tescos.

The world is full of people who do annoying things.
Suck it up and move on. It's never going to change.

You can get upset by it. But next week you will be upset by the exact same thing

P and c parking is not a right. It is designed to make life a bit easier but it is not necessary. If there is no space, park elsewhere. It's simple. Do not waste 10 minutes of your life trying to work out who is more entitled to the space.

Is that it? Did I miss anything?

Myliferocks · 21/03/2013 16:52

The one that bugs me is when a car parks in P & C parking and mum gets out to go in the shop and dad stays sat in the car with the children waiting for her.

bedmonster · 21/03/2013 16:53

Do you realise how selfish/lazy/entitled you are? You know, people did used to manage before these spaces?

Oh. Someone's beaten me to it.

Op, yanbu, the but some people will always be too selfish to consider other peoples needs. Ds is 16m and has a broken leg in a plaster cast. I have to be quite careful getting him in and out of the car in case I knock it as he is in a lot of pain. I can manage in a normal bay if tossers park properly instead of right up against the side, but its more convenient to just have a wider bay. I just whacked my door open anyway today when I couldn't get him in.

Owllady · 21/03/2013 16:54

all of the major supermarkets state 12 yrs old and under

Tiredmumno1 · 21/03/2013 16:54

Tantrums you forgot the bit about telling us MNetters, oh and the popcorn of course Smile

Owllady · 21/03/2013 16:55

The one that bugs me is when a car parks in P & C parking and mum gets out to go in the shop and dad stays sat in the car with the children waiting for her.

oh I have done that :o but without the Dad. I have just left my children in the car

I have also parked in them with my 13 yr old daughter too, but she is disabled so maybe it's not such a heinous crime

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SmileAndPeopleSmileWithYou · 21/03/2013 16:57

tantrums sorry I didn't see the thread last week.
But I think you have missed my point. I use whatever space is available and if that means parking in the furthest spot away then fine. I'm getting annoyed that the spaces are being taken up by people who don't need them. It would be more convenient for people with children, parking in a different spot wouldn't have affected this lady at all!

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SmileAndPeopleSmileWithYou · 21/03/2013 16:59

owllady I'm sure a space like that would make it easier with your 13yo so nothing wrong with that!

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ArseAche · 21/03/2013 16:59

FFS just walk from any old parking space. It won't kill you. Jeez in the old days people walked with the kids from home, then put what groceries they could in the pram and hoofed it back again.
Ok that might be a bit extreme of me, but really some people do need to get a life. Disabled parking complaining is one thing but parent and child is really ridic. Will you collapse if you have to walk a few hundred yards across a carpark?

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SmileAndPeopleSmileWithYou · 21/03/2013 17:02

What is it with all the "people managed before" nonesence?
They did but we have them now and it's easier so we use them.

Same could be said for lots of things we could manage without like people used to in the 1800s

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LadyBeagleEyes · 21/03/2013 17:04

There wasn't just a thread last week, there's like this every week.

ArseAche · 21/03/2013 17:05

smile - are you fairly new to MN? Cos you would be forgiven for this thread. OP's always get flamed. If you are MN long in the tooth, enjoy your ear bashing cos you brought it on yourself! Grin

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SmileAndPeopleSmileWithYou · 21/03/2013 17:07

Once again you have assumed I cannot/will not use an ordinary space. I will and have. It did inconvenience me as the spaces in this car park where particularly narrow and it was busy so it took me a while to get the carseat out without scratching the other car.
It has nothing to do with proximity to the door. He is in a warm pram with a raincover...

Annoying when people use them when it doesn't make a difference which space they use.

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SmileAndPeopleSmileWithYou · 21/03/2013 17:08

Fairly new yes :) came on here after my 4mo was born.

Sorry if this is the same old stuff, didn't know!

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ArseAche · 21/03/2013 17:18

Oh well, in that case, will lay off you now! Welcome to MN Smile

Zookiemay · 21/03/2013 17:19

Can you fit both a delorean and a Ferrari in one p&c space?

CheeseandPickledOnion · 21/03/2013 17:19

BAHAHAHA! Will this subject never freaking die?!

If it took you ages to find a space, maybe when she pulled in the carpark all the other spaces were taken?

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SmileAndPeopleSmileWithYou · 21/03/2013 17:20

Took me ages to find a suitable space, her tiny car would have fitted in any!

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RedPencils · 21/03/2013 17:21

When my DTs were babies I never used the P&C, I used to find somehwere with an empty space on either side - so much easier than the P&C spaces.

If I was a supermarket car park planner I'd put the P&C spaces as far away from the entrance as is possible. The lazy feckers who can't be arsed walking, wont bother using them and the 'I need all the extra space to get my teeny weeny baby out' brigade will be happy (except they wont because they'll be frothing at having to walk said teeny weeny an extra 10ft).