to get angry with people in family parking...

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...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!

Tiny? Are you sure it was a Ferrari - or was that bit a joke?

Hey FENTON.
Is that you?
Are you back?

It is me, my lovely - I am back just today, thought it appropriate to use my Easter name for my return

I'm absolutely howling at the cross post between LBE and MrsDeVere!!!

Blimey MrsD, either that's one bummer of a x-post or I pissed you off in a former life

Oh and it's good to see you back Fenton

Thanks Worra

Nice to see you back Fenton
Hilarious x post with Mrs DV.

It was worth coming back just for that..

I'm pretty sure it was a Ferrari.. It was honestly tiny tho. I'll try and google it to find out what model.

Do people complain about walking further from their car? I can't see an issue with that.

You couldn't find a suitable space for a Corsa?

I despair sometimes (not really but I just don't get some of you) op you are absolutely nbu, all the points you make are totally valid. Of course it is possible to walk noone ever seems to claim it isn't but it is a massive PITA to get a carseat out if there is very little space and I have no doubt that all the people telling you YABU would be thoroughly piases off if you scratched their car attempting to do so. No it's not the end of the world but it is rude and entitled to park in these spaces without needing to.

Yes tantrums i did find one. I was just a bit bothered about scratching someone's car.
The car park I was in had quite narrow spaces

Too narrow for a Corsa?

A lot were too narrow for any car to open the back door wide enough to get the car set out.

supermarkets have these spaces designd specifically for parents with children - they are bigger to allow for children swinging their doors open and not hitting someone elses's car - to allow parents who are struggling with prams and buggies, to be closer to the shop so that parents don't have to walk across a busy parking lot with young children - therefore it's only fair that people with children are allowed to use them. It does amaze me that so may people find it offensive if someone complains that a space is being used by someone without a child - these spaces haven't always been available and I think it's great that supermarkets have designated spaces for the parents and therefore parents have a right to use them. Instead people think if you complain then you're lazy because you don't want to walk the extra few yards to the shop!! No it's the poepl who park in those spaces without a baby/child that is being lazy and abusing the child friendly places. It's wrong to take a space that is clearly marked for someone else's use - just like it's wrong to take a disable space just because you think you're going to be a couple of minutes. And this isn't a case like someone complaining that a disabled person doesn't look disabled - this was a woman who clearly didn;t have a child with her as op saw the woman (alone) going back to her car. Caitycat is right - just because someone copes perhaps with a baby and 3 screaming toddlers and a few older children then they think EVERY mother should be able to cope and park in the smaller spaces and just be done with it - but why?

Oh lovely lovely FENTON how wonderful to see you back.

P&C spaces meh. I personally like to park sideways in them, thus maximising the number of entitled catsbum mouths. Anyway, I need the space for DDs 1 & 2 so they can get their handbags out.

Used the parent and child parking afew times when my dh was just recovering from being very ill. The few mums who did the whole tut tut thing had children with them who were at least 5 or 6. My dh felt he should say sorry, as hes the sort of person who always likes to do the right thing. Myself, I would have told them to get a grip, he could have parked the car next to the tills inside the shop, I was just so pleased to see him out of the house and getting better.

of course YANBU.

is it a tradition on mums net to not understand the use of these spaces or is it that a lot of the posters are not parents I wonder hmmm .

Havnt come across sucha n odd bunch of opinion in the real world.

My local Waitrose removed their P&C parking because of the trouble they caused and left Disabled spaces which lazy people with kids try to park in instead....

Now then it's 12 years since we owned a corsa but I seem to remember they were the quite small cars right? And a 4 month old - that's the sort of mid-range model , handily portable yes? A supermarket - large shop where they supply wire baskets on wheels, some of which have reclining plastic seats form the mid-range baby model?

Get a grip OP!

There is no P&C parking in my town. Imagine.

I think they should take the 'family parking' bays away - then we would all love each other again, and realise we didn't need them in the first place.

Me too galletti.The trouble they cause.