To be annoyed at people with no children taking up the mother and baby spaces

[AGivenNickname]

I popped to the local supermarket this morning to do a small shop with my DS2 (19 months). I was just about to park in a mum and baby space when some arsehole in a fiesta came around the opposite way and took it.

The bastard was on his own with no children or any sign of car seats. It may sound petty but it really winds me up when people do it - including friends of mine.

One friend often goes off shopping with a 21-year-old daughter and parks in them. Her reasoning is that her 21-year-old is and always will be her 'baby' so she has every right to use it.

Does she still bring the 21 year old to baby groups too?

really hate the term 'mental case'. Just saying.

S'ok, all is forgiven infamouspoo, mostly because of your epic username.

My oh has been known to block people in when they have parked in mum amd baby spaces - not that Id have the nerve. Quote

If he tried something stupid like that in my local shopping centre he'd be paged pretty damned quick to come and move his car.

I really wish some parents could get it into their heads that these spaces are a concession by the supermarket - they are not some kind of 'right' or 'entitlement'. Pratts who think it's okay to block people in, or loudly berate people for parking in them, or think other shoppers should simply go home if the only spaces available are P&C spaces and they don't have a child with them, really need to cop themselves on.

I will leave them free when possible, but I don't treat them with the same absolute respect that I would treat a disabled space. They're a perk but they're not an entitlement

I agree, I used one yesterday for the first time in years and had left the DCs at home. DH is on crutches and can't hobble far. I wouldn't dream of using a blue badge space but felt quite justified in using a P&C one, (he is being pretty child-like ATM!).

They may not be an entitlement but they do make it a lot easier when you have babies and small children, my local tesco used to have them right out of the way so people didn't use them just because they were close to the door/ cash machine, we always got a space.