parent and child bays

[fairy1303]

Our local supermarket is always rammed. I have often had trouble finding a space. There are some parent and child bays and these are great when I have to take the baby - you need the extra space for the buggy and to be close to the supermarket etc etc.

Today when parking in them, the woman next to me sprung out completely childless.

I know I shouldn't get so annoyed sleep deprived and am anticipating biscuits galore - but she was still parked there when I left and I really wanted to let the supermarket know!

There were other spaces btw, just a bit further away.

[DidoTheDodo]

One word - Ocado.

[Doodledumdums]

gordy Surely it actually requires more space to get the baby out of the car seat while it is still in the car? It does for me anyway.

[gordyslovesheep]

no just scoop them up - or in a 3 door car, which I found much easier, close the door, grab baby, open door, back out

[Doodledumdums]

Finding that very difficult to visualise!

[Katienana]

I use them because the family trollies are kept by those spaces and I need to put ds in a seat. It pisses me off when a taxi driver parks in there to use the cashpoint. I would of course be fine with s blue badge holder parking there if disabled bays full.

[Sirzy]

We need a round of applause smilie for MrsDeves post. Spot on!

[gordyslovesheep]

She's always spot on

[Charlottehere]

They are great easy to park but why do you need to be close to supermarket with one baby?

[HeySoulSister]

What good would telling the supermarket do?

[shoofly]

Mrs Devere (as usual)

[HeySoulSister]

And yes! Please can everyone remember, babies/children/parents, will NOT dissolve in the rain

You CAN manage in a normal parking spot, if you can't then you shouldn't be driving IMO

[Kewcumber]

I'm to get some kind of e-stamp made "I agree with MrsDV" will save me lots of time

[Sirzy]

I do wonder how those who can't park in normal spaces manage to go to the vast majority of car parks which don't have P and C spaces!

[2tiredtocare]

I spend 99 percent of my time with the kids so the one time I went to Sainsburys without the baby I automatically parked in parent and baby

[gordyslovesheep]

is it this Mrs DV?

[2tiredtocare]

Oh and I needed P and C spaces more when I was heavily pregnant than when the baby arrived, once someone parked so badly next to me I had to get a friend to reverse my car out as I couldn't squeeze in the tiny gap they'd left

[Kewcumber]

My mum has a BB and I hate that in some places the disabled spaces are further away from the shop than the P&C ones. People all seem to assume that disabled = wheelchair.

So my aging, badly arthritic, cancer survivor mother parks further away and painfully walks an extra 50 yards because she worries that someone like Mandy will be rude to her if she uses the P&C space.

"don't want to make it a row about who is the most deserving of a car space" - there is no argument morally or legally you can possibly come up with that doesn't make you look like a fool - disabled trumps parent every time.

[20wkbaby]

It's not the fact they are closer that is the important thing but that they provide the extra space. It's hard getting babies and toddlers, let alone young children into car seats when you can hardly open the car door because of the car next door.

Am I the only one thinking Nick Ferrari probably actually needs the space
because he is portly?

[cooeeyonlyme]

It would be great if they had a car park attendant who gave out tickets with a number on per space. Just like they do at the cinema.

That'd stop every fecker and his dog moaning about a spaces.

[Kewcumber]

But yes, someone parking in P&C spaces when they have no reason to is irritating but my life became much calmer when I gasped the reality that I didn't really need it either however much more pleasant it was

[Kewcumber]

Me too - big space near trolley park wins every time and is less stressful.

[pictish]

Agree with Mrs Devere.

P&C spaces are amere courtesy extended to entice parents in with their spends. They are not enforcable by law, and no one is entitled to to them.

Before there was any such thing, parents somehow managed fine at the supermarket without.

It IS lazy for people to use one when they don't need to, but there's not a lot anyone can do about it. You'll just have to park somewhere else. No one will die.