To get infuriated by people mis using parent and child spaces?

[nothingbyhalves]

It's all in the title really. A woman just told me she had parked in one because she had a dog in her car. Aibu to think she is inconsiderate?

I park wherever suits.

Sometimes we just rock up through the front door and leave the car beside the customer service desk. So much warmer that way.

People get PMs about threads? I feel so left out now. I never get PMs about anything.

catnap - yes i know it's tricky. I had 3 under 5 at one time.

Warning

Well I may just have to flounce, I never got a pm either what is this place coming to?

My mum so got it wrong! Instead of WALKING into town with 6 kids (2 & 1 yr gaps between them) right from when they were babies & then walking back with the shopping, what she should have done is INSISTED the government bought her a car & provided P&C places! I'm going to phone her right now & accuse her of recklessly endangering our lives & how dim she was for not realising how ENTITLED she was to a car because she had KIDS! Sorry,they are your kids, your responsibility... why should others be out out for them? Those spaces would be better served going to disabled people.

I used to laugh at the weightwatchers parking outside the church building where my children's playschool was.

They used to park in the disabled bay, the P&C spaces and directly outside the front door. I used to think that if they only parked in proper spaces further away and walked then they might not have to go to weightwatchers in the first place

Sparkling that's great .

Mary - bit harsh!what I mean by safely is having to leave my child in the trolley or buggy on the lane whilst cars go past because I am putting the other child in the car and I can't wheel the trolley or buggy to the side of the car out of traffics way because there is no room.

I wish they'd make ALL the normal spaces just a little wider - it would make life easier for everyone.

There's a car park near here with spaces so darn small you have to slide sideways in and out of your car - AND they have placed the upright concrete pillars so that if you go in forwards you can get out of your car but can barely squeeze past your own car and the pillar, and if you back into the space - your passenger cant open their door!

Sparkling, are you the new Olivia Ahem?

MaryZ: 10/10 for that post!

Sparkling, I have bookmarked that.

I have a feeling I might use it sometime.

Put your child in the trolley or buggy right up against the back of your car.

It really isn't this hard people. Really, it isn't.

YY it's the 'banter ahem'.

Meant - You or your passenger cant open their door.

Fluffy agree with your recent post.

I'll have you know I have 17 children under 3 and have no problem walking the 8 miles both to and from the supermarket whilst balancing a goat on my head.

Wow, this thread has genuinely been educational for me- I always thought that P&C spaces were so parents were nearer the store and made it less likely for small kids to get knocked over by cars on the way in .

But even though now I know the spaces aren't exclusively for people with children, I would still get the rage if a childless person used them as I would hate to see someone struggle with 2 or three kids and a heap of shopping going towards the back of a car park when some tosser could have been courteous and walked the few extra meters

YABU.

i rarely use them, i prefer to park in the shittiest corner of the car park where no-one is there to witness my shitty parking block the other spaces and i cam open my doors to let ds out.

they're handy if available but they are not a right.

The trouble is, Catnap, that there is only a very short hop from feeling you (a generic you, not you personally) are entitled to a P&C space to feeling you are entitled to take any other space if the P&C spaces are full.

I know it's difficult - a lot of things about managing with small children is difficult. But it is possible.

I have a friend who, when she was pregnant, felt entitled to park in the P&C spaces - well that's fine, imo. Sometimes you need them more when pregnant. But if they were full, she would park in the blue badge spaces, which is never ok, imo. But she would justify it (and did later after her baby was born) by saying "well the P&C spaces were full"

But Tee what you don't realise is that other drivers speed at reckless speeds around the carpark and never in a straight line. So having the buggy/trolley at the back of the car isn't an option either..

Just one goat, Gobblers? You must try harder.

Our newest carpark has angled spaces which are fantastic.

You know, the herringbone ones which are fantastic. If you have a car seat, you simply make sure you park in a space with the relevant back door on the more open side.

Yes, because I've never ever been in a car park to see how people drive.

::rolls eyes::

I used to drive. I used to drive my no longer a baby but was at the time niece all over the place when I lived in the US. I am very well aware of how difficult it can be with a small child in a car.

This is why I parked in the back of the car park when she was with me.

I've had my PM.