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?

People who get so upset about others parking in P and C spaces should ask for them to be moved to the back of the car parks, I bet there would be plenty of free spaces then!

And as for "get a car with sliding doors" because we all have disposable income ........ I drive the same car I did before I had dc. A sensible focus. Can't afford a car with sliding bloody doors! What next you can.'t have kids till you can afford a certain car thread?

TEE-as I and others have said we would still use them even if they were at the back of the car park,we don't use them just because they are closer-that is out of our control.

I don't think cars with sliding doors are that expensive are they?

we got our slidey door Berlingo because we couldn't afford a Focus .

I don't understand the vitriol for the OP. I agree they're a marketing ploy, but that doesn't change the fact that it's much harder to grocery shop with a baby/toddler than without.

Because spaces are so narrow I do on occasions even with a focus, struggle to get dc out if car when I have to reach into car to unstrap them and lift them out. I do use other spaces if none are available. But it's damn annoying when some other selfish bugger has unnecessarily taken space!

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"I used to park in a disabled space when I took my 98 year old grandmother shopping . She had a badge! She would have been furious if we'd used a p&c space!"

So what?! If they're full, I'll use the P&C spaces. In my local shopping centre, bizarely, the P&C spaces are closer to the pharmacy than the BB spaces, so I often use them. I'm not going home to avoid offending the delicate sensitivities of people like you.

Ps my focus is ancient, and full of dents due to other parents struggling to get their kids out of normal spaces

I like that.... Delicate sensitivities .

What does perplex me slightly though, is the collection of truly helpful suggestions like changing one's car, shopping online...
No. Don't want to. You do it if it's so great.
Why don't your just not use the p&c space unless you have your child with you?
Well, I definitely know the answer to that one.

Of course having dc isn't like having a disability - that is why they are p&c spaces not disabled.

Just because we coped in the 70's and 80's without them doesn't mean they aren't a valid parking solution - most didn't have cars in the 70's - nor mocrowaves, or computers - doesn't mean we shouldn't have them now.

I am trying to explain why some of us validly use the spaces. If you have a problem with that, then I give up!

I actually think it is the people who abuse the P and C spaces who are more likely to abuse the disabled spaces. It is the same selfish mindset. They don't give a fuck as plainly stated by some on here.

Nice people.

I doubt that candy

Yanbu

I don't understand the MN thing about disparaging P and C spaces.

People who abuse them are thoughtless idiots.

I can understand people with badges using them when their spaces are full. But it's people with the bugger anyone else attitude that gets me. There have been posts where people have said they park in them pretty just to make a point. Point of what? To point out they are inconsiderate?

yes, would you like to discuss it

The name cuntychops would leap unbidden into my mind and I'd struggle like blazes to not blurt out
"Go ahead CuntyChops discuss it. I could agree with you, but then we'd both be wrong"

I know they're not an entitlement.

However, I'm not disabled, and when I don't have a child with me, I don't use the P&C space - because it just seems like a dickish thing to do..

TheRealAmandaClarke Why do you doubt it? I've already told you why I will occasionally use them.

And what's the crap about needing extra wide spaces? No you dont!

Just park properly. If you cant, then you shouldn't be driving should you?

Or shop online. Problem solved!

Whistle I park properly.
I don't use P&C spaces.
But because I drive a medium sized car, someone in a van or a 4x4 sees it as an oppurtunity to park right beside me and over the line.

Yesterday at Costco (where the spaces are so big I could park sideways) someone parked so badly the boot of their excessively large car was diagonally behind mine.

I muttered darkly and had to do a 23 point turn to get out.

There is no way I'd be able to get a small baby or a 'planking' toddler in the car while these cars park like this.

Maybe I'm just a dickhead magnet