To think that P&C spaces in supermarket car parks

[Braganza]

AIBU to think that where there is a pedestrian pavement down the middle of a supermarket car park, it would make far more sense to have the parent and child parking in a well lit area further away from the entrance. This would mean that the spaces would not get clogged up by drivers without children too lazy to find a space, and in some car parks could be in an area with less traffic.

If its freezing cold / raining / you've been struggling to get them to sleep all day why should you wake them and take them out of the carseat?

And end spaces are Always free... Yes?

Supermarkets put p&c spaces in to attract customers (especially since those customers are likely to be buying large quantities). If there isn't a free one, you manage, don't you?

If a disabled driver/passenger needs one because the designated spaces are all full, that's ok too isn't it?

If someone just parks in them because they have a big car or a small cock, well, shit happens...

yes I did - with all three - babies don't shrink if they get a bit wet and if I'd been 'struggling to get them to sleep all day' the last place I'd go is to do the weekly shop

end spaces, spaces next to trolly bays, spaces next to crossings, next to hatched lines or next to flower beds - yes normally I don't struggle to find one

The children's hospital near us has some p&c spaces. That's the only place I've ever seen them that wasn't retail-based.

They are always full. But then, so are all the other spaces :(

I struggled getting the car seat out for about 2 weeks before realising it was a waste of effort and just made everything more complicated than it needed to be

If its pouring with rain, and your baby is fractious and you're at your wits end... The day seems neverending, sometimes a trip to the supermarket is a total lifeline. Spending an hour out of the house, and the baby being pushed on a trolley like in a buggy will keep them asleep...

You're mad.

If it is freezing cold or raining it will still be freezing cold or raining if they are in the seat or out of it.

gordy of course they don't shrink. What a silly phrase. But supermarkets provide trolleys you can put your car seat on with a shelf thing because there is obviously demand for them. People do it.

And Gordy, personally I don't like my baby to get soaking wet in the rain, especially in winter. But then, I guess we're different kinds of parents.

surely they still get wet in a car seat?

Sirzy, my car seat has a hood, and a rain cover. Marvellous invention!

There are actually people anally retentive enough to report (presumably non blue badgers) people they suspect as not being correctly entitled to use a supermarket parking space. Really? BWAHAHAHAHA.

Bugger me Brian, a new fresh hell.

Soaking wet from the car to the supermarket how far are you walking!

Across a large supermarket car park?

How far are you walking?

by the time you have faffed getting a rain cover, unfastened the seat, placed it on a trolley whereby you cant see anything on you could have had the baby in your coat and be in the shop and done half the shopping.

I really can't understand the need to keep babies in car seats out of the car!

And then how would I carry my hypermobile toddler??

yes I'm the 'kind of parent' who used a thick waterproof all in one which was removed when we got to the shop - I also used the lie flat trollies with a soft blanket

I'm glad I am not and never was the 'kind of parent' to get their knickers in a twist over parking spaces

Then you're lucky, some people have different circumstances.

Coincidentally, removing a thick waterproof all in one (and presumably putting it back on with a full load of shopping), is just as faffy as just bringing in a carseat... Hth.

so you find a car seat and a toddler easier to carry than a baby and a toddler? For me it would be the other way round but each to their own!

Actually, I put the carseat in the main part of the trolley and my toddler in the seat... As I've said many times, my 3 year old can't walk very well.

Well by that logic, I don't need to buy my son a coat:

"But mummy, I'm cold and wet and sad..."
"Fuck you DS, you won't shrink! It's only a bit of water!"