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To think that P&C spaces in supermarket car parks

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Braganza · 20/02/2014 08:19

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.

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MollyHooper · 20/02/2014 20:03

I love how a knee injury has been minimised to 'sore knee' just to try and prove your points.

Honestly if you would seriously be angry about someone injured enough to require crutches using a P&C space then it isn't about the P&C space.

Dem be some issues.

ziggiestardust · 20/02/2014 20:06

I don't know how sore her sore knee was maryz, I can only go by what is written here and at the time I was on my phone so if she put details of it I certainly didn't read about it.

You would definitely get people going 'you shouldn't be in a car if you're that injured'. Definitely.

YetAnotherHelenMumsnet · 20/02/2014 20:07

AHEM

curiousgeorgie · 20/02/2014 20:08

I stand by those, they were in answer to a post about my children. And they were Sarcasm. Not serious... Obviously.

I didn't get any kind of mumsnet warning or message, I like to think they have some common sense and recognise sarcasm.

As I said up thread, I believe they were deleted because they didn't sound great out of context, and because Claudius reported them.

I'm not 'disablist'. I'm actually nice... (PromiseWink) I just appreciate P&C spaces and thought the OP made a lot of sense...

I use them because they make my life a hell of a lot easier (as I also said up thread) I didn't want disabled spaces taken away, I didn't think I should park in them... I just said that someone with NO blue badge, and NO children shouldn't feel entitled to park there because of a sore knee.

Damn... It's just the Internet! When did people get so serious... You're all in desperate need of that wine you know!!

MadameDefarge · 20/02/2014 20:08
Wine
ziggiestardust · 20/02/2014 20:12

I think that's fine georgie

It's kind of easy to take people's posts out of context when they've been deleted, for people to read far more into them that what was meant.

As no one can accurately quote her, I think that's probably the end of that.

Maryz · 20/02/2014 20:12

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IamInvisible · 20/02/2014 20:12

I've told this story on MN many times before.

I saw a entitled cow woman almost reduce an old man to tears over a P&C space once. He had his disabled wife in the car and had parked in the last P&C space, there were no blue badge ones left. He was about 80 and could hardly walk I would imagine it had taken him bloody ages to get his wife in her wheelchair, out of the house, in the car etc!

Anyhow, this bitch pulls up, gets out and starts screaming at him to move his effing car, he shouldn't be parked there, it's not for old people, or disabled people, it's for P&C. The little old man was shaking, I told her to park elsewhere, he had a blue badge, but she was gobbing off. He said he'd move, I told him not to but he said he couldn't be doing with the hassle. I was parked in a P&C bay and said to her I was moving, but she would not leave it be, so the old man did move.

She swung her car into the space he had just moved out of and trotted off into the shop leaving her child who was about 11 in the car. I looked across the carpark and their was the old man struggling to get his wife in her chair. I felt so angry, and so sad. I wanted to twat that woman with my crutches.

Ever since that day, I have thought P&C spaces just aren't worth it,

ziggiestardust · 20/02/2014 20:12

mary she said that one was deleted.

Maryz · 20/02/2014 20:13

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curiousgeorgie · 20/02/2014 20:14

And Iaminvisible.. That's bloody horrible. No one said people with blue badges shouldn't use them. Not once.

Maryz · 20/02/2014 20:14

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curiousgeorgie · 20/02/2014 20:15

Maryz... It wasn't that bad. Seriously. People have written worse and mine were taken totally out of context.

I have a opinion and I'm sticking by it. You can do the same but I'm not trying to rally the troops against somebody Wink over a parking thread

curiousgeorgie · 20/02/2014 20:16

Mary, they were. They were in reply to other messages. I have a perfect memory thanks.

ClaudiusGalen · 20/02/2014 20:16

She can't point you to it because no-one said that.

Again, I said that if you cannot park in a normal space because of your children (with the usual caveats) you should either not drive or not have children. I did not say that any children shouldn't exist.

Maryz · 20/02/2014 20:18

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curiousgeorgie · 20/02/2014 20:18

Saying I shouldn't have children is the same as saying they shouldn't exist... As I have children?!!

ClaudiusGalen · 20/02/2014 20:19

Or perhaps you shouldn't drive if you cannot park without using a P&C space?

MadameDefarge · 20/02/2014 20:19

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Maryz · 20/02/2014 20:20

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IamInvisible · 20/02/2014 20:21

I know no-one on this thread has, yet, Curious, but it does get said and I posted it to highlight what can happen because people get so bloody hung up over this piece of fucking Tarmac.

It's pathetic. You don't need it. Yes it may make your life that little bit easier, but if it's not there the sky won't fall in. I imagine you are a nice person really, you don't mean the horrible things you posted about disabled people. All this angst over a rectangle in a carpark!

Maryz · 20/02/2014 20:21

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MadameDefarge · 20/02/2014 20:23

Yeah

I was only joshing, to people not have a sense of humour anymore?

tsk.

candycoatedwaterdrops · 20/02/2014 20:23

I tend to find that people who have say "I am nice" tend not to be.

MadameDefarge · 20/02/2014 20:26

you shouldn't have children with you, would be my interpretation.

Though to be honest, as a non driver, this is ludicrous.

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