I know I was a little bit U but surely in these circs I'm a bit allowed?

[BlueBananas]

I went to Home Bargains earlier, it's quite a small car park and I'm pretty sure the spaces are slightly closer together than average spaces
I'm 30 weeks pregnant and I physically can not get in and out of my car if there's a car parked next to me anymore, my bump is just too big, so I parked over the white line meaning I had room to get in and out
A woman getting out of her car near me said "do you know you're over 2 spaces?" I told her I did and explained why, in a kind of laughing at myself way. She didn't say anything in response but as she was walking away I heard her say to her friend "I fucking hate people like that, selfish cow"
I was
So I know I was a bit unreasonable but it's surely understandable? And this reaction was a bit harsh wasn't it?
Also what do others do to get in and out of cars when heavily pregnant? Surely there's a solution that I'm missing

By 30 weeks my dog (jack russell) could stand unsupported atop my bump when i was stood upright. I frequently had to use disabled loos because a lot of places there wasnt room in the cubicle to get my bump out of the way of the door to close it. It was invisible from behind, but was basically shelf like, it probably stuck out over a foot. And it had no squish. It was taut like a bloody drum. You have my sympathies OP.

I hate selfish parking, and selfish people in general. That said, I couldn't get angry over a pregnant woman needing a bit of extra space ONE DAY for I assume less than an hour.

YANBU OP there was no need for that woman to be like that. Live and let live I say.

(FWIW I am obese, and I never have trouble getting out of my car, even in the tightest spaces.)

It's not selfish if she can't physically get out of the car by parking in the space.

It's a temporary thing and sometimes people need a bit of help, an allowance to be made.

soup that wasn't to you, we x posted.

My local Asda repainted the lines of their car park when I was pregnant with DD1 and drove a Polo. Towards the end I was unable to park in the car park except on an end (no planters thankfully) or I simply could not get in and out. People forget bumps don't squish. There is an actual human being living inside you and that person does not get smaller if you breathe in a bit!

I spoke to customer services who said they'd note it. DD1 is 2.5 and it's the same. I have my own little space now which is a bugger for most people to get into but I'm amazingly good at reverse parking and it had space for me to get out when I didn't have DD1 with me and I couldn't justify the P&C spaces. Car parks want to maximise the number of spaces regardless of how practical it is to use any of them. This was a Polo remember. God knows how medium sized+ car pregnant drivers managed.

YWNBU because sometime you've got to shop and sending someone else because the white lines are painted too close together is ludicrous! I haven't needed to do it and won't ever be pregnant again but if you needed to she was rude to swear at you once you'd explained.

Apropos to nothing. I have seen 2 women in big cars use P&C spaces over the last 2 weeks who have had no children with them. I wanted to say "excuse me did you realise you've forgotten your child?" But I was too chicken.