to have shouted at the knobhead who parked in a parent and child space?!

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(pre-thread warning: I'm a bit of a grumpy arsehole most of the time)

So, about two hours ago, myself, DH and DD (6 months) went to tescos. Headed for the parent and child spaces, but they were all full. I saw a couple, probably in their mid-30's loading their shopping into their car - not a child or car seat in sight. So DH pulled into a space just across the way from them. I made a big show of struggling to get DD out of her car seat in the normal sized space, and as we walked past I said "nice to see you struggling to get all your kids into your car in that massive space"

The man didn't know what to say, and the woman just put her head down and pretended not to have heard me.
Was I BU? Or does everyone else get The Rage when childless people park in parent and child spaces?!

One thing I've noticed is how some car parks don't have p&c places and hardly enough room to park a car in, yet those that do have larger spaces anyway.

You know OP I might have been annoyed too. But there's no way in hell I'd waste time posting on here about it - so many better things to do with my time.

I don't Park in p&c spaces although I have two dc. If I took my nan shopping who can't walk very far and parked in one of those spaces and some cunt thought they could shout at me I'd shout back even louder.

It would be a full jeremy kyle affair if any person felt they had the right to shout at me especially when no one has more of a right to park in those spaces.

and I'd headbutt you if you got in my face

I just dont get it. Why people challenge it at all unofficially.
People know full well its a P&C space. They also know full well they dont have kids. AND they are more than aware they shouldn't be parking there.
Has anyone ever when they challenged someone had someone say 'oh yes of course, I will move immediatley'

YANBU. Drivers have the sense to not park in disabled unless they have a blue badge

Sadly untrue

I have never used a parent and child place and have never struggled to get a child of any age out of a car. Op two able bodied adults shouldn't have felt this a struggle. Were they right to park there childless who knows they could have had a child with them when they parked the woman could be pregnant or recently gave birth one of them could be disabled or they may just be rude people who didn't care less. They also could have been nasty people so antagonising strangers in a car park over a non issue seems like madness to me.

They should just be done with parent and child spaces and make all parking spaces a decent size.
The problem is they put p&c spaces right near the door and make them bigger spaces. Therefore lazy people and their who don't want their precious car to be scratched will all park there. So until all spaces a decent size or p&c not right near the door, someone will park there when they aren't suppose to.

There are a lot more p&c spaces in the shops near me now. Used to be 5/6 when my do were small so I would park near the back of the car park, plenty of room there and Dc in trolley or buggy.

I was at the new alder hey last week. Other than staff I think it's safe to say 90% or more of those going will have children with them. They don't have one p and c space and you know what? Everyone was managing!

P and C spaces do seem to create a sense of helplessness amongst some people.

Yanbu.

Some right lazy fuckers on here get angry about people with small kids actually wanting to use p&c spaces because, I dunno, they want to feel superior that they can get a car seat out of a regular space.

I don't understand it at all.

Of course people will start on about blue-badge spaces to try to make you think you're being disabledist, when this is nothing to do with your post.

I'd park at the far end of the supermarket car park, as long as there was a safe passage to the store and I could actually open the doors. That's the point of p&c.

I'd say something to the lazy fuckers too.

You are so passive aggressive OP. Im young, childless and disabled (not in a wheel chair so i look healthy enough to an onlooker) and sometimes i park in the child spaces if the disabled ones are all taken (pretty often). If you had've said that to me i would've told you where to go. Try not to judge others, she could've been pregnant or in pain due to an illness? Why did you care so much? its kind of strange that you went after them like that. Leave people alone in future.

This thread is actually making me want to start parking in those spaces just to annoy the frothers.

They should be renamed accessible spaces, for use by anyone who feels the need. There may be some abuse of them but better that than entitled parents having a go at someone with far greater difficulties than themselves.

Made a big show of getting your dd out of the car seat?

Did you do a bit of a tap dance followed by jazz hands?

This thread is making me want to drive over to the next town's Tesco that does have P&C spaces and settle in for unsavoury shouty embarrassing shenanigans aplenty.

Bet I wouldn't see any though. Same as I have never seen a row on a bus about a pram.

Hahahaha Elsa so funny. I imagine the young couple wouldn't have even noticed if she had done that they were probably too busy putting their shopping away and minding their own business

It reminds me of that film with Michael Douglas (Falling Down?) where nice respectable man turns minor irritants into massive rage and starts taking people out with a Glok.

Watch out for irritated people bearing Gloks.

Hmm.

If this was a different supermarket from Tesco I would think you are the fucking stupid woman who was like this with me this week.

In my case, all the (7) blue badge spaces were full ( I have a BB) and I genuinely can't get out on my crutches, let alone my chair, unless I have a wide or end space. I got a PA comment from someone who saw me sitting in a P and C space with my legs out of the door with no DC (waiting for my sticks).

I didn't say anything back as I couldn't be arsed with it all ATM quite frankly, but it has put me off going out since. Funnily enough this was Waitrose and the second incident (first was also waitrose) I've had over parking which has made me fed up enough to go home and cry. I had actually put my BB up on the dash but the woman came from behind the car and didn't look.

sparkling we could camp out together and eat buns then it would be a real bun fight.

I do feel sorry for folk who start these threads.

They obviously expect a bit of parently solidarity with it being a parenting site.

Then get mauled horribly

I make no apologies for mentioning disabled spaces on here. If even one person reads it and realise they are giant knobbers for parking in disabled spaces with no badge to go to the gym then that's one less giant knobber around.

"however did our parents cope"

I think because cars were narrower whilst parking spaces were much the same size, giving more room between cars. Cars have been made so much wider over the past 10-15 years. Even minis aren't small any more. Get in an old car and see how much easier it is to park.

Don't let the dickheads keep you indoors purple.

This thread is actually making me want to start parking in those spaces just to annoy the frothers.

Me too except I always have the DC with me so no-one would bite

Count me in Brand. the Tesco I am thinking of has a Costa and is 24 hour. I will buy you one of those giant chocolate teacakes they do if we get sick of buns.