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

[SparklyTinselTits]

(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?!

brand and sparkling me too. and can we change the signs to say precious & cunty if one of the challenged by a car seat brigade turn up

purple please don't let idiots like that put you off going out.

Just to say, if I see people parking without a BB in a BB space, I do tend to say in a smiley manner "you've forgotten to put your badge up" rather than being passive aggressive/a twat/a fool etc.

So if people really do feel the need to mention it, there are better ways of doing it and not making yourself look like a total tool if you are the one in the wrong.

Yeah but they also had those massive prams with a carry cot strapped in the back seats rather than a lovely collapsible macalaran that has a shoulder strap and weighs next to nothing.....

I don't think you did anything wrong OP. It annoys me too.

But on MN you are not allowed to care about P and T spaces. There is some kind of inverted thing going on where people think it's somehow wrong they exist. These threads never end well.

A MN real life camp out.

If we get sick of buns and end up eating cheesecake we can always end up throwing the buns like they did to Camilla in sainsburys.

these threads never start well is more accurate.

People on MN exist in real life too. Presumably they hold the same opinions there.

I never understand people getting annoyed for other people parking in the childrens and parents car space I have 4 young children and manage getting them in and out of a normal car parking space no problem, we also have a big car, sometimes I think it's just people being lazy As the children spaces are right near the front of the shop usually!

Uterus If you could please read before being offensive by suggesting some of are calling the OP disablist (which no one did anyway ). We are responding to the twats people who made the comparison all by their clever little selves.

What I hate more is people parking their cars over 2 spaces. Why?

Have I missed something on this? Are you disabled and need your DH's help getting round the shop? Or is he scared/useless at looking after his DC? Or doesn't he know one end of a shopping trolley from another? Because if none of the above apply I can't see why, as a few people have said, he or you couldn't stay in the car with DC and the other do the shopping?

We've done it that way since DS was new born and DS is now 8 years old. I call DH when I am ready and he pulls the car up in the pick up spot. Or better still, I leave DS and DH at home and get the shopping on my own (a bit of peace and quiet!)

If we have had to get everybody out one of us will pull the car to the pick up point, we unload and then the driver finds a parking space. DS doesn't get wet on the way to the entrance and the non-driver gets going on the shopping quicker.

Whilst I can see it's annoying when people without kids use the parking space, I think it's only a 'have a go at them' issue when there's only one of you with the kids. You don't have a choice on leaving the kids in the car then. But you did. So I can't see your problem to be honest.

Plus, you said you couldn't see a kid in sight. Did you check the car? Maybe they had a child, like yours, in a car seat tucked away. If it was rear facing like our old one was, you couldn't see the seat or the baby unless you peered in the window.

And, if they were packing their shopping up is it really too hard to ask if they were about to leave and wait for the space? Your DH presumably pulled out of the space you took up near them and zoomed into the space they left? If so, again, I can't see what the fuss was about.

Brand I have found an outfit for our camp out. I will patrol the P&C spaces and stand in them if I suspect underhand parking is about to take place.

In the real world most people would agree with you op.. Mums net is a strange land where mums think that mums should suffer and park at the other end of the car park and shlep across carrying our car seat on our hip even if we have just had a section. Because you know the twat in the p & c space might possibly, possible have a hidden disability and no disabled badge.
Personally I wouldn't have an altercation about it as you never know they might be meeting their parter to collect child or something . My Dh has a v unchildfriendly car and privacy glass so it isn't easy to spot our little one and the amount of evils he gets is hilarious.
However on principle I agree with op.

Where are people if not in the 'real world'?

Well I guess we all have our personal bugbears.. mine is people referring to themselves as myself in an attempt to sound intelligent. It sounds bloody stupid. Spaces created by a marketing company to make parents feel warm and happy, not so much. I remember a friend being involved in the early marketing and they all laughed how a pot of yellow paint sold more nappies and wine than prime time advertising.

What I hate more is people parking their cars over 2 spaces. Why?

Now that is crappy behaviour!

I actually love it sparkling I would so wear that. I'd like a megaphone to please.

Giles I think I just rattled around in the back of the car and then got plonked in a trolley. God bless the 1970s.

Brand It would be a fun evening.

DS would be in his element with that costume!

At a multi storey i use the spaces are teeny. On the second to top floor they actually have 'spaces for larger cars'. There's about 12 of them. The row is always full of mini/fiesta sized cars.

YABU. I am sick and tired of trekking across the supermarket car park to shop only to find the aisles clogged with badly behaved children. Considerate parents shop alone and don't expect special privileges

I'm a single parent. I'm supposed to find childcare every time I go to Tescos?

YANBU. I put notes on their windscreens.