To DESPISE people who intentionally park in m&b spaces!!!!!

[Carys62]

Today I was trying to park my car with my 2 young children outside the supermarket but couldn't get a baby space. I then saw a woman get out of her car from a mum and baby space WITH NO CHILD! She just parked, got out all alone and strolled into the supermarket with a smug look on her face . (OK there was no smug look I just made that part up but I just imagined her smugness) Whilst I huffed and puffed across the whole car park with an unruly 4 yr old and baby in buggy!!!!! IT INFURIATES ME !

I shall continue to park in them whenever they are nearer than the BB spaces or when I have 21 year old dis with me and anyone who doesn't like it can do one.

Its not about the distance to the shop, its about being able to get the door open more than 10 inches.

Surely, surely there cannot be any more to say on this topic?

So if P&C spaces were at the back of the car park you wouldn't use them?

My bad :-
Parent child space??
I don't know what the proper term is
Didn't mean to offend

I'm sure it is an inconvenience, and I have never done it myself, but I just can't bring myself to care. Though there are usually plenty of spaces at the supermarkets I visit. Enough so that if you do need a bit more space then you can always park a few metres away and not be parked in on both sides.

I don't remember ever using these spaces, not sure if they just weren't around then (16 years ago)?

Why can't you manage to walk across a supermarket car park with a 4 year old and buggy? You do realise that the point of parent and child spaces is to give more room to get children into and out of the cars, not to give you a shorter walk? How do you know that the woman wasn't disabled?

I noticed today that my local supermarket has changed the symbol for its parent-and-child spaces - it used to be a buggy, and now it's an adult holding the hand of a child. I liked it, from my own skewed viewpoint that my child is not an infant, but has additional needs not always physically obvious, that can mean extra space and safe walking routes are really helpful.

I get that OP was infuriated because this woman had an invisible child no accompanying child in evidence. People will always do it though, and from watching I'll never know whether they didn't care, were picking up their child inside waiting, or had something else entirely going on. Bit annoying, especially if already having a trying day, but part of life.

Are you Buffy the Vampire Slayer?
She used to say my bad.
She would have kicked the demon dead.

No I don't get the hate here.....if you have a smallish child that need strapping in you NEED more space. I think half the posters on here either have very small cars or older children and IF YOUR CHILD HAS A TRAVEL SYSTEM YOU NEED TO OPEN THE DOOR MORE THAN 20cm.

DD is now able - at age 5 to put on her own seat belt. its great, we don't need to park in M&B spaces any more.

Anyway I find parking behind the buggers that park in M&B spaces (with no small children) so that they can't get out works really well. In sort of a you park badly/i park badly scenario. Complaining to customers services also works as does shouting at the lazy arseholes that park there.

Really bugs me. Really.

You should be allowed to shoot these people.

I think there should be a lot more spaces for disabled people. They don't have a choice to walk

Until I joined MN I didn't know that these spaces were neither policed nor legally enforceable. I thought I would be in trouble if I used them. Now I know better I get a spot by the main entrance every time!

sooty my local tesco parent and child spaces ARE at the far end of the car park. It's not about distance for me it's about not wanting my child to hit someone else's car -damaging my car- when he lacks the patience to wait for me to help him.
I quite often park quite far away so there is a space on either side of me........only to find some bloody great big van parked right next to me instead of the 40 other empty spaces I counted.
Parent and child spaces aside. Why do people park so close to cars with car seats in the back?? can they not use a bit of common sense to realise that the owners MAY need a bit more than 12" to get s child in and strapped up??

I don't think yabu. BUT my favourite thing to do is park (parent and child) in my van, get out and make deliberate eye contact with women surrounding me- before, taking my children out of the back ( seats- with belts no windows) it's clearly a mn post let down

Dawn

All but one of the Asdas near me have the P&C spaces nearer to the shop than BB spaces are. It both baffles and irritates me. Who the fuck thought that was a good idea?! I'd never begrudge a BB holder parking in a space nearer to the shop. Anyone who does would indeed be a knob.

In all honesty I tend to go and park at the back of car parks where they should put all P&C spaces so don't often use them myself.

I've said it before...

They need to make the p&c spaces at the furthest point in the car park, ok they need more space but are presumably able to walk.

Then the others that just park in the spaces because they can't be arsed to walk won't bother.

It's not fair, but lots of things in life aren't. Rise above it as the anger will wear you down and won't stop lazy people from being thoughtless.

Dh used to call them M&B spaces. It was a very short lived phase.

Decaff I remember them being around in the 1990's.

Actually just to balance this out a bit my sister came collect me from shopping centre when my youngest was newborn and she parked in a space so that I didn't have to walk to far and could get baby in car plus push chair and shopping. When we got back to the car a woman had put a really nasty post it note on the window about the space ! All I'm saying is don't always presume. My sister was helping me out and it ruined her morning getting a horrible note from a stranger.

Why does deciding that part of your lifestyle choice is procreation mean you get a particular space? If part of my lifestyle choice was to eat A Lot of cake and thus need extra space to get out of my car why shouldn't I get a special space?

Oh give it a rest OP Such entitlement!

No P&C parking spaces anywhere where I live. They're just not "a thing". We have somehow managed to survive taking our 2 children grocery shopping.

That said, I can understand that if they ARE "a thing" it must be annoying to see people abusing them. Just annoying though... Folks on here get SO ANGRY about it! Everyone is always "fuming" or "furious" or "spitting with rage". It's not good for your health to get so wound up.