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 !

[ollieplimsoles]

Omg I'm actually contributing to one of these threads!

Ok my twopennyswoth is; it kind of annoys me when I see grown up kids and teenagers just sitting in the car parked in a parent and child space. Like its clear the parent has just parked there to run in and left the child in the car but because they are technically with a child its ok...

Since having dd we usually find a space big enough to get her out of the car seat and in the buggy, the space at the sides of parent and child spaces is really useful!

[Numberoneisgone]

My friend parks in them on purpose to wind people up because she is childfree by choice and feels she is being discriminated against. I think she is being a bit mad but tbh I do not see the point of parent and toddler spaces they seem to cause more problems than they help and they are not an accessibility requirement.

[notamummy10]

Anyone can park in a parent and child space but just because they can do so, doesn't mean they should!

[JeffFromTheDailyMail]

Kick her in the crotch next time. It happened in my local co op recently. Strangest thing was that there were closer non p&c spaces available. I parked in one so no need for the kick that time.

[WomanActually]

She might have had a blue badge.

[PurpleRainDiamondsandPearls]

You've been here a long time but this is your FIRST post. Congrats on making it such a GREAT one!!!!!!!!

[Carys62]

Ok...I don't like to go personal but I am fully aware being a parent I am not 'entitled'
This happens all the time to me !!
DD1 has profound deafness.. Even with her new implants I have a fear that her new found independence is putting her in danger as she now explores much much more even a car park has many new sounds she is excited about...... Adding my DD2 not being able to run as she used to just through an operation regarding duplex kidney complications and needing the pram for short distances...I do not want to stay at home feeling as though we are unable to do the family shop together.
i agree it's not the end of the world but I feel that people are inconsiderate sometimes and this annoys me.

[AndNowItsSeven]

Op your crime of " my bad" was far worse than the lady parking.

[PurpleRainDiamondsandPearls]

Would something bad happen to you if you didn't use lots of punctuation?

[MumOnACornishFarm]

As an aside, why oh why do people feel the need to question/comment on how long someone else has been on MN, or whether they've posted before? I cannot understand why this is ever relevant, or of interest to anyone. Surely people can lurk if they want, and they can post what they want. Jeeeez.

[seagreengirl]

YABU I can't drive and I managed to go shopping with a four year old. I even managed not to take up a wheelchair space with a buggy as well. I am not superwoman.

[Pigeonpost]

Because if you've been on MN for a little while you will see this same issue being hashed out again and again and again. Usually with capitals in the title. It's all been said time and time again. But some people are still RAGING etc. Give it another two weeks and it will come round again. Snore.

[Gentleness]

Seem to me a lot of people resent having to be kind. I've heard, "I never had them when I had kids, so why should you get help now?", "Why should you get help just because you've got kids?", "You decided to have kids, put up with the downside!".

It's kind to leave a space, make an allowance, provide some help for someone who needs it more than you. It upsets me when people see no need to be kind. I know it's just a parking space, but ignoring the point of it and choosing to act against it is like a metaphor for disconnected society. Maybe not a metaphor, some other poetical, sad thing. I'm just saddened by too much unaware or unkind behaviour recently. And Trump might end up president. I bet he parks in parent&child spaces...

[PterodactylToenails]

Well I have parked in the bay and got out without any children but my children were inside with my DH while I had waited for the space. To anyone passing it would have looked like I was childless.

[beetroot2]

There's being kind and there's being in a rage about thinking you're entitled to things though.

[ArriettyMatilda]

Could have been me, recently dp was driving and automatically parked in a parent and child space as we had dd in the car. We'd both forgotten she was asleep and so I had to go in alone. In hindsight I could have asked him to move.

[MumOnACornishFarm]

So ignore the posts that bore you, simple. Still can't understand why anyone wants to stop people posting whatever the hell they want. The OP said they've been here a while. But what about someone who hasn't been here for long, like me? People can't know what's gone before them. This is supposed to be a community.

[SistersOfPercy]

As you get older you seem to develop the 'can't bring myself to give a fuck ' gene.

Its a parking space, in the scheme of things it's pretty insignificant, like Rylan or Kerry Katona.

[MardyBra]

Overuse of exclamation marks gives me the hump more.

[sharknad0]

When all the baby ones are busy, it's great if you happen to have 2 adults in the car (sadly impossible when you are on your own).

One backs the car away and stops in the middle of the road. The other has plenty of space, and time, to install the baby safely at the back. I think it took me nearly 10 minutes last Saturday in my local Tesco.
I am hoping that at least one of the irate drivers behind now understand why we need parents space. I don't have a convertible, so I can't physically put my child back inside the car if I don't have the space. I doubt supermarket will ever make them bigger unfortunately.

[MumOnACornishFarm]

Well said Gentleness! And booooo to Trump.

[umizoomi]

This won't go well. Everyone here will claim you are entitled, PFB and other stuff but basically you are NU.

I don't park in P&C spaces if I don't have the youngest (4) with me. I don't park in disabled spots either. Ever.

But that's because I know that someone needs it more than me. Like someone putting a pram at the side of a car to get a baby/toddler out of a car. Or they are lifting a car seat out.

Some people are just wankers who are too fucking lazy to walk

[Froginapan]

Oliplimsoles

Or...

The teenager has an invisible disability that means their executive functioning skills cause them to regularly fling open the door, forgetting there is another car parked just inches away.

[Sellingyesterdaysnews]

Its nice to have wider parking with a pushchair, but it's not a God given right..just a supermarket courtesy / convenience

[PurpleRainDiamondsandPearls]

MumonaCornishFarm it isn't about being new. It's just odd to have a first post (whilst claiming you are not new) on a topic that causes huge debate and posted in a goady manner. It's different if you're totally new and didn't know that p&c spaces causes a massive ruckus.