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 !

Tesco certainly had them 16 years ago. I remember you were supposed to join the Parent and Baby club to get a sticker enabling you to park in the spaces.

I don't understand why people need so much room to get children in and out of car seats. If there's room for an adult to get out the car there's room to strap a child into the car.

P and c spaces are a useful thing and it is inconsiderate to park in them If parking elsewhere would give you no great hardship. Anyone who has a disability ( with or without a bb) that requires extra space or closeness to the store can park in them on the grounds of reasonable adjustment so it shouldn't be automatically assumed that someone parking without a young child is being inconsiderate.

I don't really understand all the bother. Yes it's a nice luxury but normal car parking spaces aren't that small. I drive a larger than average car and still manage to go to the supermarket where I often can't get a p&c space. Park up, go and get baby friendly trolley/put baby carrier on. Leave trolley by boot of car. Open door and hoik baby out, plonk in trolley/carrier and do shopping.

I like the comparison between P&C parking and Rylan.

Has anyone suggested shopping online...( haven't read the whole thread)
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Formalising things does lead to arguments.

Like the table system in M and S cafes always worked fine..until they put up signs saying don't take a table until you have paid for food,people then started enforcing it to others and arguments broke out left right and centre.

Oh for gods sake, not this crap again!

I have two children, one of whome is 11 months old so can't get herself out of the car- I seem to manage just fine getting her our of her carseat in a regular parking space, so I don't get why so many other parents apparently find this impossible?!

In a few months time I'll have a newborn and a 18 month old- still won't bother me to park in a regular space. Bloody hell, our parents seemed to cope alright didn't they?!

I also don't get at all why after parking st a supermarket full of trolleys anyone then puts kids in a pram?! Just use the sodding trolley! Then it won't matter if you haven't got room to build the sodding tank thing by the side of the car!

dawn If you have a bb you are fully entitled to park there. Also heavily pregnant ladies.
I agree op but plenty will say otherwise. I also hate the way they go up to 12. I think 5 us more appropriate.

Is more appropriate.

People parking in disabled space with no badge because they have a huge 4 by 4 and a massive pram do give me the enormous rage though

If any of you are reading this you are a total dick

fanjo that is far worse.

OH NOES. You mean you had to park in a smaller space? That is like so tragic. Maybe defiant drop-kicking IS the answer.

Supermarkets have courtesy spaces..it's not the law either disabled or parent and child

Actually you are required to have disabled access spaces but not parent and child spaces.

Disabled spaces in a supermarket are a courtesy. It's private land so the priority parking can't be enforced.

OP maybe the person was in a hurry.

I think P&C spaces are ridiculous anyway.

Pearlylum so is it ok to abuse them then?

You'd think that is a strange question but from what I have witnessed many people are not motivated by morality about disabled spaces just the conscious of getting punished legally

Pearly building regulations require disabled access spaces.

Lmao at 'Travel System'

I don't know what my tablet wanted to say there but I mean the chance not the conscious

These thread wind me up far more than where people choose to park at the supermarket. Babies are tiny. Why do you need so much fucking room. What about all the morbidly obese childless people who can't get in and out of their cars. Should be provide obesity spaces too?

Thoragruntwhistle it wasn't that long ago that these spaces didn't exist.

It doesn't bother me and I've got two small kids. What bothers me is how many people Park up in disabled places with no disabled badge in the car window? I see it all the bloody time here. Another thing that really peeves me off is when you go to change a baby's nappy and the one and only baby changing facility is in the disabled toilet. I mean come on this should surely be illegal in 2016!!! Last week I had no option but to change my baby's nappy in a disabled loo and I came out of the disabled loo and there was 2 people waiting for the toilet, 1 was a wheelchair user and the other was on crutches. And the best about it was that this was in a hospital. I have spoken to the management at the hospital about this and the lady I spoke to told me that she had no idea that this disabled toilet was the only designated baby changing area on the ground floor. On further inspection there is two more disabled loos, both on separate floors and yep both also double up as baby changing facilities.

This is the stuff that gets my back up, not parent and child parking spaces.