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 !

Ronald Needing a disabled space is different to needing a P+C space yes. But when with my niece how am I supposed to get her in the car seat when on my own if I can't open the door enough for it to hold itself open? I don't have 3 hands!

I park in them Often. They aren't enforceable by law they're a courtesy.
If it's busy I don't (just in case a disabled person needs it because all the disabled spaces are full) , but at quieter times when there are a few avsilable too right I'll use them. If anyone gives me a stare I give them a stare right back.

I have an icandy. I love it. But I don't bloody take it to Aldi with me. That's what the trolley is for. If DS is being particularly whingy then that's what the sling is for. I also have a £23 Aldi buggy (just to get some reverse snobbery in there ) which is great for holidays and when we are short of boot space. And I drive an Audi. The world hates me. Still no clue what the need for p&c spaces is....

fuckin I hope one day you're late for something because you can't get a parking space because someone else has taken two spaces. It's not fair.

If he can afford an expensive car he can afford to repair the odd scratch.

Parent and Child parking spaces are a nicety not a right
There often isn't an empty P&C space at my local supermarket, but there appears to be an unwritten rule round here or people just use their common sense that the P&C spaces are more useful to those with young babies in rear-facing car seats that need to be lifted in and out than they are for people with older babies/children whose car seat stays in the car!
When DD was tiny, and I used to take her into the supermarket in her car seat, I used P&C spaces if there was one available, now she's 13mo and in a forward facing car seat, I don't need to open the door as wide to get her out - so there's no need to use the space.
The only thing I do get my knickers in a twist about, is when I see a family, for example, mum, dad and three kids who park in a P&C space, then one parent gets out and goes into the shop, and the other parent sits in the car with the kids! Wtf is all that about?!

Just leave the fucking car seat in the car. I know some people are shit at manoeuvring their trolleys but I'm not sure that full side impact protection and 5 point harness is necessary for the relatively low speed impacts you might expect.

Leave the car seat in the car!

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!

Acasualobserver
That reads like a Viz 'Top Tip'!

Theonlywayis if DD was sleeping in the car seat, I.e. Everytime we went anywhere in the car, I used to leave her in the car seat and have her sleeping while in the supermarket rather than wake her by taking her out and then have to settle her again or have her screaming the supermarket down IMO, that's what P&C spaces are for - extra door space. That's why I don't park in them anymore, because I don't need to open the door any wider.

Fuckincunt I hope you paid twice, then? That is unbelievably selfish behaviour. And in all likelihood makes people more likely to scratch your car, not less.

Nice username, btw!

Still twatty.

I've been here 10 years and never seen this topic brought up so I am very grateful to the OP for airing this.

I wish beyond all hope that all P+C places were put in the back of the carpark... why in the name of all that is holy they don't do this, I do not know. There would be no aggro then.

Yes, I'm one of those annoying posters with older DCs. There were no P+C places and honestly it was not a problem. I do remember they just started bringing them in, in my local shopping centre, trouble is, it took me a very long time to work out what they were by which time my DCs were not coming on shopping trips with me, think I used one once! I just don't understand how everyone now has this huge problem of getting their kids in and out of cars. As for not wanting to walk across a carpark with a 4 yr old, ridiculous! Depending on how old my DCs were, that dictated where I parked when I shopped, why doesn't everyone just park further away?

Disclaimer:-
No, I've never parked in P+C places when I shouldn't have done.
All that I have written above does not apply to BB places

Pagwatch you obviously haven't seen the Ipad pushchairs

Someone driving a brand new BMW did what fuckincunt did when I was in Cambridge a little while ago. It was a Saturday and really busy, and we drove laps around the car park for ages looking for an empty space. One became available....right next to Mr-Two-Space-BMW. When we came back to our car after shopping, there was a slushy, half-melted McFlurry smashed onto the windscreen of the BMW Someone obviously didn't appreciate the cuntish 2-space behaviour!
Disclaimer It wasn't me! But I kind of wish I had done it

Snowgirl

You are just messing with me now.

Op has a 4 year old and a baby.

This is so funny!
I can't understand how people need so much space either?!?
I used to take my two y/o and baby on the bus in the double buggy.
It was a bit of a faff, but it is what it is...
I just can't see the angst of having to walk across a car park....

I had a mamas and papas for now 23 year old ds. Not once did it serenade him with California dreaming.

I have chronic fatigue syndrome (ME). I don't have a disabled badge. I'm frightened of asking for one. I don't need one all the time and that's the problem - I do for maybe 3 months of the year. When I'm really ill I avoid the shops. In the past 5 years, I've parked in a P&C spaces maybe twice. That was when I had to go out and get something essential from the shops - and only for 10 minutes maybe as it's just for something I really need eg cocodamol for chronic pain (ifbromyalgia). The people, who park in those spaces just because are really inconsiderate but it's not illegal.

OP, I feel your pain.

All the nasty comments on this thread about people like OP getting annoyed by others being lazy and inconsiderate, are unnecessary. And for those who are openly lazy and inconsiderate, you shouldn't be allowed in the car park at all. I wish supermarkets would enforce the rules.

As for entitled, yes, all carers with small children are entitled to park in the larger designated spaces for this purpose.

Those who don't like that can fuck off.

Nobody has mentioned that a small child is at real risk of being hit by a car reversing out of a space if they wriggle out of the carers grasp, and run. So the spaces are nearer to the store to reduce the risk of having to traverse the whole car park.