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 !

[70isaLimitNotaTarget]

Dear Me, this again....

I get narked at the "Park further away" advice. I have parked in a completely empty aisle, well away from Blue Badge and Parent and Child , then come back to find a car practically shagging my car. Fecking huge 4x4 jumbo monster truck, the front bumper was ON MY FECKING BACK WINDOW . I was torn between : waiting to see the driver/a note to exclaim what a prat they were/a note to say I hope the next person they do this to doesn't have paper and writes Y.P.L.A.C on their bonnet with their key/ sighing and leaving after getting in my car and driving it forward a bit.
I'd left room at the back, they took as a sign to poach it.
Should have chucked a bucket of water on the monster truck, it might've climbed off

And the ones who park 1" away, I've had my mirror folded in so someone can park - on a bit of pavement, not even a parking bay.

Luckily, I have been able to struggle across the passenger seat. But in future when I cannot, I'll just have to squeeze in and maybe scrape their car?

[snowgirl29]

How do you know they're not disabled though?

[70isaLimitNotaTarget]

I do a bit of people watching some days (if I'm waiting overlooking the big car park)
And I hear a lot from my (mainly older) patients who complain about "Young men who park in BB spaces then run into the shops"

^But" I say" They might be going/running to collect their grandfather who is in Tesco"

"Or" they protest" the children who are far too old and don't look disabled to me that have badges"

"They might" I counter "Have a non visible disabilty"

They are but not convinced.

T'other day, I saw a woman and 2 teens park in BB, get out and walk briskly into the shops. Either of these above scenarios might have applied.

Today, a woman, alone, in her huge people carrier, in the P&C, loading shopping. Child might have been in the supermarket buying sweets or going to the toilet with Dad/Other adult.

You see snapshots.
But yes there are pillocks.

[fanjoforthemammaries7850]

People don't tend to challenge people really parking here in Edinburgh.

Dd must be annoying a lot of closed.minded people when we park in blue badge space using her badge and she runs off

[fanjoforthemammaries7850]

I always want to tell people with hidden disabilities who get a lot of hassle re parking from others to move here.

[snowgirl29]

BB is under statute law though regardless of whether it is on private land or not.

It's not that they lack the means. It's that they know they often won't have a legal leg to stand on even if they do choose to issue a PCN for P&C spaces.

[snowgirl29]

70isalimitnotatarget that is exactly it. People see snapshots.

People saw my Dad parked up in one recently, on his own, how dare he? I was inside with my niece and my young daughter helping me with the shopping having just came out of hospital. I bet he looked like a wanker to some people too.

[WeDoNotSow]

I'd love someone to leave me a shitty note. I'd frame it. After bandying it about on social media first and laughing of course.
Leaving notes for people... 😂😂

[snowgirl29]

And no my Dad couldn't have done the shopping for me, after having arthritis, surviving a heart attack and having angina and COPD too. I wonder how many people would have looked at him and thought he was just lazy though?...

[70isaLimitNotaTarget]

Though I did have verbals with a woman who was parked in a BB space, with a BB on display , approaching the car with an impaired mobilty older relative.......................because she had parked across 2 BB bays so her car didn't get damaged.

"Are you going to pay for my car if it gets damaged" she asked.

"No, but you've stopped someone else from parking" I said. I thought selfish cow learn to park properly, everyone else manages (mainly)

[PortiaCastis]

Left notes just get thrown on the ground and then a staff member has to go and clear the litter.

[snowgirl29]

WeDoNotSow

It would be interesting to see someone attempt that that where I live, it's a rough area and anyone leaving notes would have ran the risk of being left chewing on it.

[WeDoNotSow]

This also reminds me of the time I had to run into H&M to get a top.
DH parked up and say in car with kids while I ran into the shop (in neither a BB or P&C space)
When I came back DS was sitting in passenger seat fiddling with the radio, so I opened the door and told him to get back in the back.
A woman had a massive go at me saying how dangerous It was and how irresponsible I was to leave him alone in the car.
Until DP leaned across and asked what was going on. How can you have a go at someone without even looking properly I don't know.

It just makes me wonder how many people moaning here are looking properly.

And to the silly bint in Galleons Reach car park, you could have at least looked embarrassed rather than just walking off

[snowgirl29]

I don't even drive hence the lifts but I thought there was an unspoken rule about not touching someone's car? Ever?
Which presumably you'd have to do to leave a note?

[Welshmaenad]

I had a row with an entitled twat parked next to me in a disabled space with no bb once. I started politely but he was such a bastard I lost my rag and threw a litre of orange juice over his white beemer.

That'll learn 'em.

[Rebecca2014]

When you confront a single peson for parking in the child parking space they lose their shit! I remember with my ex we were looking for a space, dd was a baby at the time. Found one and next to us a young couple got out the car, no child...ex yelled at them, the man turned around and started ranting and raving. Thought he was going throw a punch, all over being confronted about a parking spot.

Now dd older (4) I don't get so heat up about it now though loads of people park in those spaces who don't have kids. I done it a couple of times on my own too, oops.

[fanjoforthemammaries7850]

Thres no point in confronting them, as if they are the kind of twat who would park in them in first place without a badge (talking about disabled spaces) they won't have a conscience to appeal to and will also have big ego and feel righteously offended and have a go.

[Welshmaenad]

Actually once I confronted a single chap who took the last P&C space. I was so uncharacteristically polite. Like, "oh, I don't know if you noticed but that's a parent and baby space and you don't seem to have a baby, it's the last one and we were hoping to use it so would you mind awfully moving so we could, please?"

And he said "yeah, fair point, sorry" and moved.

Nothing this shocking or monumental has happened in my life since.

[fanjoforthemammaries7850]

Wow that seems to be a rare experience, mostly I have heard of people becoming aggressive

[Andrewofgg]

My DS used to argue that P & C spaces should be free for all between nine p.m. and six a.m. (we have a 24-hour Tesco) as children young enough to need them should not be out.

He was in his teens so I did not bother to disagree. There's no point pissing into the wind, is there?

[Andrewofgg]

You wouldn't have done if you heard as much of it as DW and I did!

Never mind. He's 31 and has long since rejoined the human species.

[MerchantofVenice]

Still struggling to understand why the OP attracted such a nasty torrent of sanctimonious abuse..?

She is exactly the type of customer the parking space in question was designed for. She was annoyed that someone who shouldn't have parked there prevented her from doing so. It annoyed her. Good grief - we get threads on here where people are beside themselves with rage that their partner wakes them up going to the loo - and loads of people sympathise.

Ok, the word 'despise' might be going too far, but it seemed a harmless bit of hyperbole to me.

But apparently, unless the thing you're annoyed about is permanently life-altering or some sort of life-and-death situation, mentioning it means you are due hours of hate-filled criticism from the holier-than-thous.

It's just rude to abuse thosw spaces, just as it's rude to push in a queue. That is all.

And please, can we stop with the 'oooh, there was no such thing as p&c spaces I my day when everyone was so much better in every way.' So? We'd cope without them now, just like we'd cope without the internet - doesn't mean it's not annoying when it's not used properly.

[Pagwatch]

Holier than thou is where MN lives.