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... to expect people who use parent & baby car parking spaces to have children with them?

465 replies

fryalot · 05/02/2007 15:11

Or am I the only who gets fed up of waiting for a space because they are all filled with lazy b***ds who can't be bothered to walk an extra yard?

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LittleBoSheep · 06/02/2007 19:10

I have to confess to occasionally throwing a virtual pebble into a conversation to watch the ripples spread but I really WOULDN'T do it about disability...just not funny even to my warped humour.

LittleBoSheep · 06/02/2007 19:13

Hey VV....no trolly trapping...thats my trademark (honestly I only did it once - I'd hate to damage someones car)

OH and while we are in the supermarket car park...why do people take their trolley UP to the trolley park and then put it NEXT to it rather than IN so that it rolls off and hits the nearest car?

VeniVidiVickiQV · 06/02/2007 19:14

2shoes - vaguely remember a thread you started a while back that mutated somewhat.....

Tortington · 06/02/2007 19:46

boblinga and yellowrose - please re-read my post get off your high horse and tell me where i mentioned anything ANYTHING DEROGATORY about disabled parking.

IntergalacticWalrus · 06/02/2007 19:48

Farking hell, I go off and do stuff for 24 hours, and this thread is still here and still going round in circles.

[yawn]

Tortington · 06/02/2007 19:50

3andnomore wrote "custardo, doesn't it depend though how far away you live from a shop? "

custy actually wrote

" jesus ladies get over it - and park at the back where theres loads of spaces - and if there arnt your goint at the wrong time - then walk. "

ItsMeMellowma · 06/02/2007 19:56

[notes it is after 6.30pm so comes and parks alongside hunker]

LittleBoSheep · 06/02/2007 19:57

See thats my problem too custy sometimes I throw in a little pebble to watch the ripples and it creates a tidal wave. LOL

Although actually your post was actually more of a brick than a pebble!!

VioletBaudelaire · 06/02/2007 20:04

Out of all the thread topics on MN, this one seems to cause the most upset on a regular basis.
Parent and toddler parking spaces are a convenience, not a right.
If they're full, park in a quiet part of the car park, with plenty of space and near a trolley park.
If a disabled person could not park in a disabled parking bay, then I would have no problem with them parking in a P& T space. Their need is greater than than those of parents with babies or toddlers.
People who are not disabled, and who do not have a baby or toddler in the car should not park in the P&T spaces - but sometimes they do. Life is sometimes unfair, but if this is the biggest problem in someone's life, they are very lucky.

skibump · 06/02/2007 20:14

Any popcorn left? Squonk, which was the 'career mum' thread?

winestein · 06/02/2007 20:16

I took someone's, who had parked in a P&T space with no children (and strode confidently in to the shop I might add), wing mirror off with my trolley once (and no, he didn;t come back with a disabled relative or arms weighed down by children)

I had intended to knock it out of kilter slightly so he would have the inconvenience of getting out and readjusting it (old non-electric fiesta) but the sodding thing came right off. I am not normally prone to random acts of violence against automobiles, but in my defence I had PMT with a new baby, topped up with PND, so it was either that or lay him out in the car park, the idle bastard...

I do think people have a right to be irked by ignorance, as that is what parking in P&T spaces without a need to be close to the store is, and I think that it is part of peoples anger at society for not caring about anyone else - for their selfish attitudes. It irks me, when I have parked at the back of the store, to eventually make it as far as the P&T's and see some idle feck sidle straight into it. It is, at the end of the day, ignorant and disrespectful of community and it is probably* the same people who honk at people getting disabled children into vehicles.

PMSL at Custy's summary post, but you have topped it off beautifully VVV.

Nothing else to see here.. moooove along.

*look at me judging

winestein · 06/02/2007 20:17

Not VVV... I meant VB

fryalot · 06/02/2007 20:20

skibump: It wasn't me who offended everyone on the career mum thread. The first I heard of it was here - sorry. (if you find out where it was, put a link on....)

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3andnomore · 06/02/2007 20:58

Squonk, look, I wasn't having a go, and you didn't upset me, I don't agree with that bit and said that in my original reply, however, I still ended up taking a lot of stick, because people thought when I meant obviously disabled, I meant I had to see it, which I didn't, hohum...problem with online things is you cna't see the other person.
OH, usually I get into heated debates about Natural via C-section, Breastfeeding threads , Immunisations...and I would think a lot of mn'ers have a wonderful gift to offend...like I said a tone is hard to be detected in the virtual world
Bumblebee, I agree!
Little Bo sheep, because it would take common sense to actually put the trolley INTO the trolleypark. (Oh got I do really sounds seriously anally retented, eh....but I am a stickler to rules...it's the german genes, I am sure of it)
Custardo, my comment was about this:
custardo on Tue 06-Feb-07 15:29:12
yes you are being unreasonable. why dont you walk with your babies? eh eh? what makes you so special?
Not the one mentioned by you... (not that I am being nitpicking now, me...nonono...not me....)
Winestine, you said that so much more eloquently then me...which, fair enough, is not difficult of course.
custardo on Tue 06-Feb-07 15:29:12
yes you are being unreasonable. why dont you walk with your babies? eh eh? what makes you so special?

3andnomore · 06/02/2007 21:00

ooops, I wish there was a edit button, lol....

Squonk, look, I wasn't having a go, and you didn't upset me, I don't agree with that bit and said that in my original reply, however, I still ended up taking a lot of stick, because people thought when I meant obviously disabled, I meant I had to see it, which I didn't, hohum...problem with online things is you cna't see the other person.
OH, usually I get into heated debates about Natural via C-section, Breastfeeding threads , Immunisations...and I would think a lot of mn'ers have a wonderful gift to offend (me including)...like I said a tone is hard to be detected in the virtual world
Bumblebee, I agree!
Little Bo sheep, because it would take common sense to actually put the trolley INTO the trolleypark. (Oh got I do really sounds seriously anally retented, eh....but I am a stickler to rules...it's the german genes, I am sure of it)
Custardo, my comment was about this:
custardo on Tue 06-Feb-07 15:29:12
yes you are being unreasonable. why dont you walk with your babies? eh eh? what makes you so special?
Not the one mentioned by you... (not that I am being nitpicking now, me...nonono...not me....)
Winestine, you said that so much more eloquently then me...which, fair enough, is not difficult of course.

fryalot · 06/02/2007 21:02

3and... I know you weren't having a go, I was just blanket apologising to everybody - again. Can we all hold hands and have a group hug???

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2shoes · 06/02/2007 21:06

VeniVidiVickiQV never

3andnomore · 06/02/2007 21:07

Group-hug is fine by me.

misdee · 06/02/2007 21:09

boobies

winestein · 06/02/2007 21:11

norks back at yer

eidsvold · 06/02/2007 21:35

i would love to be able to do internet shopping but we don't have that here where I live in Aus - would be brilliant if we did.

3andnomore · 07/02/2007 14:36

Well Eidsvold can't have it all ...I mean you already hog the good weather over there

LittleBoSheep · 07/02/2007 15:19

The other thread was about being too tired to go to work - I was expecting the poster to get a real kicking and made a joking comment to this effect.

here

Sometimes you just think - ohh I seem to be upsetting people, maybe I better go and watch TV instead LOL

2shoes · 07/02/2007 15:35

oh I so know that feeling LittleBoSheep

ItsMeMellowma · 07/02/2007 15:38

I thought that was an okayish thread tbh!

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