another mother and baby space issue

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Can't decide on this one...
yesterday supermarket m&b spaces full - had to wait. As I walked in and on the way out too, saw two spaces being used by someone a bit older than me with a elderly, obviously quite frail lady. No disabled badge in the car but they had the spaces right near the door. Felt peeved because it was raining and the space I'd waited for was right at the end and ds got wet in the sprint to the door, but then wasn't sure if I was right to be peed off.

But was the frail elderly the parent of the other older lady and thus qualified? My kids love getting wet as they get hot chocolate.

Think i just get a bit sensitive, had a bad car park experience when DS was just a few weeks old and ended up in tears and drove home without doing the shopping. I'm a bit of a stickler for rules and I never parked in m&b spaces before DS, and now I can use them I hardly ever get to because some business man in his big Audi nicks the last one. I wouldn't normally be down on frail old ladies, I'll be one someday!

The people who annoy me the most by parking in P&C spaces when they have no children is mothers who clearly have young children (car seats in car) but don't have the children with them. They really should know better.

Anyone elses either needs the space like the frail lady or is simply ignorant.

Centrale in Croydon has the right idea by scattering the P&C spaces all over the carpark. Makes them less attractive than when they're all by the doors.

i'd like to say thanks to the two women 4x4 drivers who nearly ran me over in tesco this morning, life really was nearly too short for me.

Were you stood in a P&T space?

am impressed a p&t thread with no fatalities. impressive - is this a mumsnet first?

counting chickens hatching

confession - saw a p&c space free & thought great - almost pulled into it .....as I suddenly remembered I didn't have my kids with me!!!! Hope no mumsnetters saw me

I had a LOVELY Tesco's experience this morning.

ALL the drivers stopped at the diddy zebra crossings for me and my trolley! And we nodded and smiled and said "you go first" "no - YOU go first" and all that lovely politeness we Brits are so famous for.

Only read OP.
People wait for M&B spaces rather than park in the other spaces and walk?

next time park elsewhere in 2 spaces so you can open your door and get your baby out comfortably.

oh dear lord.

it was rainign today?

Poor old lady! I would happily give up my p&t space for her!

The reason these spaces exist is because you do need to open your door extra wide to get toddler/baby out of car seat otherwise you end up crawling across the back seat doing damaging things to your back trying to lift and twist baby out.

Also, it's safer with tots to park near the supermarket than to negotiate across lanes of parked cars that have a tendency to reverse without looking. The majority of collisons happen in supermarket car parks. So there is a safety issue too.

However it's not something I feel very strongly about.