To take park over the lines?

[dollarstodonuts]

We went to Tescos today to pick up a few things and all the child/parent parking was taken as it almost always is. If I park within the lines I literally can't get my car door open wide enough to get the infant car seat out. We have a seven seater SUV because we have four kids. Looking back I would have bought something with sliding doors but I can't just swap it now. So I parked as far away from the door as I could where there were several empty spaces. When I came back a man had parked his car so close to mine I could have only fit my body between the cars. He began shouting abuse about how entitled and ignorant I was. I explained over his shouting that I needed to be able to open the door to get the car seat in. 5 year old DS is now crying because the man is now shouting even louder. I ended up crawling through the boot and over the seats with DS and the infant carrier just to get away. What do people do if you have an infant seat? I'm not a Brit and part of the abuse yelled was to go back where I came from which was particularly nice for DS.

Wow so much vitriol against the OP. Regardless of her reason for parking over the lines, sometimes it happens. The ignorant twat of a man must have known he was blocking her doors when he parked after her. He could almost certainly have parked somewhere else and it sounds suspiciously like he was being deliberately obstructive.

Whatever, nothing gives him the right to shout abuse, especially at a woman with kids in tow and the "go back where you came from" line is the uttering of a scum-sucking bottom feeder.

The OP does not say she parked badly. Am I going mad or reading the wrong thing? She says she parked in a far part of the car park where there were lots of spaces.
I always do this, park away from the crowd in an empty row. It's amazing how someone always comes to park next to me. It's like they're lonely or something. :-D

Park in an empty bit of the car park.

HAHAHAHA..The twats seem to seek you out. We are the orange car and parked as far over as we could next to bushes

That was a 50 space and empty car park

Oldraver. I don't see the issue. They are still in the lines

University surely you wouldn't leave an infant seat with a baby in it on the tarmac of a busy car park while you reversed?

dollars no matter how selfish your parking it does not justify the man shouting racist or xenophobic abuse at you. Sorry to hear that happened.

I used to drive a Renault Megane estate (not a particularly big car) when child minding and had 3 children under 2 in a row in the back, and more than once I returned to the car with all 3 toddlers to find that despite parking in the furthest away from the building part of the car park with spaces on both sides, people had parked as close to my car as possible, making getting the kids in almost impossible (and myself too as towards the end of my childminding career I was heavily pregnant). It is infuriating and often unnecessary and thoughtless - I did sometimes wonder if people saw the car seats and did it out of spite...

However you don't get to park over two spaces - that's also selfish and thoughtless especially if the car park is filling up and you using two spaces will mean someone can't park at all.

Can you shop very early in the morning or at another unpopular less busy time if you live in a very densly populated area where the car parks fill to bursting? Try to online shop more? Park on the end of a row where possible.

I must say I hate taking kids anywhere busy and deliberately choose unsociable times, usually very early, to avoid crowds, and this avoids a lot of problems.

University are you having a laugh? If we all park on the line like that, no one will be able to get in or out of the car, except through the boot.

I have a perfectly normal sized car and I can't get the car seat out in a normal sized space.

If there aren't enough P&C spaces I use the baby seat on the trolley, use the sling, use the pram, or use another supermarket. It would never occur to me to park across two spaces.

He was a dick though, like the woman the other day who hit me on the arm for accidentally touching her precious door hand with my door, doing no damage, and then 'not even being bothered'. Some people are unhinged, I just hope they never start on someone more unhinged who may react badly.

The car is in the lines.

If the op can't park can't put the child in a Trolley and can't take the child out of the seat in the car without opening her door wide as - then she has to either

Learn to park properly

Or put the car seat down somewhere reverse back and put the car seat in once she's back a bit and can open doors. If she puts the car seat and baby down at the front of her car I can't see that it's that big a deal. Or put the car seat and baby in the boot. Reverse back 2 feet. Open door put baby in.

But really. She needs to park properly.

You need to park properly. Bad parking really annoys me.

Hahaha thereisiron. That's illegal.

HunterHearstHelmsley

It's funny how all these people with mobility problems etc that need to park like this all drive fancy cars. Curious.

I'll ignore the rather nasty undertones of your comment, and just point out that wheelchairs of varying characteristics and capabilities can take up a lot of room, and so need a bigger car. And that's before you add in the height that a person may need to safely transfer, and any additional space needed for buggies, prams, etc.

Cars are getting bigger, car parks need to make their spaces bigger. There is not enough room between cars to open doors but there should be!
This winter there was heavy snow in my local shopping centre and no-one could see any lines. Everyone parked at a sensible distance from each other (taking about 30cm, a foot more each side than the marked spaces)
It was so lovely, much less stressful. I could open the door, get the kids in and the pushchair between the cars, it was bliss.

Where the op parked can't have been that emoty as she said there was a car next to her: there was a car on my other side.

Now the REAL issue here is not you at all. It's the selfish lazy people who park in the child spaces without a child! This used to bug the hell out of me, sounds awful but people who I see do this I really feel to punch in the face. I would take pleasure in doing so!!!

If I had a baby (mine are older) I would use two spaces! If someone arsehole had a problem with it then if send them in tesco and tell them to take it up with them.

Tesco need to put measures in for lazy selfish arses who use the child parking

YANBU

It's funny how all these people with mobility problems etc that need to park like this all drive fancy cars. Curious

Well it's because they are entitled to a mobility car which is mostly less than 3 years old. It's their entitlement.

And a few has said they would leave the baby on the ground and reverse the car.... Are you freaking mad??? No god damn way

Well. You have a choice. Either.

Get a car you can park and park considerately

Or do something else.

The op doesn't like any of the other options. So ...

I would put the baby in the boot and reverse back 2 or 3 feet myself.

Or rather. I wouldn't. Because I can park.

Lurking I'll assume you're having a hard of thinking day today as you totally missed the point and made up a different one.

I'm pretty sure the Lamborghini I parked next to at the gym did not do so in order to get a wheelchair out. The vast majority of people who do it do so because they don't want their car dented. It's selfish and inconsiderate and should be treated thusly.

Mother I said fancy not new.

What an unsympathetic bunch of replies! You maybe could have parked better but his response was horrid. and ignore.

A bit of crap parking bothers some of you that much? Really?

People who park right next to another car, when there are absolutely loads of empty rows and spaces and no need to park alongside another car, are wankers.

Where possible, I park right out of the way, at the back of the car park with an empty space either side of me. It makes getting kids and car seats in and out so much easier and being able to open the door fully safe in the knowledge a clumsy kid won't bash another car is nice.

There is often that one twat who decides the space next to my car miles out of the way, is THE space they want. Twats.

OP you did nothing wrong, as long as your car is between the lines then he has no argument.

HunterHearstHelmsley

Lurking I'll assume you're having a hard of thinking day today as you totally missed the point and made up a different one.

Fair point, and I apologise . Good point.