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Original poster

To expect people without kids to not park in the M&B spaces at Tesco?

89 replies

Emprexia · 22/04/2007 15:42

What is wrong with people?

There is a HUGE carpark at my Tesco, but only 20 Parent & Child parking spaces.

The amount of people who don't have kids that use them at the busiest times just so they dont have to walk across the carpark gobsmacks me.

i dont mind if they have disabled badges, if there are no spare disabled spaces, then go for it. But just because you're driving a 4x4 that you can't park is no excuse to park in the Parent/Child spaces!!!

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ViscountessPetitLapin · 22/04/2007 15:43

Kaishay, I think you have picked the most popular AIBU topic!

fireflyfairy2 · 22/04/2007 15:44

M&B spaces are not compulsary. Disabled ones are.

I park at the end of the carpark, beside the recycling bins as no-one parks there.

Gives me more room to get my children in & out of the car

RustyBear · 22/04/2007 15:45

I parked in one a couple of weeks ago when 17 y-o DD wanted to go to the cash point.
It was Easter Sunday, Tesco's was closed, the only people there were learner drivers practising and I still felt guilty......

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Emprexia · 22/04/2007 15:48

I know they aren't compulsory, lol.

My tesco has a totally seperate area for the 15 disabled and 20 M&B parking spaces.. they're all together to the one side of the entrance, you've got no business being up that end of the carpark if you aren't a driver who's either disabled or got a baby on board.

But the amount of people who blatently park up and walk in the shop amazes me, they dont park in the disabled bays, they steal ours instead..

i'd love for them to have an infant for a day and see how easy it is to get them in and out of the car (not) in a normal space.

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snowwonder · 22/04/2007 15:48

get your boxing gloves ready you might need them > look in the archive at other threads on this!!!

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Emprexia · 22/04/2007 15:51

Lol, my flame-retardent suit is well used over this - i've been in arguements over parent child parking befre.. usually with americans over on Delphiforums who think these spaces shouldn't exist at all, but then most of those dont think we should use "baby on board" tags on our cars either.

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SoupDragon · 22/04/2007 15:52

Only 15 disabled spaces???

wheresthehamster · 22/04/2007 15:52

Everybody who gets upset about this (and I probably did - can't remember) should go to customer services and suggest they move these spaces to the perimeter of the car park or the furthest away that still has safe access to the walkways. After all it's the space that's needed not necessarily the nearness.

I think we should all lobby for OS spaces around the perimeter for everyone. Ever needed to stop at Tesco's towing a caravan?
Not easy!

fryalot · 22/04/2007 15:53
Original poster
Emprexia · 22/04/2007 15:54

Soup dragon, unfortunately, yes. Which is why i don't object to the disabled drivers using the parent/child spaces if they need to.

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wheresthehamster · 22/04/2007 15:54

Was referring to M&B spaces there, not disabled which should obviously be near the entrance.

fireflyfairy2 · 22/04/2007 15:55

I'm torn TBH over the baby on board ones.

In one way I think they are good, as if you are driving slowly people behind will be aware that you may have a crying baby in the car.

But OTOH I have heard of one accident where the car had a baby on board sign & the firemen spent ages looking for a baby they thought had been flung from the car. It turned out that the baby was at home (thankfully).

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Emprexia · 22/04/2007 15:57

Wheresthehamster - i sympathise completely, DH and I had to do that, and we've had to try and park a large campervan too.

I dont care if they're right by the entrance, walking doesn't bother me. I work there and have to park at the bottom when i go to work anyway.

I just don't understand peoples mentality is all.. maybe i'm just mad.. but i was bought up not to do it. My father has never parked in those space, nor has DH before we had DS.

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rabbleraiser · 22/04/2007 15:57

Not everyone who does this, in fairness, is probably even aware that it's an allocated M&B space. Before I had a child, that sort of thing was totally off my radar - however big the sign, if you aren't looking for it you aren't going to see it. Appreciate that probably only excuses about 1 in 10, however.

WigWamBam · 22/04/2007 15:58

A disabled spaces row and a parent and child spaces row at the same time and in the same topic.

Oh joy, oh rapture.

joash · 22/04/2007 16:00

Disabled spaces in private car parks are not compulsory!!!

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Emprexia · 22/04/2007 16:00

rabbleraiser - true, a lot of stores they aren't easy to spot.

But at my tesco its a whole deisgnated section of the carpark to OS spaces, its seperated from the rest by the one-way system, painted in white chevrons and signposted to death, lol.

These people really have to have intended to park in those spaces to be in that section of the carpark.

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Hopeitwontbebig · 22/04/2007 16:06

Grrrrrrrrr it drives me mad. I see it almost every time I go to Tesco. I have two children and a 3rd on the way. Even when I was heavily pregnant with the 1st I wouldn't have dreamt of parking in a M&B space. My DH has a paralysed arm but isn't eligable for a Disable badge , he therefore struggles if he is shopping, but he wouldn't dream of parking in these bays without the kids.

I'm one of those people though that gets all irate but doesn't actually do anything about it..... actually, I have a very vague memory of a lady taking the last M&B space which I was going to park in, I was so cross when she jumped out of her car and pranced into the shop with no children..... I shocked myself and asked her why she'd parked there. She snapped at me 'I'm collecting my children, they're inside Tesco' AS IFFFFFFFFFFFF!!

TheWoman · 22/04/2007 16:08

Ah, another P&T parking thread!

Hopeitwontbebig · 22/04/2007 16:13

Sorry, fairly new here....

misdee · 22/04/2007 16:14

[misde goes to make a coffee and settles down to watch]

Indith · 22/04/2007 16:18

Oh good I've just got ds settld for a feed I could do with a good thread to keep me entertained!

Saggarmakersbottomknocker · 22/04/2007 16:48

Just get rid of P&T spaces then that'll be the end of it.

Then again don't - P&T threads always liven up a Sunday afternoon!

SparklyGothKat · 22/04/2007 16:51

just get rid of P&T spaces and make them all disabled (that my take on it anyway)

NormaStanleyfletcher · 22/04/2007 16:52

Has this thing kicked off yet?