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AIBU?

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

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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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Twinklemegan · 22/04/2007 16:53

Blooming heck - not again! My take on it is if they made all parking spaces a proper size with no ridiculous cambers on the car park, put brakes on all the trolleys, and had designated zones for pedestrians, then P&T spaces wouldn't be needed.

SparklyGothKat · 22/04/2007 16:53

Saggarmakersbottomknocker · 22/04/2007 16:57

Same here Sparkly.

2shoes · 22/04/2007 17:08

why can't there be a seperate topic for p & t bays

ViscountessPetitLapin · 22/04/2007 17:09

Well, I LOVE P&T spaces, if I park in any others I bash the car next to me when I open the Land Rover's door...

ViscountessPetitLapin · 22/04/2007 17:10

Twinklemegan · 22/04/2007 17:11

Hence my plea for proper sized spaces oh noble one.

ViscountessPetitLapin · 22/04/2007 17:18

We actually do have a Land Rover, but I am v careful when opening doors!

What winds me up is when you see a car containing a car seat in a P&T space; and then the mother comes out, sans child, and drives off! Bloody cheeky.

fryalot · 22/04/2007 17:26

has this thing kicked off yet?

fryalot · 22/04/2007 17:27

bugger, someone got there before me

Kaleidoscope · 22/04/2007 17:28

happybiggirl · 22/04/2007 17:29

Message withdrawn

dueat44 · 22/04/2007 20:10

The other week, a bloke in a new Audi (no kids) parked across TWO parent and child spaces at our local Waitrose. He was obviously afraid of getting it scratched.

WHY didn't I fall on it with a razor blade????

sarahlou1uk · 22/04/2007 20:23

My Tesco is the same. If I'm in a M&B space and I see someone pull up and park who has no kids, as they are walking away from the car I tend to shout "Excuse me, you've forgotten something......YOUR KIDS!!!!
When I go to the shops without the kids, I would never dream of parking in one of these spaces. Some people, however, would like to drive around inside the store in their cars.

I think it's about to kick off now so I've said my piece and will now slide off quietly as I don't possess a hard hat!

ViscountessPetitLapin · 22/04/2007 20:57

Oh what a business idea - drive thru supermarket! GENIUS!

pastalady · 22/04/2007 20:58

No, no, no, no, no! I see it all the time and it REALLY annoys me! Yesterday we had the pleasure of seeing some big, fat middle-aged man waltz out of his big, empty car parked bang outside the front door as we headed off for the distant end of the car park. Some people may think it's petty to get annoyed at such a thing, but it's genuine pain to try and manouvere a two-stone toddler out the back of a car when you can't even open the door fully and walking miles to entrance with him on your hip when you are pregnant with an achy back isn't nice either.

Maybe all those annoyed by this can start a vigilanty group. Print up some posters to do with being lazy, inconsiderate/breaking rules etc and slap 'em on the offending windscreens I say! Or, better still, supermarkets should have a policy for making people who have unfairly taken childrens spaces come and move their cars, anouncing the number-plate on the tannoy etc. That would soon stop them !

pinkspottywellies · 22/04/2007 21:09

I saw a lady getting out her car at the same time as me in a M&B space so I said "excuse me I think these spaces are for people with children" and she said "it don't say you have to have 'em with you, does it".

It does actually but I was lost for words and didn't say anything else! Every time I go there I see at least 2 cars without children in these spaces and there is a parking attendant who ignores it

chocolattegirl · 22/04/2007 21:20

I had a permit badge for the parent-spaces spaces at my local Tescos.... I think I got to use it once. I used to have to fold myself almost in half to get my dd in her carseat in the back of my car. I got used to it but it doesn't mean to that that's it's right.

DebitheScot · 22/04/2007 21:28

That pisses me off soooooo much. Some days I wonder why I bother even trying to park in them as I end up so pissed off that I have a rampage through Tesco in a bad mood.

I tried to politly(ish) have it out with someone once and just got a heap of abuse from the 4 young (orange, pikey) girls who were in the car.

oopsydaisy · 22/04/2007 22:01

last summer i was sooo annoyed when woman in 4 by 4 with no kids parked in last m&b space in our tescos. i pulled up behind her, blocking her into the space and asked her politely if she knew it was a parent and child space. her response was that she had a dog in the back and this was the only space in the car park that was in the shade! (wft she was doing bringing her dog to tescos i'll never know)
anyway i left my car blocking her in, took my 2 kids into tescos and told the customer services, who made an announcement over the tannoy informing 'the driver of vehicle registration XXX XXXX that they were parent and child spaces, not woman and dog spaces and could she come and move her car'!!
she came and moved it and i had the space!!
tee hee
tbh tescos seems worse than everywhere else - i do my shopping at sainsburys now and hardly ever struggle for a mums and tots space!

whomovedmychocolate · 22/04/2007 22:08

My pet peeve is people who take their partners and children (who are most often over five) to the supermarket, take the last M&B space and then leave kids/partner in car while they shop.

Hellloooo couldn't you have parked anywhere if you were going to do that?

Oh and at our Sainsburys the M&B and disabled are next to each other and all the old biddies park in the M&B and the mums are too bloody nice to return the compliment - so we have to brave the traffic in the main car park.

Rachmumoftwo · 22/04/2007 22:19

It may help if Tesco etc said the places were for parents with children actually with them, rather than for cars displaying a sticker. I have seen staff in uniform using the spaces in my local store with no children with them! Wish I had complained, but rather exhausted from trailing 2 dds round Tesco for an hour and a half- stress!

2shoes · 22/04/2007 22:22

whomovedmychocolate omg how tragic an old biddie (most likely a disabled one) parked in a p&t space.
what ever next.......................

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Emprexia · 22/04/2007 23:16

Rachmumoftwo - i will admit to having done that.. parked in a M&B space while working at my Tesco, however, in my defence, i was 8mo pregnant at the time and suffering SPD. Lol.

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Emprexia · 22/04/2007 23:17

Just adding - I think disabled people are perfectly entitled to park in M&B spaces.. if there are no disabled spaces left, what else are they supposed to do?

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