to find people who use Parent & Child spaces are mainly lazy?

[pointydog]

Well?

I mean, ok, you might need a tiny bit more space getting small child into car seat etc.

But I think the main factor here is laziness.

Yes you are being unreasonable because not all P&C spaces are nearer the shop. And those that are further away are less likely to be clutterd up by those pesky disabled badge holders with their free cars anyway.

Personally, if there is a p & t space available, I will park in it because:

1. I can get both children out of the car without banging the car door into the car next to me
2. I can get the children back into the car in the same way (without having to negotiate the twunt who has parked next to me leaving me a millimetre in which to get ds into his car seat) 3)I know that dd2 is reasonably safe holding onto my leg at the side of the car while I get ds out of the car
3. When coming back to the car with my shopping, there is enough room at the side of the car for me to put the shopping trolley with child still in it whilst I get the other child in the car - so I don't have to worry about the trolley being in the bit of the car park where people drive
4. There is a walkway from the P & T spaces straight to the shop, so the littlies are a bit safer than walking through a car park (not that I would let go of their hands of course)

But if there isn't one there, it's no biggie.

I cannot let that go unchallenged, soupy. Where are P&C spaces NOT closer to the shops?

so there

o squonk, all those many reasons don't wash with me. Lazy swine.

i was gonna only have one child until I found out I could park closer to the supermarket doors

har!

Norty

lazy? moi?

pmsl.

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pmsl

yes i am lazy and proud

at the end of the day, the supermarkets put them there to make things easier for us lazy mums so we will shop there. It works.

Not lazy. I find it easier if I've got all 3 with me (6, 4, 2) because I don't have to negotiate the car park with them all.

For me opening doors isn't an issue anymore as we have sliding ones.

Tbh, I hardly use them now anyway - I tend to go shopping when the kids are at school/nursery.

Lol. Yep, I needed the space more when I was pregnant than I did carting three little ones around.

but I was happy to be lazy if they were provided.

They are a con. We should all be able to use them.

well, at the risk of turning this into a 4x4 rant, i came back to my (non P&T) space at a shopping centre this afternoon to find myself sandwiched in between two of the sodding things.

I had to park dd's buggy and ask a stranger to keep an eye on her while i crept into the car and backed out so that i could open the doors and get her into her car seat.

I blocked the lane while i was getting her buggy down and didn't much care, tbh as they don't offer P&T parking. why the FUCK would people be so SELFISH as to block people in like that? if you're struggling to get out of your monster truck, then MOVE. (house, preferably, so i never have to see your stupid arse vehicle again.)

er. so in answer to the OP you are being unreasonable...

Ooh Aitch, I know how that feels. I've had to climb into my car from the boot before now. Mind you, I drive Landrovers and usually get boxed in by little old ladies in teeny tiny cars that just can't park. .

pointydog you are deffo being unreasonable. More children get hit by cars in car parks than on public highways, so anything that makes it a bit safer to get them all in and out isn't lazy, it's sensible.

It's only lazy when someone parks in one and then hops out with their one and only 10yo child. Lazy arses. And I tell 'em.

YABU - at our local Asda the P&T spaces are a fair bit further away than the nearest normal spaces but they're to the side of the store so no cars come down there except the ones to use those spaces and there's a walkway to the shop. So it's definitely not for the lazy but it damn well keeps kids safe. Especially when everyone round here drives a 4x4 or a van, speeds, and can't be bothered to look what's in front of them.

Actually the only place you can get a child seat trolley is in the P&C parking in my supermarket.

So YES I am being lazy, not to want to haul a 24 pound baby in a car seat across the car park to get a trolley and then back again (because I'm responsible enough not to leave a trolley in the wrong spot).