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Parking Space

75 replies

JorlyWood · 10/07/2019 17:32

So I asked my partner to drive me to Tesco to pick up something for dinner (I don't drive). We popped our little girl in the car seat without her trousers or shoes on as I was planning on just running in quickly. When we got there he pulled into a parent and child space and I reminded him I was going in myself and would prefer to park somewhere else. He thought that since we had our child in the car we could park there but I disagreed explaining the reason they are there is for extra space getting prams and whatnot out. He refused to park anywhere else and said it's here or home. I told him I wasn't going in without her and as she didn't have her trousers or shoes I couldn't take her in so we would have to go home. The bastard actually drove home instead of just parking in any of the other free spaces.
So, was I being unreasonable? Should I have just broken the law and gone in? We have food but not anything my DD will eat and as she has been poorly I wanted to get her something nice.

OP posts:
winefortea · 10/07/2019 17:33

Sounds like you were both being pig-headed!

AllFourOfThem · 10/07/2019 17:33

It’s not illegal to park in a parent and child space regardless of whether you have a child or not. Is your partner normally such a twat?

Sirzy · 10/07/2019 17:34

In the time you spent bickering you could have been in and out with the shopping. What a mountain out of a molehill

SavoyCabbage · 10/07/2019 17:35

Broken the law!

I think you were being to micro-managing. It's up to the person who is driving where they park. And which route to take and which lane to go in at the roundabout.

IWantMyHatBack · 10/07/2019 17:35

God, who cares. If you were just going to run in you'd have only been there a few minutes anyway

BedraggledBlitz · 10/07/2019 17:37

He was being a twat.

I agree with your logic about parent child spaces. I would have just gone in though, and let him put up with the dirty looks from disapproving types like me.

sunshinesupermum · 10/07/2019 17:37

You're both as bad as each other. You could have just run in and grabbed what you needed without rowing!

bridgetreilly · 10/07/2019 17:42

I honestly don't know how some people manage to get through life, tbh.

RollOnSummerBreak · 10/07/2019 17:44

I'd prefer someone in a p&c Bay with a kid in the car than someone just sat in there waiting for someone without a kid.. Like last night at sainsburys. Blaring out his music. Smoking a joint

RaptorInaPorkPieHat · 10/07/2019 17:44

I don't think this is about a parking space.

12namechange · 10/07/2019 17:46

Both VERY immature 🤦🏻‍♀️ great lesson for DC

needanappp · 10/07/2019 17:46

It's not breaking the law even if you have no child at all. You said you were just running in. In the time it took for you to argue about something ridiculous you could have been in and out.

CloserIAm2Fine · 10/07/2019 17:47

You were both being ridiculously stubborn over something incredibly petty.

Yes he should’ve parked elsewhere but in the time you wasted arguing you could’ve been in and out of the shop. It’s not illegal for anyone to use a P&C space, even if they don’t have a child!

So now you’ve had a wasted trip, a row and still not got whatever you went to buy!

Onesailwait · 10/07/2019 17:50

The words mountain and molehill spring to mind. The time you took arguing about it you could have been in and out with what you needed.

checkeredredshorts · 10/07/2019 17:50

You were being ridiculous.

implantsandaDyson · 10/07/2019 17:50

Neither of you are coming out of this looking well or even sane if truth be told. There is no law re parent/child spaces. If you want the final say over a car parking space - you drive.

mollibu · 10/07/2019 17:52

Broken the law 🤣🤣🤣.

By the time you finished arguing you could've been in and out.

Orangeyougladitsme · 10/07/2019 17:53

You weren't wrong to want him to park elsewhere because none of us want to piss off other parents that actually need the space and as the person getting in and out the vehicle it's you that would have the judges eyes on you. However, I would probably have put up with it and tell myself he was a fucking bellend.

Which he proved by tantrumming and driving home. But it's fine. Make dinner with what you have and if there's not enough for him then oh well. His fault for the tantrum.

Shoxfordian · 10/07/2019 17:55

Yabu, it's not against the law
I'd probably have done the same as him tbh

Dippypippy1980 · 10/07/2019 17:55

I tend to be a pedant about rules and agree with you. However on mumsnet is seems acceptable to park in those spots even if gir children are teens😊

Owlish · 10/07/2019 17:56

🙄

TidyDancer · 10/07/2019 17:56

I can't believe you were both so bloody pigheaded about it. You were being ridiculous and he overreacted because of it.

Parking in P&C spaces without a child is not breaking the law. You both need to stop being so silly.

ChipsAndKetchup · 10/07/2019 18:00

Does your mum know you're on her phone again?

LorelaiRoryEmily · 10/07/2019 18:01

Pair of idiots.

LannieDuck · 10/07/2019 18:02

Why didn't he run in to get it instead of driving home?

What are you going to have for dinner tonight instead?