To think elderly couple should not have parked in parent and child space?

[Pelly8]

Local supermarket has loads of disabled bays (which are 90% empty whenever i’ve been) but only 5 parent and child bays. Elderly couple (probs in 70s) parked their car in a parent and child bay just as I was packing away my shopping.

I almost pointed out that there was plenty of other places for them to park (including plenty of other non disabled bays close to the entrance) but bit my tongue.

AIBU to think they should have parked elsewhere?

My PIL had a blue badge before his hip replacement as walking was so difficult and painful.
After his hip replacement - at 91 years old - his GP refused to renew his BB as he didn't need it anymore.
Many old people struggle and get no concessions made for them.

Maybe the OP should concentrate on getting her little octopus to be more biddable.

They take up two spaces. Happens all the time. Not blatantly but they go over the line so unless you have a tiny car you can't get in the space.

If they do this selfish, entitled thing I make sure that I park my wreck as close to their driver door as I can, hopefully they may learn not to be such an oik.

Supermarkets could solve this problem by situating P&C spaces at the back of the car park.

I need a wide space ideally near a trolley bay, not a space near the entrance.

This would make the bays undesirable to people who either can't or don't wish to walk far.

My personal opinion is that whether they were entitled or not it doesn't matter. At that moment in time they were not impacting you as you had a space so mind your own business. If you feel compelled to be a public-spirited do-gooder at least focus on something with a bit more social value and that doesn't involve harrassing pensioners.

Actually, this is such a non-issue and non-event I'm going to do my public spirited bit for the day and suggest you get a fucking life.

I broke my leg last year and used the Parent and child spaces. My husband used to park in them and get me a wheelchair as I was so unsteady on crutches.

P&C parking spaces are a marketing tool and nothing else and if someone comes along who feels they need extra room for whatever reason then I for one would be happy they used a space.

So of course YABU OP. You do not know the needs of a stranger so stay out of it. Glad you didn't say anything, it wouldn't have been the couple who should've been embarrassed if you had confronted them.

I think it’s absolutely fine that they parked there. They’re probably just not able to walk far but aren’t actually entitled to a blue badge.

I broke my leg recently and was in a wheelchair. You don’t get a blue badge for that so we considered parking in parent and child spots but I was worried about posts I’d read on here about people objecting to disabled people using P&C spaces....

Who on Earth would begrudge an elderly couple a parking space?

YABU.

You should've gone back into the supermarket to check if they had grips on offer.

Oops. Thought my first post didn't show up, hence my second

it’s quite tricky having to wrestle a little octopus in and out of the car in the normal bays!

That's your problem right there. Maybe leave your pets at home while you're shopping. It might be easier to manage your child then.

That said, I think you're being very petty and mean-spirited to begrudge them the space. Most supermarkets around my neck of the woods haven't enough BB spaces and my mother, who has a BB, has ended up just going home if she can't get one because she once saw a BB holder being berated by an officious parent when they parked in P&C and she's afraid similar would happen to her.

My local supermarket has just introduced spaces for older adults, which I think is brilliant. I think they are much more necessary than P&C spaces but it's all about profit.

You are being very selfish.

I parked in one recently with my mom who has emphysema and dementia.
She is too breathless to go far and I refuse to drop her and park further away because it would worry her.

If you had said anything to me I would had told you to fuck off.

I hope that your local supermarket will soon stock tins of compassion, some punnets of therebutforthegraceofgodgoi and some boil in the bag nice.

They seem to be selling plenty of packets of me-me-me.

An able bodied parent with one child can park in a quieter part of the car park beside an empty space or a pathway and walk to the door. That isn't an option for an older person who doesn't have a blue badge but needs to park near the door.

I wouldn't begrudge an older person who needs it the use of a parent and child space.

I dare say they benefitted from wide opening space for being less mobile. I'm shocked anyone would think twice about it.

I totally agree with pps. P&C places if designated only for that group shouldn't be situated near to the supermarket entrance.

I’m lost for words.

Parent and child spaces, if they have to exist - I don’t think they should- should be as far away from the shop doors as possible.

I didn’t realize there was such things as parent & child bays 🤔. Could be worse Op, you could be catching the bus with half a dozen kids in tow.

You need to take a long hard look at yourself OP. It takes a massively self absorbed person to begrudge an elderly person of the space.

They probably need the space more than most parents. Only an unreasonable arsehole who doesn't care about vulnerable people, would say something.

At our local Tesco’s the p and c spaces are closer to the store than the disabled spaces. Ds does have a blue badge but the positioning of the spaces means if I have to take him to a supermarket (which is avoided at all costs) I will park in p and c because it is the space at that time which best meets his needs

I can't get worked up about parent and child spaces. I hardly ever use them. Just park in an empty part of the car park.

This is so depressing!
You will be old one day @Pelly8

OP your opinion is horrid

That is all