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Waitrose Mum & Baby carpark - parking without child!

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NZMummy15 · 12/09/2019 15:07

So today I parked at Waitrose (in a normal car park as didn't have the kids) and noticed a middle aged woman had parked in the mum and baby carpark (with no kids).

I went up to her in Waitrose and said you've just parked in a m&b carpark but you don't have any children with you. To which she replied I have a baby it's just not with me and I'm in a hurry, anyway who are you the police? Long story short I said she shouldn't be there and also mentioned this to the customer service desk who didn't care.

When I was putting my groceries in to the car she came over to me and said I shouldn't judge without knowing the full story and she actually has medical problems. I said she should be parking in the disabled car park then if that's the case, but of course did feel a little bit bad about whether I handled it right and if she was telling the truth as she didn't mention any of that earlier?

What would you have done it that situation? It's making me feel really awful now, but on the flip side I know how awful it is when you can't get a car park and you have a small baby/child so it always gets my back up!

JoMumsnet · 12/09/2019 17:35

Thanks for the reports about this thread. We've deleted a number of posts that we felt broke our Talk Guidelines. Many of these deletions have been for disablist posts.

Please take a look at our This Is My Child Campaign especially the Myths about Special needs. We think that Myth 6 - You can always tell when someone has a disability would be a good starting point for some posters.

When posting on threads like this, we ask everyone to please consider the challenges that people with disabilities, or who have children with disabilities, face on a daily basis.

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