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To get SO SO SO angry about P&T spaces....

254 replies

Wilkie · 19/08/2007 17:53

I know, I know it has been done to death but honestly, some peopl are just fucking pig-ignorant.

Pulled up at Asda at the same time as a roughish middle aged couple, two P&T spaces available, I pulled into one, they pulled into another. Another car drove past with a young couple in and a tiny baby, looking for a space but obv couldn't park there as we had just taken last spaces.

Middle aged couple got out, stared at me as though to say 'so?' so I said 'I take it you have invisible children then??'

He said 'yeah actually' and sauntered off.

TWAT.

OP posts:
Sexonlegs · 21/08/2007 13:18

I am not bothered about how far the p&c spaces are from the shop. It is the space to be able top open the car door properly that I welcome. Have said this before, but I couldn't get the car seat back in after shopping with my 2 dd's - 1 4 yrs and 1 4 months. I had to put the car seat in the trolley shelter with my older dd looking after it, whilst I pulled my car out of the space. Ridiculously dangerous. I shop online each week for groceries, but still need other bits now and then.

I know it isn't the end of the world, but it makes me v cross too.

Flum · 21/08/2007 13:18

I really do. sorry.

Rhubarb · 21/08/2007 13:19

You could put a note in the car, as I have suggested. Or park near the recycling where there is loads of space and you are not likely to be parked next to.

Flum · 21/08/2007 13:20

sorry really apppalling sense of humour, but when she told the story it was hilarious. I think she fleshed it out a lot theough to get the whole office lauging.

LadyMacbeth · 21/08/2007 13:23

It's the laziness and thoughtless selfishness that makes me cross.

If P&T spaces could be located at the back of car parks, none of this would be a problem. I would be more than happy to park at the back of a car park if it meant I could be guaranteed a space.

Have to say though that my local Tesco (Wells) nearly always has lots of spaces free - I think that says a lot about the lovely people who live there!

whiskeyandbeer · 21/08/2007 13:27

"I would be more than happy to park at the back of a car park if it meant I could be guaranteed a space."

as would 99% of people if they were guarenteed a space at their supermarket. but why should you be guarenteed a space over anyone else?

niceglasses · 21/08/2007 13:31

What about if Pete Doherty took your P&T space?

Would you spontaneously combust?

whiskeyandbeer · 21/08/2007 13:31

not if he wrote a song about it.

Rhubarb · 21/08/2007 13:32

I would do a nice big dump on his car and spread it over his windscreen.

Flum · 21/08/2007 13:32

here is an idea.

the supermarket could allocate certain spaces for parents and kids and parents with kids could sign up to use them. They could pay a small fee say £5 per week for the priveliddgje (sp????).

In order to fund this, parents coudl use some of the family allowance which the government kindly gives them just for being good enough to be tryign to add to the future pension pot jsut by having kids.

Everyone is a winner.

There you go, would you be willing to pay for this luxury.

niceglasses · 21/08/2007 13:33

'I is at the supermarket the other day
Some big M*F** hit me wiv the evils man

She said I took her space

I said space is a concept man.........."

[Knows now why not a rock star]

Flum · 21/08/2007 13:37

Yeah man live life on the edge, otherwise you is takin up too much space. Park on 2 wheels not 4.

TAKE THE BUS GAWWD DARN YA

whiskeyandbeer · 21/08/2007 13:37

would i as a childless male be allowed to also pay for this priveledge? would the govt. subsidise me should i wish to pay for this priviledge?
if i arrived at the shopping centre and no spaces where available for my badge would i be refunded or compensated in any way?

aloha · 21/08/2007 13:38

You are a childless male?

whiskeyandbeer · 21/08/2007 13:40

i may well be. that is the beauty of t'internet.
i'm just saying would it be fair for supermarkets to sell parking spaces to only those with children? and as it has been described as a priveledge would it then be fair for the government to pay for this priveledge when it is not available to all sections of society?

aloha · 21/08/2007 13:43

Well, are you? It's hardly a hugely personal question.

whiskeyandbeer · 21/08/2007 13:43

yep

Wisteria · 21/08/2007 13:46

I never understood the need for P&T spaces anyway. I was perfectly capable of supervising 2 small children over a busy car park when mine were little. It's not like you're disabled and our supermarket has more P&T than disabled bays which does piss me off, especially when parents who can't find spaces in P&T think they have a right to a disabled spot in lieu .

niceglasses · 21/08/2007 13:46

Your Pete aren't you?

aloha · 21/08/2007 13:48

Ah, right, that explains a LOT.
How odd!

whiskeyandbeer · 21/08/2007 13:54

" alot"?
that sounds ominous

UnquietDad · 21/08/2007 14:00

P&T spaces are useful. Just because they are not a legal right, that doesn't make childfree people taking them an OK thing to do. It may not be illegal, but it is rude.

I'm a bit perplexed as to why a childless male would spend time posting on a parenting forum.

LadyMacbeth · 21/08/2007 14:05

whiskeyandbeer - sorry for late reply - what I mean is that the chances of getting a P&T space would be greater because people who don;t need them would have less incentive to park in them if they are more than five steps away from the shop.

Wisteria · 21/08/2007 14:12

The only point of P&T spaces I thought (although I don't agree) is that it is too hard for Mums and Dads to struggle with children across the car park so they need to be close to the door.
I agree that they shouldn't be used by people without young children but don't agree with the whole thing in principle, having children doesn't (in my opinion) make you at a disadvantage from the rest of society!

OrmIrian · 21/08/2007 14:25

Agreed wisteria. I don't feel in the slightest disadvantaged.