To think you shouldn’t leave notes on cars when you don’t know the full story!?

[Scottishmum1984]

This is awful! www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edinburgh-news/edinburgh-mum-shock-after-stranger-19127878

Nothing illegal about parking in a parent and child space. They are not protected, unlike disabled spaces.

I believe there is plenty of room at said car park so no excuse whatsoever for bad parking.

@FatCatThinCat

I have a normally lovely friend who has lost the plot somewhat since her son was born. She's appointed herself chief parking inspector and will challenge anyone she sees parking in a P&C space without a baby (baby, not child). I've told her to stop but she won't, she's fixated on it. Now she's embarrassing to go out with.

I love people like her for the light relief they provide! I returned to my car and was loading shopping into the boot when the local Gruppenfueheress started to rant about lack of child, I let her rant, the more I ignored her the more hysterical she got. She carried on until my daughter joined us with her daughter who had needed the loo before we left the shop. Very satisfying knowing she would be worked up for hours over nothing.

The person who wrote the note is a twit but really - going to the newspapers about it? Just screw it up and throw it away. It says more about the writer than the car owner.

@bridgetreilly

Nothing illegal about parking in a parent and child space. They are not protected, unlike disabled spaces.

No but the signs clearly state that people will be fined for misuse and a LOT of people take the piss - mostly men from what I've seen lately in Sainsbury car park

To be fair to whoever left the note it is frustrating when piss takers park in those bays - usually driving an obnoxiously large car. They weren't to know 🤷‍♀️

So which are you? The note leaver or the note receiver?

When my daughter was just 2, we were in the car when she suddenly started fitting. She haAd turned blue round the mouth and was shaking quite violently. We were quite near the doctors, so we drove there and, unable to find anywhere to park, pulled up in the first road we came to. My husband ran with her in his arms, still fitting, into the doctors with me, heavily pregnant, running behind. When we were eventually able to get back to our car, there was a snotty note on the windscreen saying that this was a private road and to not park there again. If only they knew the blind panic we were in when, quite frankly, we thought our daughter was dying.

Not quite sure why your blue badge entitles you to park in a p&c bay!??

FFS. How is this even a story? what did you post this for? It’s hardly “awful”. It’s a non event. Bin the note and get on with your day. Can’t believe anyone would publish this as “news”.

I don't see an issue with leaving notes as long as they are factual and not abusive.

In this case I'm not convinced the mum needed a P&C space for picking up her DM and DC, she was going into the store herself so could have parked anywhere, no?
Also very odd to leave a baby with a disabled woman who is prone to panic attacks to do the food shopping, when all the mum was doing herself was going to Homebase.

Disgusting - a parking thread with no diagram

Surely if you can’t park a car you shouldn’t be driving? Emergency or not it’s not hard to park in a space 😬.

No I didn’t write the note but I have been tempted many times.

@alphabetsoup1980

Not quite sure why your blue badge entitles you to park in a p&c bay!??

Because they're disabled.

I don't believe her story for one minute.

@ittakes2

I am so confused by this article. I don’t get the whole children at home thing or the court case! And puzzled why if her mum had severe walking difficulties did she leave her baby with her? No wonder the poor dear was having a panic attack!

I’m glad it’s not just me, I found it all very confusing too!

@alphabetsoup1980

Not quite sure why your blue badge entitles you to park in a p&c bay!??

🤣🤣 because a disabled person trumps a parent/child I’m afraid, I disabled person takes priority, mainly because they didn’t chose to be disabled but you chose to have a child 🤔.

Actually anyone can legally park in a P&C space.

People with mobility-related disabilities need the extra space to get in and out of the car, especially wheelchair users. If you're an independent wheelchair user but don't have the space to transfer safely from car to chair, you're stuck.

In my experience, people who communicate via enraged notes stuck to anything are a bit unhinged.

I wonder if these unappointed parking attendants keep paper and a pen in their pockets, just in case the opportunity arises to write a snotty note?

In this case I'm not convinced the mum needed a P&C space for picking up her DM and DC

Because she was a parent (P) picking up a child (C) who she would be placing into the car. It’s exactly what those spaces are for - parents putting their children into and/or out of the car.

Edinburgh must be very short of news.

Leaving notes on cars is dickish. A neighbour who has never said a word to us (her husband is nice though) left a note on my car when I dared to leave it on the street for a single night... it wasn’t even outside her actual house, just on the street next to her garden. Cow.

Time we got shot of P&C spaces and had larger spaces, at a cost, for those whose cars are too big for them to be able to cope with smaller spaces.

I am sure that the enhanced fee would concentrate a few minds.

@SarahAndQuack

Leaving notes on cars is a dickish thing in general.

It depends on the context. DH left a note on our new neighbours' car when they parked across our garage. We didn't know they were neighbours at the time as we'd never seen the car before so what else were we supposed to do?

Sorry, I accept there are some situations where leaving a note is fine - if you're actually needing someone to reply, that's fair. But if you don't expect a reply but just want to be randomly snotty, that's what's dickish.