To be annoyed that our local tescos have changed their P&C spaces to disabled.

[Jenswish]

There was a letter in the local paper from a disabled person saying that the P&C spaces weren't needed and that they should be changed to disabled ones.

Even though there is disabled spaces about 1 min walk from the door anyway.

They've now got rid of P&C spaces and replaced them with yet more disabled!! Theres about 30 of them now but no-where for the mum and kids.

Am I being evil?

I just wish that all spaces were bigger, tight supermarket owning gits.

they don't deliver in my area, either.

i live in the sticks.

i have a 4 year old and 1 year old and am pregnant.

so they have to come along because by the time DH gets home from work it's too late for me to make it to the shop and back before the last ferry.

so we park in the back and walk.

it's not hard.

even with two of them.

that's why i have legs that work.

[rolls eyes]

wwaaaaa, tigger!

i drive to the supermarket.

no choice.

out in the sticks, no bus, etc.

park in the back and walk if you want more room?

no wonder people are all getting fatter and fatter.

i mean, are folks really that lazy nowadays?

Yes expat. They are.

Sorry but what difference would parking at the back make? I do often park there it's not the distance it's the space, our supermarket car park is always full.

Trouble is expat that unless supermarkets have decent pedestrian areas you take your life and that of your kids in your hands; trying to avoid the scores of shite drivers who are not aware they have a rear view mirror, or that they have to use their eyes at all for that matter.

lucky you having a supermarket that isnt permanently full up in day time

But we managed before they existed tigger so what's changed?

whinge, whinge, whinge!

i've never lived in a place where people made so many excuses for being lazy.

you don't take your life in your own hands walking across a car park, fgs, you do that just getting up in hte morning and stepping outside your door.

it's ENTIRELY possible to get kids out of a car seat with people parked up next to you.

people do it all the time.

with more than one child.

exactly, saggar.

Jeez, I guess I never appreciated my Tesco before... we have a huge car park.. loads of pedestrian walk ways.. even a zebra corssing & lots of baby seat trollies

Totally agree with Expat.

why is wanting more room lazy?

What's a corssing?

Of course I mean crossing

Hold their hands. Use reins. Park slightly off centre so you can open driver's door and the door behind it (unless you have two children in stage 1 car seats, which admittedly might get tricky).

If all else fails, queue for the P&C spaces if you really feel you need them.

it's silly, ols!

i mean, i want a million pounds, too.

so what?

get over it!

It is possible to get a car seat out if the car next to you isn't parked right up close like alot of idiots do! Oh and how did this become a personal attack on me? I actually walk quite alot, my sons nursery is a 30 min walk from house which I do twice a day and I am also in training for the moon walk (26 mile walk for breast cancer)so I wouldn't say I was lazy just respectful of not banging my car door into into someone else's car.

i agree it is entirely possible to manage in a normal space, and im sure thousands of people do manage everyday, but at the end of the day if you have small children you will always pick a p+c space over a normal one because it makes the weekly shop that little bit less stressful, there is nothing lazy about that.

shop online if it is that much of a PITA

TBH i rarely park in a P & T space (they are always full of sports cars ) but me and DS manage to make it unscathed to the entrance and back out again

tigger - I don't know why its about attacking anyone, I just asked if I could be annoyed about changing P&C spaces into more disabled ones and not having ANY in the car park at all.

I didn't once mention that I didn't want to walk, or anything like that.

Don't worry about it, I'm just watching now.

But it's not necessary is it?

think i'll join you jenswish

no but its nice.

Expat that's shite. The car parks I've been in a full of completly rubbish drivers who cannot manouver their vehicles and look in the mirrors at the same time.
It's bloody dangerous having so many of them around, far more dangerous than crossing a road. You haven't got a clue really.