to park in the parent and toddler spaces when I'm on my own

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if it's 9 o clock at night. I mean, surely, they won't be needed late evening?

Or should I not?

My 5 year old knows that disabled bays are 'for people with badges like great grandad aren't they mummy'

so if a 5 year old can make the link between a great big feck off wheelchair sign, so can everyone else

M&B spaces - anyone can park in them imo, why do we think we need special treatment just because we have a small mewling person with us?

arent babies made of suger and spice and all thing nice, and will melt in the rain?

my parking is SHOCKING so I usually park in no-mans-land way away from everyone else

safer for my paintwork you see

OO, dd2 says 'the blue spaces are for when we have daddy with us, the rest of the time we can use the whoooooooooole car park!'

at the park we go to every weekend [borrrring], there are about 5 disabled spaces

and every week I see people parking in them and strolling off, not a badge to be seen

tossers

surely if babies melted in the rain many of us would have put them out years ago! .

misdee any sign?

no sign.

i'm just going to put dd3 i nthe garden to see if she rusts or melts.

pmsl at kindersurprise! I once had to reverse out before I could get the kids in as well, and panicked because I was worried one of the kids might run off, and forgot to shut my door before reversing. Completely smashed it in, causing £100s of damage.

In our town they have pg spaces. I resent them a bit, and park in them with the kids sometimes. Wouldn't park in a disabled spot though. Also our leisure center has times on it for the mother and toddler - finishes about 7 I think - makes sense really.

Chopster and

This is interesting:
Asda has just announced that they're going to start fining people £60 for parking in P&T and disabled bays when they shouldn't.

I was driving around asda last week looking for a space (any space) and spotted a P&T space, as I saw it, another car also spotted it and when he saw that I was also going for it, he got all arsey and started swearing at me.. I gave it up and then saw another space. Got pram out and Callum out and saw that the bloke and his wife had a child about 7-8 walking into the shop.. did he need to be so rude to me?

The exact same thing happened to me when I had 2 year old twins and a 5 month old baby!!!!!!!!!!!!

Except this couple had NO children with them.

I nearly cried. Strangly enough I think this was ASDA too. I'm off to do my shopping at Waitrose now, where everyone's always nice.

and FWIW i don't agree with P&T spaces, the car park as packed and thatwas first space i found in 5 mins of driving around.

I thought P&T spaces were just bigger so that you can open the doors wide to get the lo's out. Kids over about 6 can get themselves out surely, so up to that age you are entitled to park in them. Being pg means that you have a child with you and are entitled to park there.

Anyway, our Tesco's P&T spaces are only P&T until 8 o'clock - I asked once when doing the late shop.

Dont see why we need M&T spaces. Sure its convenient but people are so wussy nowadays. Didn't have them when I had my elder 3 (15, 14 and 13) but then I didn't have a car and manhandled them onto the bus
And we had legs to walk with too
I do have a blue badge for dd now (severe quad CP and in a wheelchair) but we don't have a car

Mine had pneumonia and bronchiolitis as an infant. I was told by the hospital that i shouldn't have taken him out in some bad weather when I did.

He nearly died because they couldn't diagnose the pneumonia. Fortunately he had the bacterial variety, which is treatable with antibiotics.

This was all ten and a half years ago, as I said. He is pretty healthy but will probably always have lungs that can play up when he's under stress.

I have a clean record on parking in disabled spaces ever since this one episode, ten and a half years ago.

I don't quite see why bad weather and a baby means you need a disabled space though If it's raining or windy you wrap them up warm and put a cover over their car seat (what a faff) or snuggle them under your own coat.

Well bridie a baby with pneumonia is perhaps a different issue isn't it- its clearly a child in need rather than just oh it was wet', had the babies l;ung isues been permanent you may well have had a blue badge awarded anywway

I park in M&T spaces when there are no disabled spaces free.

What winds me up no end is people parking in loading bays.

I was soo busy watching some old boy park his car sideways on 3 parking spaces that I walked into a lamppost.

I couldn't get a disabled space today (I'm a blue badge user), so parked my car across the car park. It was really windy.

Sure enough, a gust of wind swept me off my feet, I finished up rolling about on the ground, until some very kind sainsburys man came to help me up.

As I went back to my car after shopping (with trolly to weight me down !!) I noticed a bloke checking the cars parked in the disabled bays. Sainsbugs only put a note on offenders windscreens tho'.

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But suppose seven families with insomniac toddlers or small babies with a desperate need for Calpol suddenly all needed to go to the supermarket at 10pm??? Or a family with quadruplets needed emergency nappy supplies and it was a lone parent so they had nobody to leave them with at home...

You'd have it on your conscience for the next ten and a half years.

Parent and child spaces are fair game at night as far as I'm concerned. The ones at my local supermarkets are better lit and closest to the main entrance and I feel safer using them when I'm on my own.

Is the Phrase Parent and Toddler not a dead giveaway?it is designated space so YABU someone might need it