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?

Hi Peachy, I read your earlier post about not being able to get a badge and I'm a bit confused as you say your ds's already have high-rate DLA. Do you just mean the care component or mobility as well? It's just that I didn't have to apply to DLA to get ds's badge, it was the blue badge people at our local council who require you to show evidence of receiving DLA and then they give out the badge. Actually, ds only receives lower rate mobility but we still got a badge because we were able to show that it was for safety reasons (I have to hang on to him the whole time or he would run off - no sense of danger - and he often lies down regardless of if it's the middle of a busy car park). A letter to that effect from the HV helped there. They didn't really argue, perhaps they were worried about getting sued if he was flattened by a car .

I would openly shout at you if I saw you!

Ive just read in the newspaper that Asda are going to start fining people who park in disabled and parent and child spaces when they have no reason to be there! Maybe a few £60 fines will sort people out!!

I already said that, lottiejenkins

Oh dear have i repeated a post? How naughty of me!!! My humble apologies! Smacked wrist for Lottie!!!!!

I went to Tesco this morning at 7:00 before dropping DD at the CM (so dd was with me) and I was surprised at how many disabled people and those with children go shopping at Tesco that early in the morning, as those spaces were full!

Let's get real here - Asda (and others) offer parents and baby spaces - NOT cos they think our babies will melt, but because they want to entice us to come to their store, easily find a trolly and then slap at least £50 on DH's credit card!! That's why those without kids get angry about the special provision cos stores wish to entice them less, cos they spend less (usually)!

my dad is missing most of his right leg we don't take him out in my car very often as we don't live local to him. He doesn't have a blue badge as he can't get in a photo booth. When I take him out I park in a disabled space, people will see us getting in/out and will (should) understand. Although understandable to be annoyed if you just saw the car there with no badge. Might start parking with him on M&T spaces now I have my lovely new baby - legitimate wide space. getting to know where all these spaces in my town are now. I need to open the door fully to get her in and out.

liz79 dd can't have a photo booth pic taken. so we do it on the digital camera if you explain they accept it and he can get a blue badge.

ds1 doesn't do photo booths either- well not to sit in. My dad produced something from a school photo - scanned it in, made it digital photo size. All you need is a head and shoulders shot.

Also lots of photographers do instant passport photographs with a special polaroid camera. I've taken ds1 there before

I gave off (actually was polite " Excuse me, not sure if you noticed, but you are parked....") to a man today for parking in the parents/tots spots (was in a van with trailer and parked sideways taking up two spaces!) told me to f off and mind my own business or he would run me over! (and i had 2yr old mindee with me) a tesco guy came over and told him off too, so i was able to walk away feeling smug

I never do despite the time of day.
Also despise people who park in disabled bays without a badge!

I am over the moon that Asda have announced they will fine people parking in P&C or disabled bays £60 ...bring it on

finally getting a car (have a blue badge already) so will be off terrorising non-disabled poeple who park in disabled bays. Given this will be a motability car and not mine maybe I'll just ram them and say 'oops'

I know I've told this before but

My dh has posed as a sainsbugs manager before now to tell off a bloke who had parked in a disabled bay.

I was really cross a couple of weeks ago, when a golf parked in the disbled bay nearest to our Tesco, a besuited bloke got out, with a boy aged about 10 and they sprinted (literally sprinted) into the store

I went with a friend to Tesco's once and we parked in M&T (dd is 3) and got yelled at by some woman for using the M&T cos dd was in a wheelchair. Therefore she was classed as disabled, not a toddler. week later in Sainbury's we parked in a disabled bay and would you believe we had some old guy having a go cos he said we should have been in a M&T despite dd's blue badge. ffs.
Perhaps all stores should have a 'disabled toddlers' bay just for us

Lets be honest, if you're not disabled you're all capable of walking a few hundred yards to the supremarket with our babies in tow! we make it to the park don't we???

We're all spoilt

I think the m&c spaces are really designed to quietly accomodate those much maligned 'larger vehicles' - in fact we should call them DFFs @designated 4x4 spaces yipee!

NMC youve reminded me of the scene in Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe. Kathy Bates did that to a car belonging to a couple of young girls!

Yes Yes Yes.....sorry I am a disabled and M&B/T parking bay Nazi. I confront those who "illegally" park in them feeling it is my duty in the community to tell them off......until the other day when I dropped ds off at nursery (first time I've been to Tesco's alone for about 18 months) - parked in M&B space and didn't realise til I was in the door what I'd done. On departure, I even hovered around the cash point until a lady with a small baby had left the space next to mine so that I didn't risk a telling off ......

Don't get me started on this subject! It so infuriates me! Everytime we goto Morrisons, I find myself looking in cars for car seats and counting the ones that don't have one in and the number of people who are just sat n the car with the kids. I give them all the evils! .

When I was living in England, and on Mat leave, I had gone to Tesco (where I worked) and wanted to park in a M & B space. There was some young guy parked in one space with a kinda sporty looking car. Obviously no kids! So in my car, I phoned the shop and got them to send the security guard out! By the time ha came out, i'd gotten a space and the guys GF had come out. All she'd bought was some blimmin' flowers!

I was ragin'!

I do think parent and toddler spaces are a necessity, just getting the doors open wide enough to get in the car is a nightmare in many supermarket car parks. Particularly with a baby in a car seat or uncooperative toddler, but at the moment have 35week bump and find getting in and out of the car a complete nightmare so need the extra space to manoeuvre said toddler out of car with wacking bump on anything. Having said that I don't think they need to be next to the front door of the supermarket, that is a better place for disabled bays, In our local tesco I have given up using the parent and toddler spaces and tend to park in the no mans land by the recycle bins at the far end of the car park as there is always space.

Find supermarkets particularly bad though, they are so crammed in, there aren't any P&T spaces in the other car parks in town but I think the car parks are better laid out so its not necessary.

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I see that I was wrong. Sorry. In mitigation I would just say that it was a one-off, a decade ago, and happened for reasons that seemed good at the time, even if they weren't.

Re. the comments about dissolving babies, you'd need to know my family history to understand why I found those comments a bit upsetting, but as it has nothing to do with parking--enough!