To have said something?!

[Briony22]

At the supermarket earlier, and parked in a parent and child space with DH and 10 month old DS.

As I was getting DS out of the car a car pulled into the parent and child space next to us, and a woman got out and started walking towards the supermarket without any kids.

I called after her and said "You know you've parked in a P&C space, yeah?" and she started huffing and puffing that she had her son with her, who was in the car. I pointed out that the spaces are for parents with children who need the extra room to get them out of the car, and then she said that her son was disabled and that she had a disabled badge. I then said that the disabled spaces were in another area of the car park, at which point she started getting her son out of the car and telling him that he had to come into the shop "because that mental lady was kicking off".

I'm just so sick of entitled fuckers using these spaces without any need to when I've often struggled trying to get DS out of his car seat without sufficient space.

DH was mortified and said I should have just left it.

WIBU?

@Purpleforthewin No I meant the part about taking what OP said at face value…

Well the face value is that the op judged and confronted a stranger in a car park without knowing the full situation.
The woman may have been abusing the spaces or she may not. No one but her knows.

To those who referred to me being "cuntish" and "nasty", you've really upset me, and I suggest you think before spouting such vitriol in future - you have no idea what's going on in someone's life.

Are you not being a touch hypocritical here....or do I assume you know exactly what was going on in the life of the lady you wrongly accused?

The lady wasn't in a disabled space. She was in a P&C space and therefore the rules for disabled spaces do not apply.

@Purpleforthewin We were discussing why the woman removed her son from the car. But by all means, take the opportunity for another dig at the OP.

Surely everyone knows those spares are for getting kids in and out. Not for people who will leave them in the car anyway.

Well that is not accurate. We were discussing a question posed by the OP, my response wasn't about having a dig but this is AIBU so by nature of the question the OP is going to be told that yes she was unreasonable to say something because at the point she approached the woman she had no way of knowing the woman's intentions or situation. Anything that happened after that point doesn't change that.
We don't the woman's exact words as the OP only quoted a few words but even so what someone said when harassed may not be a true reflection of her intentions and still has no bearing on the ops actions.

The thread is about the OP’s question but you and I were discussing why the son was removed from the car. Tempted to go for the screenshot again… think I’ll just leave it. 😂

Probably best to leave it as clearly we can't even agree on what we were discussing never mind anything else🤣