to leave a note on the car that parked in the parent & child spaces but did not have any kids..

[lovecamping]

so sunday lunchtime at the supermarket, i was with the kids in the car whilst dh gets some milk. a car parks next to us and a couple get out but had not kids or even car seats. i was so so when dh got back, i left a note 'where is your child?, dont you know how to read?'

that was bad of me was it?? what also inflamed was that 10 mins later, there was a porsche and another car also parked in the spaces. i saw all the people and none of them had kids.... WTF is wrong with people???

they took all the spaces, then as we're leaving, a woman comes along with NO children and parks where we left...

b***ds

I don't think the note will have helped - I think people who think they're above these courtesies don't give a flying f*ck that they've pissed you off.

And maybe Lovecamping meant to get out with the kids when they parked....? You're a tough lot sometimes.

Once got to a carpark and an old guy pulled into the last parent & child space. He put up his diasbled badge and hooved it. Wouldnt have minded but there was loads of spaces in the diasbled part... What was that all about.

I nearly lost my mind over it until my brother told me I was acting like a physco!!!

auntyspan so her dh couldn't move the car!!

oh I knew there would be a parking thread again sooner or later.....

My local Asda has just started issuing penalty tickets if you park in P&T spaces without child and child car seat.

In over 5 years I never ever got a P&T space...in last 3 weeks I got one EVERY time.....hurrah for wardens and penalty tickets (and it's not often I feel that way!)

Not wrong to leave the note. Definitely wrong to park in the space yourself when you weren't taking the kids into the shop.

Next time, better make sure you're in the right before you chastise someone else.

Dilbertina, what about people who put their infant carriers on the trolley? Asda still issuing them with penalty tickets?

The world's gone mad.

DP is always moaning about this. He once started shouting at a woman who parked it M&B in tesco whilst I sat in the car. When she got out she looked like she was about to drop..ooopppss. Not sure if this counts as M&B?

I have seen supermarkets advertise the M&B spaces for mums to be as well and thank god, I would never have got out the car while pregnant with either of mine had I not had the extra room.

Shopping online resolves this issue sans problem!

MN classic!!

No wonder she's scarpered

saw a person parking in mother and toddler with no child get their comeuppance (sp?) yesterday. they crashed into a bollard whilst trying to get in space. it was looking fairly crumpled

Owning a porsche or any sporty little number doesn't mean you don't have kids! I have had a coupe style sporty looking car which looks like it doesn't have back seats, loved watching people like the op face as I reached in for ds off the back seat!
Agree it can be annoying when you want to find a space when shopping and people do park in these spaces who don't need to, but it isn't worth getting upset about! I think all p and t spaces should be as far away from store as possible, that would stop the problem!

You're no better than they are if you didn't get dcs out of the car - hypocrite!

I just don't get this whole parent and child parking hullabaloo.
I don't understand why people are so enraged if "unqualified" drivers park in those spaces. I really don't care all that much.
What's so hard about walking a bit further, or is it the extra space on each side of the car? I've never even thought much about it but I see it so much on here.
Why?

Bah.
You're all softees.
na na ne na na!

Its not the walking a bit further cadelaide, its the space you need on the side of the car to get little ones in and out with bashing someones door. They should position parent and child spaces away from the door then they wouldnt have this problem as lazy asses would find another space to park.

I am not bothered about it enough to post a note on a car but it does wind me up, esp if it's a sat afternoon and there are no spaces.

This thread is hilarious.

ooo, just in time. Got motability car today so loaded dd's wheelchair in and went to a supermarket (wont say which one )
dd is 3 so qualifies as toddler.....
all disabled bays taken up so parked in M&T, lowered ramp and was pulling dd's wheelchair our when some women with (get this, kids over 10) started shrieking at me that we should be in the disabled bays. I pointed out that dd is a toddler and she says 'well, if she's disabled it doesn't count'
So I'm afraid I said 'faff off'

Right, I see.
But how d'you manage in other places where you have to park close to other cars?
Can't you just sigh a bit and get on with it, like we all do with so much of the everyday "handling small kids" crap?
You all seem so very, very angry about this one thing.

needmorecoffee, that was to jojosmaman

I figured. M&B places do me laugh though. My older 3 are teens and back then in the olden days there were so such things as M&B places. We just managed.
So weird driving a car after so long. We've done buses with dd's wheelchair and pushed her miles and its so freaky to just get in a car. Its so easy peasy so walking across a car park probably wont register yet.
Give me a few weeks and I'll be a frothing car driver too

needmorecoffee, that's shocking - what a silly cow. Well done for telling her where to stick it.

jojosmaman isn't coming across as angry at all, cadelaide. Are you getting her confused with the OP?

Can't be good for you, all this outrage and indignation.
Misdirected I say.