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Putting DD in the car

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Lamped · 09/05/2023 11:56

This has never happened to me before but has now happened twice in a fairly short span of time and both times at the same car park.

So both times I've got back to the car and there's been a space free next to me on one side. I've gotten baby DS into his seat then moved DD's pushchair round to the other side (I have her where I can see her while putting DS in) and opened the door so I can put her in. I probably opened the door wider than I would have if there had been a car next to me. Anyway, twice now some guy has decided that he needs that space right that second, one time this man sat there beeping his horn and gesticulating and today someone just decided he was going to back into the space anyway!! He must have ended up parked so close to the car on the other side that I've no idea how he got out.

AIBU to think that if someone's getting their kid into the car then the normal thing to do is to wait for them to finish and shut the door before you try and park? I'm not faffing around getting DD in, I've got shopping in the back and two kids - I don't want to be spending a second longer sat there than I have to! Even weirder, both times there were alternative spaces not far away.

OP posts:
FooFighter99 · 09/05/2023 11:59

Some people have no manners or just common decency. Everyone is in such a bloody rush!

You did nothing wrong, they were being arseholes!

UndercoverCop · 09/05/2023 12:02

They're probably the same idiots who park in patent and child spaces when they don't have a child, then moan because it takes parents a few seconds to strap a DC in, which will impinge on the space next door if it's not a designated wider parent and child space.
I would've pointed towards the nearby empty space and said there's another space there if you're in a hurry

AluckyEllie · 09/05/2023 12:02

Bizarre. Just twat men throwing their weight around, wanting to show everyone who is boss. I hope their testicles shrivel. Or perhaps the breed of person who must be as close as possible to the entrance. I was at the garden centre at the weekend, everyone queuing to get spots near the doors. I went to the back and parked immediately, it was probably a 20 second walk!

Original poster
Lamped · 09/05/2023 12:13

UndercoverCop · 09/05/2023 12:02

They're probably the same idiots who park in patent and child spaces when they don't have a child, then moan because it takes parents a few seconds to strap a DC in, which will impinge on the space next door if it's not a designated wider parent and child space.
I would've pointed towards the nearby empty space and said there's another space there if you're in a hurry

Funny you mention that as it was also this car park where I saw a guy pull into a parent and child space, open the back door of his car, look at the empty car seats, shrug his shoulders and then go into the shop 🤣

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Wibblywobblyway · 09/05/2023 12:25

It’s common courtesy to wait for someone in this situation. Trouble nowadays is that we live in a “me me” society. Good manners are, sadly, on the decline. One of my mothers mantras was “ if you can’t be bothered to do someone a good turn, then you don’t deserve to be on the planet.” Learned this at a very young age, as the saying goes..it’s nice to be nice.

HadalyEve · 09/05/2023 12:27

I think this is happening more often too. I have a disabled child and I see it happening in the parent child spaces as they are usually adjacent to the blue badge places. I feel like Covid made people forget how to act in public as I seem to see more twat behaviour going on nowadays.

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