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AIBU?

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Original poster

to challenge people parking in parent and child spaces

62 replies

bb99 · 13/03/2008 13:28

When they clearly have no children with them, or are heavily pregnant, or have a disabled badge (as the disabled spaces are full cos lazy useless able bodied people have parked in them) or are clearly elderly and infirm!

All those exceptions aside, AIBU to ask people if they've forgotten their children and left them at home alone / in the store?

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popcornprincess · 13/03/2008 13:30

or when they have children but there are about 10 years old!! that narks me.

taipo · 13/03/2008 13:30

I thought Cod's challenge had been banned.

littlelapin · 13/03/2008 13:30

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Original poster
bb99 · 13/03/2008 13:30

Posted wrong - I meant UNLESS they are heavily pregnant, or have a disabled badge (as the disabled spaces are full cos lazy useless able bodied people have parked in them) or are clearly elderly and infirm!

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fryalot · 13/03/2008 13:31

and.....

they're off

notnowbernard · 13/03/2008 13:31

I want to ask why this issue crops up on a fairly regular basis on MN

I've never followed a parking thread before (it seems a bit of a boring one for me, tbh)

Am I missing something massively obvious?

Am I being quite dim?

How come they generate MASSES of posts?

Original poster
bb99 · 13/03/2008 13:34

Was just curious as a very nice and well presented couple who were of an age to have grandkids swore at me a lot the other day as I asked them where their kids were, having just extracted bubs from the car in a normal sized space and then got to track across the car park in a gale!

They told me I was just being selfish!

Luckily they drove away before I could beat their car to death with a trolly...

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FluffyMummy123 · 13/03/2008 13:35

Message withdrawn

taipo · 13/03/2008 13:36

Oh I know it's a new challenge:
"Who can get to 500 posts first?'

mrsruffallo · 13/03/2008 13:40

This challenge has made things really dull Cod

FluffyMummy123 · 13/03/2008 13:40

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VictorianSqualor · 13/03/2008 13:41

I'm so glad I don't drive.
Though where people sit on the bus, now that does get me

VictorianSqualor · 13/03/2008 13:42

Yesterday Cod
I thought it stopped when everything kicked off, Darn.
And I had done so well.

wannaBe · 13/03/2008 13:45

I think p&t spaces should be got rid of. or at least put right at the other end of the carpark, then people wouldn't get so arsy about them.

They don't need to be right by the shop door - babies don't melt in the rain.

pelafina · 13/03/2008 13:46

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notnowbernard · 13/03/2008 13:47

I see, it's a laziness issue!

And the preciousness of parenting!

I like P&C spaces, because I am a lazy-arse

It's always like a prize to actually get one, so I get excited by having one

taipo · 13/03/2008 13:53

Don't get me started on bus rage, VS.
How about those who spread themselves over two seats
Or, people who stare at you blankly when you're struggling with a buggy and 50 bags of shopping?

Original poster
bb99 · 13/03/2008 13:53

I agree with the other end of the car park - I don't care about the walk, or the rain, it's needing to get in and out of a car seat - It ticks me off when I'm without children if some poor unfortunate has to park next to me in a normal space WITH kids cos all the spaces are full of non-kiddy parking, as they're children and are bound to bash the doors.

Have taken to parking at other end of car park, using 2 or more spaces, as I am so fed up of the mayhem at the kiddy parking spots - just gets me as so unnecessary, why do people need to use up these spaces?

Do all the spaces need to be made bigger? Even if just by a bit.

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branflake81 · 13/03/2008 14:22

at my local sainsburys there are the usual rows of p&t spaces right next to the store. At the back of the carpark, as far from the store as you can get, are a row of "wide bays" (I always say they're designed for people who are crap at parking). these are ALWAYS empty as the p&t lot are hell bent on getting as close to the shop as possible. They're might be other options elsewhere if you look....

theBOD · 13/03/2008 15:02

some woman did this to me last night. YABU it's annoying.i'm just popping into the shops and didn't ask for a lecture on my way from the car to the door.

skidoodle · 13/03/2008 15:05

LOL @ theBOD

you kind of did ask for a lecture by acting like an utter c'nt.

needmorecoffee · 13/03/2008 15:05

disabled poeple can park legitaemelty anywhere, including M&T spaces. After all, their need is greater.

needmorecoffee · 13/03/2008 15:07

with you on bus rage taipo. You try getting a mother with a non-disabled child and buggy to move out of the clearly marked wheelchair space. Buggies fold, wheelchairs do not. Normal children can sit on laps, thrashing quadraplegics with no head control cannot.

mazzystar · 13/03/2008 15:08

I think YABU. Its just an excuse to pick a fight. There are many worse injustices in the world to get steamed up about.

theBOD · 13/03/2008 15:11

i hardly think i was acting like a cunt. there were no other spaces free and i wasn't going to circle the car park and let the woman behind me get the space by virtue of the fact that she decided to get knocked up a couple of years ago.strangely enough she didn't seem to understanding either.