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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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skidoodle · 13/03/2008 15:12

ha ha, so you weren't just being a cunt last night? you're one all the time?

Awesome

duchesse · 13/03/2008 15:15

at skidoodle's comment. Always so sparing yet apposite!

theBOD · 13/03/2008 15:25

nope not a cunt. just not going to let some gormless old bint take a space because she doesn't know about contraception.and if the child wasn't an accident but a choice, well then she needs to learn there are consequences to her choices.i'm not going to be treated like a second class citizen just because i don't have kids.

duchesse · 13/03/2008 15:26

erm...what are you doing on Mumsnet if you aren't even a parent?

theBOD · 13/03/2008 15:32

i enjoy the debate

theBOD · 13/03/2008 15:33

and i might knock someone up someday so need to know about kids and stuff and how much maintenance i'd have to pay.

popcornprincess · 13/03/2008 16:14

theBOD - my best mate is looking for a sperm donor. Wanna be her friend??

Original poster
bb99 · 13/03/2008 16:32

Gosh theBod, how right you are.

Let's all be silent and not say anything about anything until they come to take the rest of us away, hang on didn't something like that happen in WW2??

And if ur serious and without kids, just having a go at the knocked up among us, who the heck do you think is going to pay YOUR pensions? The body snatchers?

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theBOD · 13/03/2008 19:02

no my wages.

lardylumps · 13/03/2008 19:22

Get over yourself theBOD. You really do sound like a self absorbed pratt.

WHEN you grow up and start a family (that is of cause if you are able to start a family with that giant chip on your shoulder) I just hope people treat your partner with a bit more respect than you seem to treat the women that you come across.

theBOD · 13/03/2008 19:30

you only have one incident of my interactions with a woman who shouted at me because i didn't observe a m&c parking space which i fundamentally disagree with, and another on here who started our interaction by referring to me as a cunt.

lardylumps · 13/03/2008 19:33

ummmmm no I think you also posted on another thread refering to all women being evil. Bet your mums real proud of you.

StarlightMcKenzie · 13/03/2008 19:34

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bb99 · 13/03/2008 19:50

theBOD - I take it you don't have any qualifications in basic economics then and believe YOUR wages will pay YOUR pension (ROFL)...not that your wages are paying the pensions that currently exist, and with an economic down turn imminent, even with a private pension the funds will need topping off by the new generation of tax payers... SWIM.

Why did you need to use the space, leaving aside the 'there are sooo many of them...' winge.

Don't YOUR legs work, or is your spatial awareness so bad you can't actually get it into a normal space?

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PersephoneSnape · 13/03/2008 19:52

incidentally, asdas parent and child spaces do up to a 12 year old apparently. they reason of you have a child that needs a car seat then you're fair game.

BOD, you're not a c*nt. cunts are lovely. you're a prick, flapping around serving little purpose unless it's for five minutes on an irregular basis,

i love parking threads.

PersephoneSnape · 13/03/2008 19:53

hahah. i 'd out the u the first time and didn't bother the 2nd. cnt c*nt cuuuuuuuuuuuunt.

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bb99 · 13/03/2008 20:21

Persephonesnape!

Lovely take on biology

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theBOD · 13/03/2008 20:39

you mean the thread were alot of women were jokingly (i hope) telling a woman to poke holes in the condom to get her husband pregnant who doesn't want more kids?so i jokingly called women evil the same way many many threads on here contain jokey throw away comments about all men being useless/lazy wtc? pretty pathetic argument if you're resorting to taking jokes out of context.
and as for my economic qualifications i am very confident that my private pension fund will cover my golden years as i will earn a good enough wage to do so.
as for the reason i had to park in the m&c space i have already explained,it was literally the last space in the car park.if any of you are familiar with superquinn in blackrock you will know that the m&c spots are the last ones you pass, so no it had nothing to do with spacial awareness or my legs simply that it was the last space available.
whatever happened to the no personal attacks philosophy of mumsnet?
oh and yes my mums very proud of me.

theBOD · 13/03/2008 20:40

*obviously meant to get pregnant by her husband

lardylumps · 13/03/2008 20:50

Just to highlight your comments re women, that you have made today:

a) She decided to get knocked up!
b) Gormless old bint takes a space because she doesn't know about contraception
c) Typical women = evil

And you don?t really have issues with women do you .

Oh and usually when someone posts a jockey comment it is preceded by a or .

Original poster
bb99 · 13/03/2008 20:55

I could be really mean and ask if you earn over the golden 25K here, to see if you add more to the tax bracket than use...

Have you approached the supermarket about more spaces?

Would you have parked there if there were any other spaces, or in a disabled space if there was a blue badge behind? - the one's I'm talking about are in a HUGE carpark and it's often single people - men and women, or younger retired couples (like they don't have enough time to find another space, tee hee) using them when there are other spaces within the same walking distance...WHY WHY WHY do they need to do this?

Just curious, as I am thinking of pestering the supermarket - one round here has recently introduced fines for wrongful parking, it was on the news and everything! Maybe see if they would consider moving P/C spaces to the other end of the carpark, as they get stroppy if you overpark more than one space, even if it's impossible to get in / out of car and there are lots of spaces around...

Don't expect special treatment just as I'm a breeder, just don't expect people to be completely selfish pratts - have you ever tried extracting a writhing baby from a fixed seat, while the wind slams the doors into your legs, or the car door next to you? It can be a tad frustrating, specially when someone waltzes back into their car in the lovely wide space, with their lunchtime sandwiches

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theBOD · 13/03/2008 21:12

so lardy are you taking everyone to task on that thread who did not use an emoticon?i gathered from the tone of the thread that it was an obvious windup or joke so presumed it was obvious i too was joking.

and two of those comments refer to one paticular woman who i found rather rude.do you presume that if a woman gives out about a particular man and in her complaints she makes a reference to his sex she has a problem with all men?
i have absolutely no issues with women, some of my best friends are women (god that sounds like a stereotypical racists defence).i have an issue with m&c parking spaces.admittedly there are a lot of women i dislike for many reasons the same way there a lot of men i dislike.
bb99 the only reason i parked there was it was the only space available.if there were other spaces easily available i would use them as it is easier and quicker to get out of this particular car park if you use the normal spaces further away from the door and also there is less chance of someone deciding to have a go at you for it.
no i would never park in a disabled space as it is illegal and wrong.my dad who is handicapped can use them but as he's still fairly able bodied he will avoid using them if possible so someone who needs it more can get the space so that has always been bred into me.

theBOD · 13/03/2008 21:13

oh and yes i do earn more than 25k but that's in euro so not nearly as much as sterling and our tax brackets are different.

Original poster
bb99 · 13/03/2008 21:22

Friend has stickers to put on wing mirrors of cars parked in disabled spaces, without a blue badge, thinking of getting some printed!

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theBOD · 13/03/2008 21:24

good idea.what do they say,just something about being selfish presumably?