Called a "c*nt" in front of his kid over a P&C spot...

[SorryIParkedWrong]

Hi all,
Need a sanity check on an interaction I had yesterday that's still bothering me.
I used a Parent & Child spot yesterday at a quiet retail park. I know, technically wrong, but I was doing a massive haul for a house move and needed the boot space, and loads of other P&C spots were free so I wasn't leaving anyone without.
The issue happened when I got back to my car after shopping. I was in the driver's seat, engine on, and was just about to reverse out and leave.
A car pulled into the P&C space next to me. A woman got out with her young child and. She came right up to my window, which was cracked open, and said in a really aggressive tone, "You shouldn't be parked there."
Not wanting any drama or to explain my point to an emotionally enraged individual, I just said, "Ok," and put the car fully in reverse to leave. That's when she and the dad who appeared completely kicked off. Standing right by my car door, she launched into an absolute tirade.
She was shouting all sorts - "cunt," "fucking little shit," "look at your shit car," "fucking shit driving." All while her own young child stood there watching the whole thing.
I briefly stopped reversing, said through the window "I hope you have a lovely rest of your day," and then started to move again. She and her husband just kept going with the abuse, so I stopped the car again because I was just in disbelief. I looked at her and started laughing at the sheer absurdity and the level of her rage.
I know I shouldn't have used the spot. But AIBU to think her reaction was completely unhinged? Does my minor error give someone the right to hurl that level of personal, nasty abuse at a stranger, especially in front of their own child?
It honestly felt like she was just projecting all her life's problems onto me over a parking space. What do you think?

This scenario reminds me of my mum’s favourite saying, “Two wrongs don’t make a right”.

2 wrongs, lesson learnt. Move on.

You were selfish and entitled
She was aggressive

Both if you are examples of what is wrong with society these days

After the short while of this post, I agree with alot of you. I chose to park there when I shouldn't and laughed at them when I shouldn't, so I am sorry and seriously will not do it again, as I'm able-bodied individual who was in hindsight being lazy and not mindful of other people's necessity of that space I took. Just a little note that having an interaction like that Infront of your child "Will" have long term negative affects on how they perceive conflict and how they will manage it, taking out the frustration in anger is not the way, if the parent approached differently we could of had a constructive conversation, but they chose to insight verbal conflict and project a negative lens onto the interaction. I Hope you all have a lovely rest for your Sunday stay mindful!

Oh another thread with the c word in the title. Nice 🧐

Ì wouldn't have called you a c**t, but I hugely resent this kind of casual disrespect of civic norms. For some reason it's more irksome because of how 'small' a thing it is, and hence in some ways more inexcusable. In my view there is a special circle of hell reserved for the people who can't be bothered to return their supermarket trolley to a designated spot, but instead leave it loose in the middle of the car park. I mean sure they are not murdering anyone, but it's the pure casual disrespect, thinking you're above the rules other people abide by, when these rules are so easy to keep and make all our lives easier.

Lazy entitled twat gets shouted at by another twat.

Sounds pretty fair to be honest.

I love this 🤣

Off topic but I agree and think whether someone returns their trolley to the the trolley bay is a 99.9% indicator of whether someone is a good or bad person.

Because you have a need for it. No one reasonable is going to object.

Unlike OP who decided what she wanted overrides the system.

I would have laughed in their face too tbf

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Two wrongs don’t make a right.

I Will generally defend people using P and C spaces because they have a physical need to to the hilt. But “because it has more boot room” is shit and why people who do need that space end up getting abuse hurled at them!

Yes, she was unhinged.

I think parking in a P&C space without a child (or without a disability) is sort of the moral equivalent of queue jumping. “I’ve decided my convenience trumps all so I’m doing it. It’s not against the law!!”

To be fair the person giving her abuse had no idea if she had any additional ‘need’ for the space.

Perfect interpretation of the P&C rules. I’m going to do this with my mum, if we can’t get a BB space, she is more wobbly than a 2 yr old. And needs the passenger door to be fully open to steady herself.

@SorryIParkedWrong she’s unhinged. Park wherever you like as long as it’s not a double yellow or a disabled space without a blue badge. I never parked in parent and child spaces when DD was young, I don't think I've ever parked in P&C space but I will park in closest logical space if I have a big haul of something.

Yeah they shouldn’t of behaved like that infront of their child but you’ve caused this situation yourself.

Drives me mad when people park in spaces like that because they “need” more space. Not sure how you need more space than a parent trying to open car doors in normal spaces, to get their kids out of child seats and manoeuvre a baby seat in and out of the car.

A p&c space doesn’t really give you loads of boot space, next time just park further away and walk with your trolley.

Given their reaction to your minor indiscretion I suspect that wasn’t the first or the last time that kid will hear their parents lose their shit.

She was factually correct.

I think you behaved terribly tbh. Everything you did was antagonistic but you know that. It’s the entitlement that’s quite shocking. I mean what makes you so special? I wouldn’t have called you a cunt to your face because I’m not that rude but you did behave like one.

Matthew 7:3-5
New International Version
3 “Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? 4 How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? 5 You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye."
Here endeth the lesson for today.

Their behavior was horrible, but you shouldn't have parked there. You both behaved badly in different ways: they're a pair of anti social gobshites and you're entitled and selfish.