People who park in child and parent spaces when they don't have kids.

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Does this annoy anyone else? I personally don't care about the distance from the shop but I need the room to get my kids out of the car. And when I say when they don't have kids I mean they don't have them with them or a disabled badge or anything. Where I am from it happens so regularly. It makes me so mad 🙈😂

I makes my blood boil!

Yeah its annoying and selfish

Must have been at least 2 days sonce we had this thread. Nothing will have changed since the other twelfty thousand threads.

Some people will be furious, some won't care, some will compare them to blue badge spaces, people will talk about distance from store vs wider spaces.

Literally nothing new will be said but it will still run to about 658 posts.

I can't find it in myself to give a shit.

They may be collecting kids, they may be disabled but not have a badge, they may just be an arsehole, either way the spaces are full so you can be grumpy about it, which will only effect you, or find a space further back where its quieter and get on with it.

If the spaces are full, they’re full. I couldn’t bring myself to care who has filled them.

No but I am kind of fascinated by people who get so angry about it to they claim their blood is boiling. Does it make you feel part of some club you’re trying to protect?

it’s a parking bay that belongs to Tesco or whoever. The mini nazism it inspires in people is bonkers.

As handy as the spaces are they seem to have encouraged a sense of helplessness amongst some mothers.

If a space is free then great use it. If not park elsewhere.

It's annoying and extremely selfish. Same goes for the people who park there with kids but don't actually get out of the car, and people who park there with a teenager (she's my child! It counts!) 🙄

I’ve done it at quiet times when I’ve assumed the demand for those spaces would be low such as in the evenings. Which is probably a hanging offence here. But I wouldn’t during the day.

Flippantly comparing things to Nazism is far more bonkers.

Sorry!! I park in them sometimes if I have my mum with me. No BB (she should have one, but its a long story) so if there is a P&C space free we use it. Easier to help her in/out the car etc.

It never annoyed me when I had young DC though tbh. Just parked further away and factored in poss parking/door opening issues when I bought the car seats. If I couldnt get a baby into a seat in a normal space id have handed my licence back i think 😆

Completely and utterly selfish. People do it all the time at my local Tesco. It’s highly irritating when you genuinely can’t open the door wide enough in a normal space to get your baby /toddler out and then some selfish lazy arsehole uses a parent and child space. Whenever I challenge them, oops they didn’t realise, BS they didn’t realise. No, they aren’t going to collect kids either. Disabled with out a badge? Bollocks. I have seen it so many times, whilst there are disabled spaces. Just selfish morons.
If you aren’t annoyed by this, it’s clearly because it doesn’t effect you, you obviously don’t have babies and/or young children in car seats that you need to lift in and out.

Or maybe they’re a calmer more rational person?!

It is very annoying. I had a really bad accident some time ago, and I would park on the far side of car parks to find enough space to get out of my car (I needed crutches to lever myself out for a while as my car is low).

I never once used a parent space. It’s so selfish to take a space that a parent needs.

Yep, I’ve done it. When I was struggling to walk on two sticks (zimmer frame at home) and needed to get to the pharmacy at the supermarket. Was too new a problem to qualify for a blue badge, and there was no regular parking near enough the entrance for me to make it. Selfish? Nope. Absolute necessity. I needed it far more than the vast majority of parents.

BB spaces are different to P&C spaces, which are just a curtesy. Holders of BBs are told by supermarkets to use P&C spaces if BB spaces (that have legal requirements) are full, not that you could stop them anyway.

This again! There are a thousand threads already on this!!

That was completely unnecessarily martyring yourself. You had a need for that wider space for a clear medical reason. You would have been entirely justified in using one rather than making yourself walk further on crutches.

As always, this isn't about people with medical needs/mobility aids/blue badge pending

A really straightforward solution to this would be to not bother with them at all. TBH I don't know why shops do.

Look the real problem is the UKs total inability to plan public spaces in any kind of decent way (example B. Toilets)

If regular car park spaces werent so stupidly small / awkward for moderm cars people likely wouldnt do this.
If P&C spaces were next to the entrance... people wouldnt fo this.

Our little yaris have been dented dinged and bashed more times than I care to think of.
i dont think its malice..... it thoughltessness plus lack of space.

If you just got a 40k/60k/80k car you dont want it getting bashed up so you nab a P&C space. You are feeling a bit lazy so you nab a P&c spot

The real villain is city planners / car park planners and friends

I say this as someone regularly twisting into pretzels trying to get a 2 and 3 yo in and out

They are c you next Tuesdays, there’s no other way around it.

It’s incredibly awkward to lift young children up and manoeuvre them into modern car seats without any room to open the door.

Someone parking 10 inches beside your car has absolutely nothing to do with a parent’s ability to drive.

I'll be honest, there have definitely been a couple of occasions when I've accidentally parked in the ones at my local supermarket, forgetting I don't have DS with me that day (95% of the time when I go there, he's with me) - it's force of habit to park in the same place. It's not something I'd ever deliberately choose to do but I don't think it's crime of the century.

It didn’t bother me so much when I only had 1 child because most of the time I could choose a bay at an edge so I could still get her out, now I have 2 under 2 so need to be able to get a child out of both doors it is a pet peeve of mine though 😂 I don’t care about being close to the door, I need the extra space!