Supermarket snitching

[Thegoldenoriole]

I’m sitting in the car in the supermarket while DH has taken the kids in. There were no family spaces left so we are parked opposite, NBD.

I’m supposed to be doing work but I’ve been distracted by the fancy sports car which has just pulled in opposite (into a now vacant family space) and thr smartly dressed man who has stepped out and walked into the shop, notably lacking in children.

I’m sorely tempted to write a note “no kids!” stick it to his windshield and hide behind my dashboard to see his reaction when he comes back. But then also v aware I should mind my own business, people have been stabbed for less yada yada.

What would you do (or like to do if you were more brave!)

YABU: get nose back into work.
YANBU: write the note!

Back to work. It couldn't matter less.

What does NBD mean ?

No Big Deal

Why do you even care?

Smartly dressed, and driving a fancy car? Work is not so interesting I take it!

Go home and put your shopping away.

Unless you have a baby and pram surely your kids can get out a normal space?

Back to work unless you enjoy being a narc. I was once sat in the back of our car holding my crying distraught grandson while my DH dashed into the supermarket to get him a new pair of trousers.

up came some self righteous woman taking photos of our licence plate under the mistaken impression DH was a single man having not clocked us. She soon scuttled off when I stuck my head through the window and asked what she was doing

We do have a baby and a toddler. That’s not really my issue though, pre-kids I still would never have parked in a family space.

Another car has just done the same thing, also a single man, this time a big Audi SUV. I never see women or people driving old bangers do it.

You have no idea 😩😅

Yanbu for being annoyed by this, I once told a man off for taking a family space when he had no kids with him.

In hindsight I should have said "not very good at parking in a narrow space are we? You can get extra lessons for that".

I know many mumsnetters will say "get a life" etc but they are quite possibly men who can't park either.

Yep, he's got a car too big for him to know how to park it. Plonker

Putting a note on someone's windscreen and then hiding isn't snitching.

You didn’t need the family space if it was only your husband getting out the car!!

Leave it alone.
Why do people go looking for trouble.

No but he needed to get in and out sharpish, plus I might have had to take him in to change him!!

YABVU. If I had my way I'd get rid of the parent and child spaces altogether, people are so precious about them.

If it's no big deal that you're not got a family space, then it's surely no big deal who parks in them?

I parked in a parent and child space and was reprimanded by someone else. The nursery is next to the supermarket….

Strong agree.

I did. I spoke to her and got my car keyed for my trouble. I won't ever do it again. I just try to hold it in and silently judge.

😂that's not what parent & child space is for. More room to get baby car seat/buggie out. Child wasn't even getting out so you have misused the space.

no I haven’t. I had a child with me, and I may have needed to get out. They’re called family spaces.

i guess you would’ve written a note

Pisses me right off when I can't find a patent child space and theyre all taken up by non parents/people with children, however, I don't fancy getting my car keyed, having abuse hurled at me in front of my child or worse for being a busy body! They're not a legal entitlement, they are an acknowledgement from the carpark owners that people with children benefit from larger spaces and provide them at good will.
I do however secretly hope that their cars will get a child slam their door open into them, reversed into by a distracted mother or scratched by a toy from an over enthusiastic toddler to teach them a lesson!

Nope, never had the time to leave a note. You said child did not get out, therefore you did not need to use that space.
It's quite simple really 🙄