to have made sure this woman had a parking ticket for christmas?

[MamaMaiasaura]

I know the P&C parking space thing can cause rucks here but i have to admit i saw red today.

Looking for parking in supermarket and see 3 women exit car with zero kids. All looked physically fit and in work clothes. No spaces for me with baby... So window rolls down after i give a little toot. Lady smiles, i smile and ask if she has any children with her. She says no so i ask if she could move her car so that i can park in the allocation p&c space. She said no (expected) and told me to fuck off. I childishly said you are being a bit of a selfish cow taking up those spaces. More abuse from her and she goes into shop.

I find a non P&C space and there is a woman parked 2 cars away with 2 little ones who she physically cant get her children in the car. I help out by watching her 2 as she gets out fo space.

Then i go and check on the car in the p&c space for carseats and for disabled badge. None of either. I report to supermarket who report to traffic attendent.

I dont think i was unreasonable.. but i did think of keying car and perhaps that would have been!

I don't think putting the spaces further away is the answer.

One of the reasons I use the P&C spaces is that they are along the front of the store. I don't have to run the gauntlet of a busy car park full of reversing 4x4 with an exuberant toddler.

Keying probably not the best solution though!

need to read this. Been completely hectic with ds2 - every 2 hours throughout the night! argghh and he just started walking. Trying to fend him off laptop now so got to go xx

i have a 8 seater with 6 car seats in it, at weekends when not working, I cannot bring myself to park in a P&T space. The guilt just gets to me to much.

A very apt and measured approach, op.
ANd best to keep keying as a fantasy.

Was really embarassed once when I had to drop a small baby off to her Mum at a shopping centre. Parked in P&C space. Had plenty of room to get baby seat out and carry in. Then had to return to car, with no child and with no child seats in the car. I was really embarassed (sp?) and dreaded meeting someone....

All you morons threatening to vandalise cars: how brave and fearless of you to damage someone's property before you disappear back to your lives of takeaways, cigarettes and lottery tickets. I hope you do key a car and the owner catches you doing it and keys you.

Not unreasonable to report.

VERY unreasonable to key someone's car regardless of how they park. That would make you far worse than the original perpetrator. Do people really do this?! It is criminal damage surely, if you get caught you'd be inw ay more serious trouble!

Someone keyed our car quite deeply down two panels when it was parked on our drive at home one night. I was gutted Brand new car. No idea why.

wow...doesnotmatter....you don't make many assumption then....lol...your post made me chuckle, as I can't take it seriously...

however, I do agree with those that keying and any other damage really is not the thing to do....you may fantasize about it, but that should be all...of course...

i love it, im always too scared to do anything like that though really will next time now i think!!

i should add thats too scared to report them or say anything, not key them!

it is my personal bug-bear too so yanbu. i thought the purpose of these spaces was that there was a direct walk-way to the shop entrance so you could get to the door with your LO's without crossing roads. well done for the restraint for not keying her car.

(fwiw i asked someone to move the other week and he swore at me. when i came back to the car after shopping there was a big scratch in my car but what goes around comes around so with any luck some kid will ram a trolley into his precious merc next time )

I once shouted to a guy "You've forgotten something" He shouted back "not I haven't" To which I replied "yes your f-ing kids"

Was very hormonal with newborn in tow though

Why do people do this! It happened to me a few years agho when DS1 was little a guy park in the P&C space I said to him would he mind moving and I got a mouthful of abuse I reported him to the store who happened to be on the phone to the police at the time and they told them (the guy was quite agressive to me) they took the reg down and said they would be having words!

Why key the car paint striper would be much more effective

Ooh- I've challenged quite a few people (politely) about their parking in P&T/ disabled parking spaces over the years- some successfully and some not! The last guy I challenged was a youngish exec-looking guy in a huge BMW- I asked politely if he was perhaps not aware that that was a P&T parking space, and suggested he might want to move, because mums with young kids need to open their car doors a bit wider, and have difficulty controlling their trolleys round cars- he moved

I also once challenged a burly ned who parked in a disabled space (my mum was disabled and those spaces were a godsend to her, so I still get a bit indignant about their misuse) His response? "Mind your own business you f**king boot, or I'll kick your boyfriend's head in!" It was actually my DH, who is quite a big guy, but we had our kids with us, and DH was reluctant to start a fight "over a space we don't need anyway" Not that I wanted him to fight, but I think you can tell a lot about a society by the way they treat the weaker members. I wanted to report him, DH wouldn't let me, and WE ended up fighting about it , while asshole-guy got away with it. I can't help but hope karma gets these folk with a disability later on, so they realise just what twats they are being.

"Gosh, i key cars regularly when people piss me off like this.Most cathartic. "

Sounds like you need either an ASBO or a psychiatric evaluation

No need to key anyway - lipstick does as much damage if left

YANBU, it pisses me off too!

When I meet DP and Tom at the supermarket after I finish work on a saturday, I do park in a P&C space if there is one. I'm just waiting for someone to complain because Tom is not in the car at that point.

can I just say, well done OP...this must be the first ever P&B parking thread ever, that hasn't kicked off....