AIBU to expect to find a "Parent and Child" space when I go to the supermarket?

[BikeRunSki]

I tend to shop at a huge Asda. We live in the countryside and it is our nearest supermarket.

Since DS was born 19 weeks ago, I guess I have been about 10 times. I always check out the Parent spaces and, so far, have never found one free. So I end up parking at the very far end of the car park where I can find two or three spaces together so I can open the car doors to get DS's car seat out and carry him miles to the shop. A lot of the time there have been cars in the P&C spaces that I suspect are not actually P&S cars (two seaters, sports cars with luggage all over the back seat).

On about half my visits there have not been any of those trolleys that I can put his car seat in either.

I have asked customer services if they could consider adding more P&C spaces or policing the existing ones. They have not been interested and have suggested that I shop at different times of day, although all my vists have been at different times of day! (well morning or afternoon, DS hasn't really got into 24hr shopping yet).

I would shop online, but they won't come to us.

The flip side is that our local economy is thriving as I can't be bothered with the big supermarkets any more. But they are handy for things like cans and breakfast cereal.

oh that's ok then

(pass the popcorn though: I've got pmt and I have the munchies)

good point, starlight.

The thing that gets me is that I have two littlies and the extra space at the side of the P & T spaces are invaluable in ensuring that I don't bash the cars either side of me when lifting them in/out of the car.

So it's not really for my sake that I want one of those spaces, it's for the sake of the people who own the cars either side of the teeny tiny space I am forced to park in when they're all taken.

i think throw and egg at it - could be used for a miriad of MN arguments.

we could campaign for a new acronym: TAEAI

what gets me, is all the moaning parents - HAVE YOU NO SENSE?????????

its clear to me lateral thinking is in order

put your baby in the boot dumbo. that way you can get him out if you have a hatchback.

i am going to put that in baby names

Baby Names: what Do you Think of Taeai?

i am off to employ my own advice around the board.

Is that pronounced like Tee-Eye

oooo pass the popcorn please

dont be so ridic!

its pronounced tay eye of course.

aaah, my mistake.

Must be my commonness northernness showing through

are you trying to choose a name with as many vowels as possibel?

roffle at taeai I am so going to use that!

[roll eyes emoticon]

Have you tried throwing an egg at it?

@ her oe him

sure taeah works

If they're parent and child spaces, it's different to parent and toddler spaces surely?

I could take my Mum shopping and park in a P & C space and not break any rules (one parent - Mum: one child - me). A P & T space would need me to borrow a toddler first.

I wish this was my greatest gripe with the world....

what's your greatest gripe then?