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

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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.

You don't want to know wot, not the time nor place.

aw you spoil sport!

Oh all right, what was my last post here? Oh that's right, shops not pricing their goods correctly, or another one, more than one parent in a swimming pool lesson?

oh I read the shops pricing one. Very annoying. Especially if you haven't managed to get a parent and child space!

Buy boil-in-bag fish or extra potatoes and shove them up the exhausts...

it is very annoying I agree. However, you don't know that they haven't just taken an infacnt carrier out of the car.

I use p&t spaces not because I'm lazy, but because the spaces at my js are so ruddy small that I have to squeeze dd in through the window if someone parks too close! It was impossible to use a regular space when she was smaller. The infant carrier simply wouldn't fit through the gap, and if it did, you could bet your bottom dollar you couldn't get it back in! So if there were no appropriate spaces I used Disabled parking and would speak to customer services about it before I shopped. Ooooh is this going to be my first flaming??

I tried to start a thread on this when I was new to Mumsnet cos it pisses me off too, I got a full verbal beating. It is very irritating when folk use these spaces when they have no need to but here is not a good place to talk about it, you will be met with abuse.

Lol, wiggles. My first thread was a SAHM vs working mum thread and I got a slating too. Whoops! Ironically, I was asking for advice as I was a working mum who was just about to become a SAHM. Ah, the joys of MN, eh?

The flip side to this issue is that you can always get a space elsewhere in the car park where it's far less crowded.

unreasonable to expect it - treat it like the lottery - when you get one - bonus if not - then it was someone else's lucky day.

i have in the past had to get the children to climb in through the boot as people can't see that there are 3 kiddies seats in my car and they park so close that i can barely get in my car.

We have then had to pull out of the space so that i can get straps done up

if you get a space you get one, if you don't you don't, what do you think everyone else in the country did before these p&t spaces were invented!

It's much more fun to deliberately park as far away from shop as possible, in the rain, then get DC to fall asleep and send DP in alone.

However, I have been known to have words with people parking in the P&C places, including a very old lady, who may or may not have had a blue badge....

ooooh!

All very restrained here so far

It's much more fun to deliberately park as far away from shop as possible, in the rain, then get DC to fall asleep and send DP in alone.

However, I have been known to have words with people parking in the P&C places, including a very old lady, who may or may not have had a blue badge....

Groundhog thread!

"So if there were no appropriate spaces I used Disabled parking and would speak to customer services about it before I shopped. Ooooh is this going to be my first flaming?? "

you deserve one anyway.
able-bodied people parking in a disabled space is so selfish,inconsiderate and thoughtless that it's unforgivable.

uh oh here we go

Have tried sitting on my hands but it doesn't work........

All of you who need to park across 2 or 3 spaces so you can get your DC out of the car - what are you driving? A hummer? Park properly, between the white lines, and okay, you might not be able to fling your door wide open, but you can still get DCs into and out of the car.

I had an absolute fit one day on a poor little old lady in our local shopping centre car park. I had had to park in a little tiny space as there are no P&C spaces, and she wound down her window and started shouting at me for hitting her car door with my car door while I was trying to get dd out in her car seat.

The air was blue when I responded, I tell you. Not my finest hour.

cq i was selling htem for a fiver, but they are running out so am forced to up them to 7.50

I think P&C spaces are for children in carseats and toddlers, so that a) you can open your door wide enough b) if it's raining you don;t saturate your small child and c) so you're not walking accross a car park with a toddler or leaving dcs in the car whilst you fetch a trolley.
YANBU
After dc4 I find trolley's with my heavy 2 yr old and 11 week oild bloody heavy and so the less pushing the better.

dump your trolley in a really awkward place, after all why should you leave dc alone in the car while you trek back to the trolley park. I would just do what you are doing and take up several spaces. And also asda staff being generally very helpful, at the till say you need someone to push the trolley back to the car for you as you have a bad back and trolley very heavy with kids and goodies !!