To wonder why there are always more disabled spaces than mother&baby spaces in car parks?

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In places like Waitrose, John Lewis, etc. Surely there are more mothers with little children out there than disabled people?

DD introduced herself to them, Thumb - we were in the supermarket about 6 months ago, someone tapped me on the shoulder and said "is that your child?" - to which I turned and found she had desecrated the kinder egg stand and was covered in chocolate. How does that happen in a matter of seconds?
I'm dreading easter...

(apologies for thread hijack)

MIL showed me the car seat she used for DH, he's 39 next week!

Odd thing, had a potty underneatrh in a space where you could pull back the chair for emergency use, yuck. Goodness knows why she hung onto it[ somehow I don't think the two coat hangers over the back to cvlip onto the seat system is quite what we're after these days..

if you are going to a supermarket, you can use a trolley for babies, I don't think I ever used took in my carseat as it didnt fit the Asda carseat trolleys. If not needing a trolley take a buggy.

I remember my father being very conscious of safety. He strapped the carrycot into the car with my DB in it. Didn't strap the baby into the carrycot, like. Thought that counts.

I remember looking for a P&T space at our Tesco, baby and 4 year old in tow. Now it IS possible to get a baby and toddler safely out of car and into trolley in a normal space, just not as easy. But saw red when the car ahead of me took last space, and it was a woman and her teenager. Found her in the store and asked her why she thought she could park in a parent and child space, and she said "she is my child, as much as they are your children, so I am as entitled as you to use those spaces". WHAT???

My neice is 22 and she had a rear facing car seat as a new baby - though there wan't a carry handle

Can't be arsed to read thread, as I know the outcome etc etc

BUT I would just like to say that I am glad that the same old AIBU threads are still doing the rounds [nostalgic]

lilolilmanchester - gosh if you follow her logic then I could go shopping with my mum and we'd have the choice of P&T or disabled spaces!

I for one have no problem with P&T spaces being at the far end of the car park as long as there is a safe route across the car park. I always keep my toddler under control but that doesn't stop the problem of the idiots who a) reverse without looking, or b) hare around the car park like maniacs.

And has no one else encountered a car park where the spaces slope down towards the roadways and trolleys with no brakes? That's another reason why I like to have space to park the trolley next to the car. I wonder if having remote central locking makes a difference to one's view as well.

fortyplus, have had the exact same thought when shopping with my Mum!! What planet do some of these people live on?!

My younger sister is 41 and I remember the car seat we had for her, don't know if I used it first though. It had two big hooks on the back to fix it in the car (very safe ) and we've got a great photo of her in the seat, hanging on a gate during a picnic. If only modern seats were so versatile

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By strange coincidence I got the renewal form for ds's blue badge today. It's going to take a while to fill in, lots of hoops to jump through, evidence to gather etc. I wonder how many people saying that they simply must have a special space to take their babies shopping would bother if they had to go to so much trouble?

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Pixel you can jump through hoops and get a badge......

Lilolil- Like the Peter Kay joke goes- "It doesn't say how old the child has to be -does it?"

LOL houseworkhater (fab name!) tho I think/hope! Peter Kay was just joking!!!!!!!!!! Honestly I couldn't believe that woman. Am not a violent person, thankfully, otherwise could have so easily smacked her!

good grief do people get that upset over a P&T space.....

I'd just like to say I know of blue badge holders who only are borrowing the badge from some one else and are disabled at all so that they can get 'closer' to the door.

The bigger annoyance. Those of you that sit across TWO parent a child spaces chatting away with your suv's running and while yes you have a child's seat in your vehicle -there's no child in the there with you today!

(Just got back from a very busy shop during which my darling screamed the whole while, exasperating my migraine and I couldn't find anywhere to park at all except in the lot across the road at a B&Q...)

why cant you just park and walk into the shop like most abled bodied folk?
i managed to get into a shop with 4 kids without parking at the checkout,anyway, its godd for them to walk.

Mummies often have a go at me for parking in "their" spaces,I basically tell them to shove it.I make a point of parking in one.

I can't help wondering how people who find shopping with children so difficult are ever going to cope with school admissions, sports days, teenagers, drugs and alcohol, GCSEs and A levels, boyfriends / girlfriends ............

bebemoo - please do report them to the coucil if you know they are doing it - people who genuinely need a badge have enough trouble finding a space without having to compete with people who've borrowed one.