Went to collect DD from my mum's last night, and the parking down her road was a nightmare. I parked in the only space I could find - on the hard standing (a legal parking space) just at the end of the turning bay at the end of the road.
I then waddled my huge self up the road to my mums.
I get there, chat, bundle up DD, and the three of us (my mum came to help lift DD into the car) waddle back down the road to my car, to find it has another car parked behind it, completely blocking me in .
The car had a note in the window saying "health care worker on call".
Luckily my mum knows her neighbours fairly well, and had a rough idea who might have a HCW, so we went there, and they said they'd be done in 5 mins or so, and let us know when they were moving the car. Again and . 8pm on a very cold night with a toddler and a very pregnant woman, and "we'll let you know".
Doctor on call I can just about understand, but surely a health care worker has to find a parking space miles away like the rest of us, and walk???
Its not the first time its happened - last time I tried to park at that time of night, it was double parked with the same car, I just didn't look in the window of it as I was just trying to find a space (didn't occur to me about the poor person who'd been blocked in ).
If it happens again, I'd like to see if there is some supervisor or something that can have a word with the woman, but I wanted to check that there isn't some weird double parking loophole for certain jobs....