Parent and childparking.................................wheres your child????????????????

[littlepiggie]

Why do people insist on parking in spaces allowing easy access to your baby, when they have no baby with them?
While at asda today a bloke parked in the last p+c space, with no child!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is made worse by the fact that the first time i took ds out on my own (again to asda) i have to walk from the far end of the car park in the rain. When i got back to my car someone had parked so close i was unable to open the door where his car seat was.
So soon after giving birth i was climbing over seats with a new baby to get him into the car.
I had to ring dh at work cos i could not stop crying, saying i never wanted to go out on my own ever again!
Lucky for me he has a 0-4 car seat not an infant carrier, i would never have got that in without moving the car out of the space, what would i have done with ds while doing this?

So for anybody who has been there

And for anybody parking here with no child or a child that is old enough not to need the extra space !!!!!!!!!!!

I know this will get someones back up but i dont care as i think somethings need to be said.

Why does a 12 year old child need the extra room, and why does a bloke on his own, to me its just lazy!!!!!!

I would love to know what other people think, or am i a missery.

I think the answer to freckle's problem is to put the childlock back on. And see what the 12yo's think of that!

i started a similar thread a couple of months ago & got quite heavily jumped on. some responded along the vein of "ffs people can park where they like" and this pissed me off even more tbh.

thankfully, many other sensible mnetters pointed out that getting het up with other people parking in p&c spaces, esp when you can never be 100% sure of the circumstances (i'd given a guy a "look" & i'd still bet my last rolo that he had no child with him) puts you in a potentially dangerous situation.

yes they're handy if there's one free but better to be "totally zen" about them as somebody said. that's pretty much how i am now.

Agree. Agree. Agree. Make me sooo when people who don't need to park in the P&C spaces. No necessity. Rah!

i have parked in a m+b space with no children before and only realised when i was walking back to the car! It was an automatic thing for me to do, goes to show how often i get out the house by meself lol
Does annoy me when i have no room to get into my own car when i have to park ekse where though

Must just add to your stories.

On Saturday we(including ds in his car seat) were dropping off dd to do fund raising bag-packing at our local Sainsbury's. As we drew up, I said to dh 'There's a perfect example of an old git taking a parent's parking place. In his Jag with a pastel v neck jumper on, probably just before a game of golf, nothing wrong with his legs. Selfish so and so.'

Anyway, I took dd in and got her sorted and came out. Dh had parked in front of jag man who couldn't get out. When he had to get out his car to ask dh to move, dh told him that he was in a parent place which meant that it couldn't be used by the people that it was intended for(very politely) Jag men then told him that he was moving his car so dh had better shift. By this time I had comw out shop and saw that something was going on but waited till it was done. Dh moved and jagman drove right on his tail till he stopped to pick me up, with a very raging face.

Maybe next time he won't do it again, and you can bet the golf club heard all about some cheeky having the audacity to do that. (Shows that dh listens to my ranting too!)