Result! Successfully managed to evict RAC driver from mother & baby parking slot!

[pacinofan]

Driving round and round Tesco's today, as usual no m&b parking slots, we have two little ones in the back. I spot an RAC van going into one - no kids. Bravely decided to ask if he wouldn't mind moving as he seemed to have parked in m&b spot in error. Tells me to bog off. Dh gets out, asks politely, no result until dh asks for his name, surprisingly he gave it, and we take his reg. RAC van driver reverses out of spot at a rate of knots in a whirl of smoke, and we get to park in said spot.

Wonder if he'd hop in a disabled bay in just the same way?

DH parked in one when he went shopping with his mum last week - well they were parent and child so clearly it was OK ??

and M&B are NOT the same as disabled spaces.

you are so wrong hunkermunker, hun
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Sounds logical to me Scatterbrain.

Scatterbrain, only ok if your dh went in the little seat at the front of the trolley and mil peeled him stolen grapes with her teeth.

Yes MB, tablecloth flying out behind me cape style, footballs raining down on cats like sleet.

why dont you just do an online shop?

Baby never gets wet, you never have to navigate across a car park etc etc.

Sheik, pmsl at you eating gravel

Oh God - Boco did you see him ??? How embarassing !!! He said no-one saw him !!!!

snigger at "mummatoshazzatwinkle"

Leaving the baby sitting on the butcher's counter where they parked him to make room for the meat

mumsnet 1970 - Should I leave my baby unattended in a pram outside the greengrocers for a few minutes?

P&T parking spaces don't bother me particularly, but when I am at a busy retail park, and there is a P&T space right outside then some young whippersnapper in their jazzy car goes and parks in it, it does annoy me slightly.

Just as it does when perfectly able people get on buses and sit in the seats for buggies/elderly and wheelchairs, why can't they walk just a few seats back??

Though they are botht he type of things I wouldn't likely mention unless it was happening to someone else.

I did think thatr just as i press4d posdt - doesn't make it sound v autrhentic does it?

yes tiredemma was going to say that. One word - ocado. or tesco direct or whatever if supermarket shopping stresses you so much or you have 12 kids and a coach to park

quite often at my waitrose cars zoom up into the disabled bays, the doors are flung open and out jump nimble 62 year olds who proceed to skip into the shop. And they have disabled badges in their cars - how do they wangle it?

It's probably not their badge .

Christ on a bike, I hope to hell they take away all the parent & child parking spaces, they're a pain in the arse anyway!

I just park at the end of the car park so I don't scratch anyone's car doors when getting the little people out. Simple.

Agree disabled places are essential and I don't think anyone disputes that. However, also think P&C spaces are useful and I always try and park in one if I can. Yes I could probably manage from the far end of the car park, squeezing out of the very narrow spaces they have, but carrying a very heavy (100th percentile) wriggly 16th month old across a carpark isn't much fun, when you're getting on a bit with a slightly dodgy back!

Also it's not just supermarkets, it's shopping centres too. In our local carparks the spaces are so tight that I have to take child and buggy out of the car and leave in front of other cars whilst I reverse my car into space - clearly not ideal. And the result is I rarely go out shopping as I can't abide the hassle with the parking - so it's the shops that lose out in the end. I do buy a fair amount on the internet, but only what I absolutely need - so no impulse buys. Good for me, but not so good for the shops' profits etc..

hatrick, they're not handy at one of the local supermarkets.

They're at the edge of the carpark near the recycling bins... I always smile 'cos they're almost always empty... somehow parents & babies need to park near the door.

In that case it's the council or the management of the shopping malls you need to direct your ire to re the width of carparking spaces. Getting out of the passenger door is not a good look....

The disabled spaces at my local tescos are in front of the cafe so people can watch disabled folk struggle to get out and into a wheelchair whilst they sup tea. And walk out for 10 yards from the shop to a 'ordinary' space.... .

I don't normally post on these threads - didn't realise what I was missing!

I don't think P&T parking is at all necessary and I am sure only those people who choose to display "princess/cheeky monkey on board" signs in their vehicles get so worked up about them ...

..oh, and those ladies who take their reborn dolls out to the supermarket of course