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old people and child spaces

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codswallop · 06/06/2003 12:07

please domt let me get old..
why are old people so rude when you remind them they are parking in kid spaces?

one old git just told me 2 not to have them then" as the wallops ran thru the rain.

If we were as rude s this we would get the "WW2 we fought for you" bah blah..

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Frenchgirl · 06/06/2003 12:52

'Keep your hair on' might also elicit a rather comical and panicky response from old wig-wearing men...

lou33 · 06/06/2003 13:01

Was anyone up late last week watching Sort it out man and Dan? They were confronting people doing annoying things such as this. Very funny, but omg the people parking in the spaces wrongly had no shame! Mostly they were parking in them because it was raining or so they didn't get their car scratched. Hilarious watching these two blokes running alongside them shouting about how they have forced disabled people and mums with young babies to struggle from further afield. Wish I could be there to watch them.

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codswallop · 06/06/2003 13:06

is there a link for this?

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Bossanova · 06/06/2003 14:48

And whose tax pays their feckin pension anyway?

Finbar · 06/06/2003 16:24

Today I left my huge trolley right up against the door of flash BMW (no baby seats) parked inthe Parent space next to mine- was desperately waiting forthe elderly dowager owner to complain so I could say - yes it IS pain when you can't get to your car isn't it?(hope I scratched her paint!)

abbysmum · 06/06/2003 16:33

No baby seats may just mean they have a sleeping baby in a first stage seat. No rubbish on the floor is a better sign.

happycat · 06/06/2003 16:43

I was very impresed when I went to Toys r us in Lakeside they clamp and fine people that park in the spaces without young children.The way to go I think.It mostly is old codgers that do it.I keep meaning to print up some tickets to put under there window wipers but can never think of anything witty.

Jaybee · 06/06/2003 17:19

Have to share this one - I have been growling to myself for two days about it. Bloody great 4x4 pulls up into a Mun&Child spot in local supermarket, lady jumps out peers into rear window of car then walks away towards the shop, I had parked in another non baby spot (dd is 6 and perfectly capable of walking) and walked down beside her car - I was about to shout "where's your baby then?" when I spotted it - asleep in it's car seat still in the car - she had left him in the car!! It was on Tuesday which was pretty hot - I could not believe it. I floated around the car park not sure what to do but then gave up and did my shopping thinking that she was probably just nipping in for one item and paying at the ciggy counter but no - there she was pootling around the fruit and veg seeminglu without a care in the world. It was really tempting to nick her car just to give her a fright!!

breeze · 06/06/2003 17:21

Jaybee, that is awful. Bad enough when it is dogs let alone children.
I have seen something similar and spend the rest of the day wishing I had said something about it.

Gizmo · 06/06/2003 22:25

Really, really not funny. I have seen dogs die when left in cars in the sun - people do not realise how hot they get. Afraid I always leave rude notes on windscreen to that effect when I see dogs in cars on hot days.

Babys (I presume) even more vulnerable to heat. OK if you're just nipping in for five minutes, I guess, but seriously stupid if it's longer.

badjelly · 09/06/2003 13:56

That's awful - can't believe someone would be that stupid!

Another one for the 'isn't it just so annoying' vibe - our multi story car park (the only decent parking in town) is 9 floors high, it has 2 spaces per floor PLUS an entire floor dedicated to disabled drivers (fair enuf) but how many for pram users? 4 in the entire place!!! And to make it even worse the disabled spaces are usually empty! why can't they make them disabled/pram users it would be so much bloody easier.

Thank you rant over!

whymummy · 09/06/2003 14:08

that`s bad jaybee,how could she???
i would have gone to customer services with her number plate and tell them to tell the owner of that car that it just been stolen over the tannoy,then i would hide and watch her run outside in a panick

M2T · 09/06/2003 14:11

Jaybee - that is totally disgusting behaviour on her part!!! I'm a nervous wreck if ds is out of my sight for a few seconds!! Even when he was small I'd imagine him choking or something horrible like that.

..... aside from that - how much experience do you have of nicking cars??

jac34 · 09/06/2003 14:23

On the subject of people leaving their kids in the car, a few years ago, outside Asda, DH and I spotted a car with two fairly young children in it (proberbly about 3 & 5). Not only had the owner left the engine running, but the keys in the ignition and the doors unlocked. The children were climbing around inside the car.
We waited by the car for about 10minutes and no one returned, so I went into the store and told customer services, who made an announcment over the tanoy, they had to repeat it a few times, before, the woman appeared a good while later, complaining that she had not had time to finish her shopping !!!!
Honestly, are people mad or what !!!

suedonim · 09/06/2003 15:28

Jac34, our neighbours left their children and some friend's children playing in their 4x4. They let off the hand brake and the car rolled down the hill, into another neighbour's brand new Volkswagen, causing thousands of pounds worth of damage. Magnanimously, they ignored the damage but were most concerned for the children and tore the parents off a strip. The car could easily have toppled over a 30ft steep drop, which the children may not have survived.

Jaybee · 09/06/2003 15:54

M2T - none at all but it made me so mad I was tempted to throw something through the window. I agree Gizmo - I have also witnessed a dog nearly die in a hot car - police smashed the window and rescued it.

Boe · 09/06/2003 17:38

Not a very witty response but looking seriously alarmed and informing them that they have left their child at home usually elicits at least a few blushes!!

My partner has just realised that they have mother & baby parking spaces - he seems far keener to take my daughter to Sainsbury's now. In chislehurst the car park is tiny and he reckons it is a sure fire way of getting a space.

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codswallop · 09/06/2003 18:30

Like the gag - will store it in "Other peoples gags folder"

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Queenie · 09/06/2003 18:36

Boe, dh did that with one guy who replied "Well I normally bring them with me"! He did however move his car. There was another instant where a mother was rowing with a elderly man about the spaces and he said "I fought in the war ... " I thought time to go!!

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codswallop · 09/06/2003 18:41

yawn. I once had a row in the pool changing rooms(I know) . Some friends and oiw ere laughing about how the pool was having a minutes silence for the Queen Mother sDeath..( I mean silent breast stroke?!!)

Some older woman interupted and started haprping on about the war. I mean it was not even to do with her. She also told me I knew nothing about the was (history teacher). and that they were hiding under tables as the bombs dropped.

My retort(of which I am quite proud to this day) was that "Ones thing is for sure - the Queen mOther wasnt under a table!

Honestly,, theroyal family....make my blood boil

Tsk really.

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CAM · 09/06/2003 21:26

That reminds me of an instance when I heard someone remonstrating with a man (no kids) who had parked in a parent and child space and his response was "Well, I do voluntary work, you know"

CathB · 10/06/2003 13:07

We once came out of the house to find a toddler asleep in a car parked a few doors up. No sign of any adults keeping an eye on her. We milled about trying to work out what to do, knock on doors, police etc when this woman steamed out and gave us an earful, suggetsing we might have woken her up!! Grr! I had just had dd1 and was swilling with mummy hormones so naturally conjured up multiple stolen car scenarios.

In our local Tesco apparently an empty car seat is sufficient to qualify you for a parent+child space... Never felt brave enough to take anyone on though!

GeorginaA · 10/06/2003 13:10

And to think, I feel the evilest mother in the world when I leave ds in the car, run full pelt down to the nearest ticket machine, pay, run full pelt back again.

Ds always looks at me out of breath as if I was completely nuts...

Lennie · 10/06/2003 13:21

I always want to ask people with no kids in kid parkings paces "where are your children then?@ but I'm worried they'll say something like they're just picking them up and then I would be really embarassed. It's bloody tempting some days.

I do tend to wind my window down and berate people for not looking when they're walking in car parks, especially those with children... and old fogeys... anyone really, it's very cathartic :D

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codswallop · 10/06/2003 13:23

but do you do so agressively/ Its the agression of oldies that gets myt goat

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