Parent Child Parking

Martin

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Bit of a rant but I need to get this off my chest as I am so annoyed but I know I am probably going to get some remarks about this but it is really getting to me!!!

Why do people with no children insist in parking in the parent child bays!!! Tonight in Sainsburys I was asking some miserable old man if he had kids and why he had parked in the parent child bay and he took it upon himself to get aggressive and in my face while my kids were in the car!!

I asked at Sainsburys who looks after it and because it is a council car they can't do anything about it! I have lost my sh!t at some chav in tesco the other month over the same thing and again Tesco won't do anything about it and the same goes for Asda!!

As a parent this is so frustrating especially when all the spaces get filled up and there are people who decide to park there and they have no kid's!!!!

Right rant over for now but surely I can't be the only one who feels this way and gets annoyed at this happening??
 

joshua

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Writing "this space is for parents with children only" in lippy on their widscreen will get the message across and be more than a little difficult to remove
 

Carole

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I am someone who generally likes to stick by the rules so I have total sympathy for you.

A particular bug bear of mine is those that park in a disabled space and then get out and actually run across the road. They have clearly borrowed someone else's disabled sticker.

It's really selfish and thoughtless.
 

Wormella

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It's weird, we barely ever use them - even with a child, car seat etc I still assume they're for other people
 

BigD

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Doesn't help when car park bays are so narrow that getting in and out of your car can be difficult without the door hitting the car parked next.
 

Withnail

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Doesn't help when car park bays are so narrow that getting in and out of your car can be difficult without the door hitting the car parked next.
Which is exactly why there are parking spaces for folks with littler folks in kiddie seats - they need to open their doors to the fullest extent to be able to extricate their kinder from them.

It is not really that difficult to imagine why wider spaces are, if not necessary, then at least preferable. Because it is easy to get out of a car, unless it isn't.

Try walking a mile in another man's shoes - at best you will have learned something, at worst you will at least have a pair of shoes, and he'll be a mile away so you have a pretty hefty head start on him.

That'll teach him to just give his shoes to any old geezer.
 

Floss

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Writing "this space is for parents with children only" in lippy on their widscreen will get the message across and be more than a little difficult to remove


Darn ! wish I had thought of that, I had someone park so close to me at an angle, right against the drivers door in Devon recently, that the only way into the car was to stand on the harbour wall (with a very big drop) and climb through the boot! They had a kiddie seat in the back so I didn't think to do anything at the time, I shall have to remember the lipstick thing!
 

PeterD

ST16 Represent.
My wife used to park in them, after much tellings off she stopped. Now with grandchild she is a bit more understanding of the logistics of removing a baby from a car.
 

Trumpet

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I admit to occasionally using the Asda ones on my early morning visit but I'm in and out in less than 10 minutes.

I note that these spaces are always very close to the supermarket entrances. Just a thought here if they were further away, say at the far corner away from the entrance it would give newer mothers with pushchairs a bit of exercise to help get their figures back after pregnancy and older children the much needed exercise a growing child needs.;)
 

markpa12003

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I despise people that use parent and children spaces that don't need them - some supermarkets state that they are parent and toddler spaces, so you don't get some smart arse that says they can park in the space because they've got a 40 year old child.

I wouldn't personally mind if the parent and child spaces were located further away from the entrance because this would stop the lazy, selfish people using them.

These spaces are needed because they allow me (and my) wife to get my child in and out of their car seat - that's a little more important than saving some lazy, selfish person a few minutes.
 

Gareth

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I agree if it is at night then there is no issue with other people parking in parent/ toddler as few would actually be in use at such times for the intended reasons.

with blue disabled badges, non disabled people can be nominated to use blue badges and park in disabled bays I.e. such as a carer. Of course the person the disabled blue badge is actually for i think also has to be the passenger in the car at the time.

third world problems eh
 

joshua

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I am someone who generally likes to stick by the rules so I have total sympathy for you.

A particular bug bear of mine is those that park in a disabled space and then get out and actually run across the road. They have clearly borrowed someone else's disabled sticker.

It's really selfish and thoughtless.

Not all disabilities are apparent to the casual observer
 

Carole

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Not all disabilities are apparent to the casual observer
I understand that but if someone can actually RUN then they probably don't really need a disabled badge.

A group of us were going out one night and the one that was driving said she would borrow her husbands disabled badge so that we could park in a disabled space. We were all collectively horrified and shocked that she could even think to suggest it and we all shouted Noooooooo.
She then realised that we were actually disgusted and said "I was only joking"

But she wasn't.
 

Gramaisc

Forum O. G.
There are people who believe that a blue badge can be used if the vehicle is being used for the badge-holder's benefit, shopping for them, etc.- I don't believe that that is the case - I suspect that the badge-holder has to be in the vehicle either when it arrives or when it leaves, or both - e.g., you can park there unaccompanied if you are picking them up.

I used to drive a Motability vehicle for a badge holder and was frequently surprised by the litheness of some users. I particularly remember one couple with a Mercedes who parked in the blue zone at Tesco, did all their shopping, packed it all away and walked off into town, occupying a blue spot that somebody less mobile might actually have needed.

There can be a strange compulsion to use the badge because it's there. At Tesco, there are often 'normal' spaces available much closer to the entrance than the furthest of the blue spaces, if they are the only blue ones empty, as was often the case...
 
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