18-March-2010

Parent and child parking spaces

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My major gripe is when people without children park in the 'parent and child' parking spaces at the supermarket. How selfish is hat? The elderly and the disabled think its absolutely THEIR RIGHT to park in these spaces, but god forbid if I park in a disabled spot which quite rightly something I would not do. We all have to wait for a space.

People should try carrying a baby in a car seat following a cesarian section (major surgery!). Not only that but stretching over in the car and fitting the car seat properly, or getting the baby out is very difficult following child birth. This is very difficult in a normal parking spot, it is much easier in the wider parking spots. These spots are also closer to the trolley collection points. Trust me, you do not want to leave a baby for a second alone in the car whilst you return your trolley.

It's not just the people without children I find irritating. The thing that really annoys me the most are those people who sit and wait in their car (in a parent and child parking spot) with their brood of ten and think it is perfectly okay for the wife to nip out and get the shopping; meanwhile the husband and kids stay in the car and basically waste that space! It's ok we've got kids they're probably thinking! Well actually IT IS NOT, because you could just as easily park elsewhere and WAIT.

The parent and child parking spots are for the convenience of parents who are taking their children shopping with them!

Abuse of Tesco's Parent and Child Parking Scheme - online petition

By: Crossmama

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this if very true I get it every where I go shopping and I have seen many people park in them that dont have kids or there kids are like 12 and dont need the extra room I have had enough of it now

keighley 12-Mar-2010 19:36

Well I DO mind Parent & Child parking spaces Genuine nice guy ... and I am a nice person, and I am anything but anti-social or obnoxious.

By their very nature, parents and children are going to be young ... under the age of 50 ... and unless they are disabled, they are far, far more capable than I am to park in a normal car parking space, negotiate their baby out of his or her car seat and load him into his or her buggy. They do not require a special, extra wide parking space, they do require a special, extra wide parking space right outside the shop, in fact they do not require a special extra wide anything. They are young and able, if not fit, and can therefore cope more than adequately with the privilege of having given birth.

Nikki 06-Mar-2010 19:53

Absoloutly. I'm about to become a parent myself and I want to use these spaces that have been used for decades by other generations that are now complaining about it on here.

chris 06-Mar-2010 00:12

It's their carpark, their rules.

If you have a problem with such spaces being laid out then I pity you and your anti-social obnoxious nature.

Nice people don't mind the spaces and respect them,

Genuine nice guy 05-Mar-2010 16:45

If you can't walk from a regular parking stall to the door, how on earth are you going to walk the mall? I treat everybody as equals, but apparently, pregnant women are more equal than me. BTW, I'm about to be a hybrid car owner and I don't believe in courtesy parking for hybrid car either.

RiesenKalmar 28-Jan-2010 06:33

Ever the voice of reason Freddie! I actually entirely disagree with you about the existence of parent & child parking spaces, but your suggestion is at least a reasonable one.

Nikki 27-Jan-2010 21:15

Darren, you use these spaces for two reasons. One, they have wider access and two, they are near the shop. I'd be interested to see how many people would use them if they put them right across the far side of the car park!!!!

After all, it's not as if anyone that they are designed for are claiming to be physically impaired at all is it? Yes, let's keep these preferential spaces for parents, but let's put them out of the way so they don't annoy other users of the car park.

Freddie 26-Jan-2010 11:39

Nonsense !! If you cannot extract your child in a car seat out of your car without bashing the car next to it, Darren, then you are not half the person that I am. I managed to perform this extraordinarly difficult feat at the age of 33, with a bad back, back in the days when cars were nowhere near as easy for such manoeuvres as they are now ... WITHOUT EVER BANGING THE NEXT DOOR VEHICLE !! AND without an extra wide parking space.

Lordy Lordy, you youngsters, you want everything handed to you on a plate.

Just get a life for goodness sake ...

Nikki 25-Jan-2010 20:27

I love that you all complain about us, but let me tell you now...it would only take one of us to extract one child in a car seat that knocks our rear door on to your precious
Audi a3 and cause a mark or scratch and you would not be happy. These spaces are there for the convenience of the parent s and the consideration of other car owners. Stop being idiots and realise their value.

Darren Porter 18-Jan-2010 00:37

When I was a kid I had to walk to the bus stop with my mum to go shopping AND climb on and off the bus myself under my mum's watchful eye AND stand up if an adult needed the seat AND walk to and from the shops with her - no mollycoddling to and fro in a car for me! If you lot are fit enough to have kids and drive a car, and provided none of you are disabled in any way (I AM in favour of disabled parking spaces by the way!) why the hell shouldn't you have to walk across the car park the same as me! Lazy pack of soft pampered wimps the lot of you!

bodgefinder 17-Jan-2010 02:38

Hey you chose to have the child, you choose to take it with you.
I choose to take these parking spots.

Coll 12-Jan-2010 22:39

To be honest, if kids are that much of a handicap you need to park outside the door you shouldn't have had them in the first place.
Moreover maybe some of the waddling porkers would benefit from a walk from the far end of the car park.

ld50 07-Jan-2010 14:10

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