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Parent and Child spaces.... is it just me?
Or does it really really really drive any one else mad, when you can't get a space and then whilst you're carrying your little one from one end of the car park to the other (just so you could get a space with no car next to it so you can get baby out) you see countless people getting back into their cars parked on the parent and child spaces alone - no child! I saw 5 people yesterday evening and ended up moaning at a guy yesterday who just said oh yeah sorry and carried on walking into the store! I complained to Tesco who just said sorry nothing we can do really as they can't legally prevent them. But i think if they can't do anything then don't bother having the spaces. If the spaces didn't exist, i wouldn't mind i don't think. AAARrrrggghh!
Rant over!
Rant over!
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OMG!! I completely agree with you. The same thing happened to me yesterday. I can never get the car door open enough to get Grace's car seat out and have to squeeze through a tiny gap. I saw a man getting into his car parked in a parent and child space, with no child, and told him what i thought lol !! It makes me so mad. :x
They should be giving people tickets who park in the spaces and if they don't why the hell have them in the first place, when we can't use them!!
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Downsey - i hadn't even thought about having more than 1 child, that must be a nightmare for you! How are you finding the age gap? I'm still not sure when to try for another, my ds is 6 months now.
The hardest thing for me is actually getting to where you are going from the car, and trying to get out safely. I can never get parent and children spaces at our shopping centre and have probs getting the pushchair out the car and getting them in. x
I think there should be pregnant / bump parking!! I parked on the other side of the car park one day as I thought it would still be fairly empty and I would have space to get back into my car. when I came out I was wedged right in (to the point they bent back my wing mirrors!!) I was in floods of tears as I couldnt get back into my car sat deserted in the car park for ages and then after about a half hour I thought about going into the store and have the guy paged over the intercom to kindly move his car so I could go home.
*as you can imagine I wasnt very popular with they guy either*
Well, I got absolutely drenched getting my 2 out of the car. When walking past the parent and child spaces there were 6 different cars parked with the drivers still in them - no children - waiting for the rain to stop.
I mentioned this to them in store and was told there was nothing could be done - even though they have signs to say that if you dont have one of those Tesco parent and child parking permits you can't park there without getting fined. What's the point of even having the signs, let alone the poxy permits, if they aren't enforced??
Purple sox, at the Asda in Mansfield there are mother and bump spaces as well as parent and child - I was very impressed!
what you seem to be forgetting, and as i have said many times on here, people choose to have children, disabled people dont have any choice about being disabled.
disabled drivers are actually entittled to park in a mother and baby space if there are no disabled spaces left.
and yes if people use a disabled space when there isnt any M&C spaces left when they dont have a disabled badge should be clamped! simple as. (and lets face it, lots of parents do that anyway, well they do round my area)
i dont agree with disabled drivers parking in a mother and baby space when there are disabled spaces avaliable. i know i never do!
/end of rant
what drives me mad as well is when disabled badge holders park in the mother and baby spaces when there r no disabled spaces appreciate they have their badges for a reason and need to be close to the entrance but if we parked in the disabled spaces as no mother and baby ones free would probably get clamped!!!
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me and dh always argue about disabled people parking in m&b spaces. I don't mind if there's no disabled spaces, my brother is in a wheelchair, he can't walk so has to use a disabled space to get the wheelchair to the side of the car, if you think it's hard getting a baby and carseat in, in a normal space think about getting into a wheelchair in a normal space it's impossible.
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I agree with Breighlin, they should put mother and baby further away from the entrance and make a hell of a lot more of them! 9 times out of 10 people who need the bigger spaces to get car seats and/or bumps out of the car have no problem walking the distance (SPD etc of course being a different matter) so if they just put them further away and had a trolley park there for baby trolleys people would stop abusing the facility and it could be used by people who actually need it!
TBH I've given up getting annoyed about M+B spaces, there are so many selfish knobs that I was spending all my life annoyed!
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I parked in M&B space a few weeks back when it was very wet and windy. I came out of the store to discover that an inconsiderate driver (not sure if they had kids or not) had been too lazy to return their trolley and drove off leaving it in the bay next to me - the wind had blown it into my car door which is now scratched and dented. I was fuming. Needless to say my baby heard me curse!
I have no issue with disabled people parking in the M&B spaces. I would not like their disability and am thankful that I can walk.