Parent and baby parking spaces

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• Twin1 Tasha

  Oct 25, 2007 9:25AM

  Ohh this is our pet hate too! Gillans been known to shout at people as they get out of their car in the parent spaces with a complete lack of a child!!

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• DawnG

  Oct 25, 2007 9:36AM

  Don't get me started on this subject.
  I don't know about you but the supermarkets near me only have 10 parent and child spaces, as most of their shoppers will be parents with young children they really should have more!!!

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• simone

  Oct 25, 2007 10:06AM

  Are local Tesco only has a few space too and it really annoys me, i have been known to park in two normal spaces so that i can get Jessica back in the car.
  I also used parent and child spaces when i was heavily pregnant as i was worried someone would park to close and i wouldn't beable to squeeze back in.

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• Zoe

  Oct 25, 2007 10:28AM

  Well, where do i begin?
  
  The people in sports cars think that by parking in the bays nobody will scratch the car....if they are that bothered they shouldn't go out in it at all!!
  
  Most people with a disabled badge think it's a pass to park where ever they like regardless of the highway code, etc.
  
  And what really annoys me, almost as much as childless couples, are people who use the spaces with older children, no baby carrier, no screaming toddler to try and strap in. They should know better as they've been there!
  
  I understand why you used the spaces when you were heavily pregnant Simone, in fact we have a supermarket not too far away which has spaces specifically for expectant mums which i think is great.
  
  I think that's enough said!

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• Caroline

  Oct 25, 2007 10:52AM

  So its not just me then!!!!
  I took Bronwyn out of the car seat as I was concerned that I wouldn't get the car seat back in. I am 5ft 3 and drive a Zafira (higher seats han most cars), my Mamas & Papas car seat has a base (extra height) so I have enough trouble lifting the carseat plus heavy baby into the car, without having to worry about bashing the idiot next to me! Although God knows why I worry as 2 idiots have scratched my brand new shiny car!!! And why, even though people can see the baby seat do they still park too close!!!!!!

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• Zoe

  Oct 25, 2007 10:56AM

  Caroline I can garentee you that if we park the furthest away from the supermarket, with no car anywhere near us when we come out we are surrounded!!

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• simone

  Oct 25, 2007 10:56AM

  And the baby sign stuck to the back of the car!!!!!!!!!!

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• Andrea1972

  Oct 25, 2007 2:43PM

  i always struggle to find a space. The other week i sent my husband in to get a couple of things so i sat in the car with my daughter who was fast asleep. I counted 7 cars that parked in parenting spaces even though they had no kids. It so ennoys me

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• Caroline

  Oct 25, 2007 8:20PM

  On a more positive note, I was trying to get into a building up 3 steps yesterday and a guy put his fag down and helped me lift the pram up the steps and I hadn't even asked. I was waiting for my mates brother to do it! How cool was that!
  
  It restored my faith in humans!

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• Nicolette

  Oct 25, 2007 9:04PM

  I know excatly what you mean about the parent and child spaces. I get so angry when people who don't have children use them. I've confronted two people at different supermarkets about it and actually both moved. I was in the safety of my car both times, I wouldn't do it on foot! I listened to a 'debate' on LBC about this topic not long ago and mothers (always mums and not dads...) were slated for wanting to be closer to the doors. It isn't that at all, we just need space to get the seat it! There are none at my local shopping mall, only disabled spaces and I tend to park some way from the doors where the spaces are less popular and park across two. I have a large vehicle so it looks as if I can't drive, but better that than the incident where the people next to me were so close I couldn't open the doors, had to leave my son in his buggy in the carpark, enter my car via a sliding back door, climb over to the driver's side, back out and leave the car in the middle of the aisle, blocking other traffic to get my son in the car. And don't get me started on disabled drivers. I live in a road with controlled parking and it is amazing how many can't walk but do DIY and visit the DIY shop nearby, and how many disabled people use the tube, judging by the astonishing number of cars with badges that appeared the day of the last tube strike...

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