Child parkins spaces

[momcj]

Be honest do any of you, who dont have children with you park in these spaces? It really does my head in!

[Hopkirk]

I wouldn't dream of it.

I saw a young lad reversing out of one once, on his own in the car.
I was tempted to run up waving my arms and shouting 'Stop, you've forgotten your child!'

[ELVIS68]

Nope, although unless you specifically sit and watch people come and go then how do you know they are doing it?

[oscardoodles]

Only people too thick to realise the purpose of the spaces....or just thick:))

[Buenchico]

I'm so 'fixated' with rules that I don't even park on 'parent & child' or 'disabled' spaces when I go to use the cash machine while the store is closed! (A few years ago, I used the cash machine at the Ipswich Asda on Christmas Day. I still carefully parked in a 'normal' space and walked through the rain to the cash machine, rather than park in a 'special' space next to the cash maschine, even though mine was the only car on the entire car park!)

Chris

[momcj]

more like lazy! you know they are doing it when you see them arrive with no kids, or you are looking for a space and someone goes back to there car with no kid!! I see it alot. It all types too

[momcj]

sorry that was meant for oscar and elvis, not you chris

[annie0000]

I have, but only if I have been going late at night and there are loads of spaces - when it is dark and quiet, I feel safer parking closer to the store and most little kids will be in bed by then anyway. I don't use them during the day/early evening even when I have my kids with me now as they are past the age of buggies etc.

[kinell]

at tesco local to me these spaces are marked parent and child

i always park in one of these wide spaces near to the entrance when i take my mother shopping

[Hopkirk]

'kinell kinell, the child is supposed to be the passenger, not the driver!

[bednobs]

personally i don't understand why they are near the shop. Children can either generally walk OR are in a pushchair, so why do they need to be closer? If they were further away, they could still be extra big so you could get prams in and out AND they wouldn't be as attractive for knobbers to park in, thus irating the likes of momcj. They could be put so that you didnt have to cross lanes of moving cars to get to the shop = surely it's not beyond car park planners?
Plus kids are such porkers these days, it'll doo them good to walk a few steps!

In my local sainsbury's the P+C parking is closer and more level than the disabled parking - i don't understand that

[4getmenot]

No never would

[4getmenot]

I have to admit I park in disabled when I get a chinese on a weekend, as only 3 spaces outside and they are all disabled, everybody parks in them

[razza]

I do occasionally,when the disabled parking bays are full,I have to access with a wheelchair for the wife.Its not only child parking spaces that get this problem,its also disabled parking spaces.

[numnum]

bedknobs - i think those spaces are just for kids up to the age of 5 then over 5 you need to park in normal spaces and walk

i do park in them as i have 2 under 2's.. i've heard a lot of people moaning about the child spaces but the way i look at it. i have to open the car door to its widest to get the baby seat out and if i was to park in the normal spaces theres a huge chance that the wind will catch the door as i carefully try to get the car seat out or even if i squeeze in a small space there is also a chance and i don't want the door to bash into another car

i find the extra space great for easily getting them in and out the car and once they are both walking about un aided (even if under 5) i'd park in a normal space so it would hopefully allow for people that do have to take the car seat out buggies etc. i tend to put them straight into a trolley.

[DEN53]

I tried to park in one once in Tesco - I have a disabled badge for my Mum - a very annoyed mother starting shouting at me through my car window - I explained that the disabled spaces were all full, but she was having none of it, shouting about her having a small child, etc etc. I moved my car to an ordinary space, as my Mum was getting quite upset.

When we came out of Tesco - this woman had gone into the store on her own and left her mother in the car with her 'not so small' child. I was soo angry.

[RATTER15]

It can be amusing sometime when we use a disabled space at the supermarket, because my dear Carakeel doesn't actually look like she is disabled we sometimes will have people who want to give a load of abuse until she produces her badge, even then they sometimes wont accept that she needs a disabled space.

Some people thing you need both legs missing to be disabled I'm sure.

[cazzz1975]

yes agree there ratter, in this world you are only seen to be disabled if you have a wheelchair.

personally I agree with bednobs, if the mother and parking bays were moved away from the front of the store they would be less open for abuse. there is no reason why they have to be so close as the main point of having the mother and baby spaces is the extra room at the sides, not the proximity of the shop to carpark.

[looby1914]

I would never park in any of the bays that were for disabled etc unless i had the right person with me at time to do so.. Blooming annoys me when you see these young lads parking in the disabled bays when they run across to the store perfectly able bodied etc

[mollykins]

What's the point in them?

[cazzz1975]

they are there to provide the extra space needed to get a baby out of a carseat which requires the car door to be opened fully, the extra room is also there to use a buggy or trolley at the side of the car which you wouldnt be able to do in a normal parking space.