Tesco - Parent/Child + disabled car spaces

MissShal

Another parent here who would rather the P&C spaces were further away from the store (could do with the exercise if nothing else lol). I can manage perfectly fine without them, but I'll use one if there's one free.

I personally think it's rude to park where you shouldn't. I don't care whether it's legally enforceable or not, if there was a space for men who were shopping with their poodles I just wouldn't park there, it's the way I was brought up. And I wouldn't get all stroppy because someone else was "entitled" to a space and I wasn't, life's too short.

People parking in disabled spaces when they don't have a blue badge is obviously the worst, that's just disrespectful. And when I hear parents say that they parked in a disabled bay because there weren't and P&C spaces left, that just makes me mad. Like others have said, having kids isn't a disability so don't do it! :mad:

woohoo_postingid

My only annoyance is the sheer number of disabled parking spaces. There are just sooo many of them.

By all means I reckon they should have disabled spaces near the store but they should also have disabled "Wheelchair" spaces further away - after all it's not as though they have to walk and carry their shopping is it

poet123

Have you ever tried to push a manual wheelchair atttached to a supermarket trolley any distance? After going round the store I would imagine that the person pushing has had more than enough.

Morganna_2

You can tell it is mainly men responding to this in a derogatory manner :rolleyes:

You can use Parent and Child spaces if you are pregnant - if you join Tesco Baby Club, they give you a special badge to put in your windscreen which enables you to park in the spaces.

If you are 40 weeks pregnant with SPD, you will appreciate that the spaces are close to the doors...

If you have had a c-section, you will appreciate the spaces being closer to the doors...

I actually enjoy doing the food shopping and would not ever do it online after my experiences of being delivered rotten vegetables and sub-standard food. And just because I was pregnant or recovering from major surgery didn't mean I should be stuck in the house 24/7.

It is impossible to get a babyseat out in a normal space and even more impossible to get a buggy there to put baby in, let alone get the buggy in between the cars to get to the store.

I have confronted a few people parking in Parent and Child spaces when they have no children. One lady in a large 4x4 said that she shopped there every day, so was entitled to park there. Another man gave me so much abuse the store called the police and wouldn't let him in to purchase anything. Another store (ASDA) fined the man on his own £60 for mis-using their spaces. Complain to the store, many of them will make the driver remove the car.

Thankfully I have just been given a blue badge because of a disibility so if the losers are parking in the P&C spaces I can use a disabled if I need to.

Oh and I drive a large 4x4 because I live in the back of beyond and have three large dogs and a horse, but I would never dream of parking in a P&C space if I had no child.

scrimping_student

Jaffa. wrote: »

And what annoys me is that people say that, then forget that they have to go around the shop anyway. You don't stop as soon as you get to the shop door y'know :rolleyes:

So why should they have to walk any further

poet123

Morganna wrote: »

You can tell it is mainly men responding to this in a derogatory manner :rolleyes:

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I am a female driver with 4 children, and I really dont see the need for P&C spaces.

sarahg1969

"I am a female driver with 4 children, and I really dont see the need for P&C spaces. "

Snap!

"Another store (ASDA) fined the man on his own £60 for mis-using their spaces. "

No. They didn't.

DianneB

My son and DIL shout "nice baby!" at people who do this, doesn't make a jot of difference but makes them feel better!! I always park in P&C spaces when I have DGS on board as being able to open the door freely makes such a difference.

Morganna_2

"Another store (ASDA) fined the man on his own £60 for mis-using their spaces. "

No. They didn't.

How pedantic :rolleyes:

I sincerely apologise. Whichever company owns the ASDA carpark fined the man. Although it was the ASDA car park attendant who wrote the ticket out, so that is ASDA as far as I am concerned

angle

There was a story in the Scottish Sun today (not my usual choice of newspaper) about a heavily pregnant woman being fined £70 for parking in the P&C bay at a shopping centre. She was told that parking rules apply to everyone.
It was the parking firm APCOA that imposed the fine.

I think this thread has gone a little of topic - in my opinion if these parking spaces exist then they should only be used by parents with children. This shouldn't be a debate about whether they are actually necessary. I would never dream of using them as I don't have children, just as I wouldn't dream of using disabled places.
The man who barged into the space while the OP was waiting to park there was wrong for 2 reasons:
1. There was someone waiting, so he was just plain rude. It would be the same if the OP had been waiting for a 'normal' parking space.
2. He didn't have children with him so the parking space wasn't for him.

I was rather unpressed when I went to Tesco the other day to find some moron parking on the double yellow lines right outside the front of the store. Sheer laziness and selfishness. I really wished that I could have fined him.