Tesco - Parent/Child + disabled car spaces

dizziblonde

Our local (well semi-local - one's nearer but more annoying to get to and I can do an in and out raid on the further away one as I know the layout) Asda has the disabled bays right next to the door, P+C ones further away... our local Tesco has the P+C ones right next to the door and the disabled ones quite a bit further away which really does aggravate me a lot.

And in response to previous comments - I'm female, I'm actively trying to concieve but if it ever does happen (in the middle of various delightful fertility investigations - and there are no "I've got a lukewarm pot of dying sperm and need to get it in to be counted ASAP" spaces incidentally) - the responsibility for bringing up that child is mine and my partners - not the rest of the world, and I don't expect concessions, special parking spaces, a round of applause for what is essentially a matter of biological luck etc etc.

And before I'm accused of coveting a space near the door of the store - I park quite far away as I've got a slightly large car (it's an estate) and I go for the parking spaces at the far end of the carpark where it's quiet - and near the exit door - which seems much more logical for me - longer walk with an empty trolley and short walk with a full one!

And yep, as a childless person - I AM made to feel like a second class citizen in this country.

bluejake

I don't pay any attention to Parent and Child spaces I just park where I want. It makes me laugh when I here the whine of these parents who think they are special and deserving of special parking spaces. Oh poor little special johnny can't walk across the car park when it is raining. Boo Hoo.

My Mother had five children and no car but still managed to do the shopping. These middle class parents complaining how terrible it is when there are no special parking spaces for their people carriers should try going shopping on the bus on their own with their special children. Many mothers still do this today. And then carry their shopping home. And you no what? Nothing happens. The children don't drop dead because they have to walk with their little legs. The rain doesn't kill them. They are not exposed to terrible danger. In fact it probably does them good.

It is amazing when I here: 'how can a child walk across a car park without being run over?' I live opposite a school I see the red faced podgy little special jonnys being ferried to school and back. I used to walk to school and back which was a five mile round trip and the exercise did me good. And I walked across car parks(shock horror) and crossed roads and was never killed.

Parent and child are purely a marketing tool. Those accusing people of being lazy for parking in them are simply lazy themselves and want special treatment. They wont get it from me.

minnie123

bluejake wrote: »

I don't pay any attention to Parent and Child spaces I just park where I want. It makes me laugh when I here the whine of these parents who think they are special and deserving of special parking spaces. Oh poor little special johnny can't walk across the car park when it is raining. Boo Hoo.

My Mother had five children and no car but still managed to do the shopping. These middle class parents complaining how terrible it is when there are no special parking spaces for their people carriers should try going shopping on the bus on their own with their special children. Many mothers still do this today. And then carry their shopping home. And you no what? Nothing happens. The children don't drop dead because they have to walk with their little legs. The rain doesn't kill them. They are not exposed to terrible danger. In fact it probably does them good.

It is amazing when I here: 'how can a child walk across a car park without being run over?' I live opposite a school I see the red faced podgy little special jonnys being ferried to school and back. I used to walk to school and back which was a five mile round trip and the exercise did me good. And I walked across car parks(shock horror) and crossed roads and was never killed.

Parent and child are purely a marketing tool. Those accusing people of being lazy for parking in them are simply lazy themselves and want special treatment. They wont get it from me.

Thats a stupid attitude - I have a baby and I don't whinge about parking but yes it is nice to be able to park where there is space to get the baby out safely. Personally for me it's not to do with the spaces being closer to the store because at my local stores they are not closer they just have extra space to the sides. Why park there just to be an a**hole - doesn't that make you worse than the people that whinge?

Spartacus_Mills

uktyler wrote: »

No the OP of this thread started this about people who abuse P&C spaces, not the supermarkets providing them.

Both issues are wrapped up together.

uktyler wrote: »

The supermarkets that run the car parks want these spaces to be reserved for parents and children, was because it is not illegal to park in these spaces does not mean it is right to park in these spaces.

It does not make it wrong either.

Jaffa.

Yeah end of the day it's a business strategy.

Watto1990

bluejake wrote: »

I don't pay any attention to Parent and Child spaces I just park where I want. It makes me laugh when I here the whine of these parents who think they are special and deserving of special parking spaces. Oh poor little special johnny can't walk across the car park when it is raining. Boo Hoo.

My Mother had five children and no car but still managed to do the shopping. These middle class parents complaining how terrible it is when there are no special parking spaces for their people carriers should try going shopping on the bus on their own with their special children. Many mothers still do this today. And then carry their shopping home. And you no what? Nothing happens. The children don't drop dead because they have to walk with their little legs. The rain doesn't kill them. They are not exposed to terrible danger. In fact it probably does them good.

It is amazing when I here: 'how can a child walk across a car park without being run over?' I live opposite a school I see the red faced podgy little special jonnys being ferried to school and back. I used to walk to school and back which was a five mile round trip and the exercise did me good. And I walked across car parks(shock horror) and crossed roads and was never killed.

Parent and child are purely a marketing tool. Those accusing people of being lazy for parking in them are simply lazy themselves and want special treatment. They wont get it from me.

Never has a clamping been so thoroughly needed.

sarahg1969

Watto1990 wrote: »

Never has a clamping been so thoroughly needed.

He says he ignores them, not that he parks in them.

notafan

kernewek wrote: »

You may say my wife sounds like a busy body, but you sound like a neanderthal idiot. I didn't go because I was at work, earning. It is people like you who are the scum of the earth and should frankly take a nose dive off of the nearest cliff.

Lol apparrently thinking lazy expecting busy bodies make me have the same views as the BNP - are you for real lol i think you should check out their policies.

And like i say if she needed help you should have gone after work with her.

Also you may have missed this whilst 'working...earning' but Neanderthal's are extinct.

Turns out not just your wife that's the busy body.

If you still cant cope without a parent child parking spot then i suggest you have the child adopted because many other needy people could do a better job, and the child will probably be thankful not having you as parents :j

minnie123

sarahg1969 wrote: »

He says he ignores them, not that he parks in them.

Actually he said he pays no attention and parks where he likes - I read that as meaning if a P&C space is free he will park there if he wants to. If this is not what he meant and he doesn't park in them then I will stand corrected.

notafan

kernewek wrote: »

There is also a lot of focus on the needs of the parent. What about the needs of the child?

The needs of your child are to be met by you the parent.

The child has no real need to visit a supermarket in the first place.

Additionally I've never seen a baby bigger then a carrier bag of shopping and never had any bother stuff bags on the seats front or back.

Just because its easier does not mean its automatic. If people choose to use them or 'abuse' them (said very loosely) as you state its probably because they too don't see why its such a big deal for such spaces.

People are more resistant when you go on about how needed these are for you or how difficult it is for you. Fact is your taking what should be a simple action and making it into a huge deal by making out you can't manage without this.