Tesco - Parent/Child + disabled car spaces

Jez_Wolf

As I understand it, on private land - Disabled bays and Parent & Child spaces have no legal standing.

If anyone can show me otherwise, I would like to hear it - fully referenced of course.

The DVLA arguement is a smokescreen - they are pimps who sell registered keeper details to anyone prepared to pay £2.50. These PPC chancers then try to get £50+ from the cars registered keeper.

It becomes a %game. They hope that people will fall for the scam, and pay up.

The fact that that the registered keeper might not have been the driver, is beyond their understanding.

The PPC's then send more and more hysterical letters to the keeper.

It is a scam. Spread the word.

emmell

They should make spaces bigger for everyone. To park in some of the spaces you have to be a contortionist to get out of the door. I would rather park far away from other cars than risk having my car scratched. What annoys me most is seeing people try to squeeze trolleys between parked cars.
ML.

Jez_Wolf

el_gringo wrote: »

I can't think of anything that rhymes with tugboat :rolleyes::D

Try Anchor

RobertoMoir

elf06 wrote: »

KERNEWEK - totally agree !!!

ROBERTOMOIR - Not true i am afraid - our carpark fines get issued straight from DVLA

DVLA don't issue fines at all do they? Besides maybe road tax?
The council might have an issuing controlling a supermarket carpark and then you'd have to take notice.
The private companies that tend to operate carparks love to put all kinds of official sounding stuff on their tickets to hide the fact the tickets aren't tickets.

(I should add at this point that I certainly don't advocate parking badly. I think people who park in disabled spaces without a disability ought to have their legs cut off and a lot of the people who complain about getting hassle for parking in the wrong place probably should have just parked properly)

vikingaero

kev_min wrote: »

I often wonder how we managed before these bonus wide parking slots were invented, probably as a marketing ploy to attract mums & sprogs, but it never stopped me taking my 2 to the shops.

with my 'equality' head on, why should parents with sprogs be treated, or expect, any different treatment in car pars anyway?

now going to find my umbrella to protect me from the downpour of abuse that is bound to follow

In my day, my dad would perform an emergency stop and hold his arm out to stop me from hitting the dash. :eek: If I felt tired it was acceptable to lie down on the parcel shelf. :eek: Fast forward to 2009 and if I were killed because my dad didn't strap me in, then he would quite rightly be vilified as an evil parent.

advent1122

This old chestnut crops up from time to time.
I have yet to see a totally full Tesco car park, so if you want to get junior out of the car with lots of space either side, then park on the other side of the car park where there are plenty of spaces.
I guarantee that if the mother and baby ( or whatever they are called ) spaces were at the far end of the car park then nobody would use them.
So it is just an excuse to say you need extra space.
You don't as there are plenty of spaces, but you are just as lazy as the rest of us and can't be a55ed to walk 100 yards to the entrance.
As for returning the trolley, again lots of empty trolley bays at the far end of the car park, next to the empty spaces.

poet123

No need whatsoever for parent and child spaces, having a child does not render you incapable of walking.

NotQuiteNorbert

Jez_Wolf wrote: »

Try Anchor

But that doesn't rhyme with tugboat...:D

vikingaero

poet123 wrote: »

No need whatsoever for parent and child spaces, having a child does not render you incapable of walking.

It's not about walking. If you park up in a P&C space, you normally have the relevant trollies nearby. So you grab a trolley, place it next to the car, load up with Little Johnnie, then pop around the other side and grab Little Daisy.

The alternative is that you unbuckle Johnnie, try and hold onto him whilst he's trying to escape into the traffic, try and unbuckle Daisy whilst trying to hold Johnnie against the car with your leg.

ever_the_optimist_2

Okay .. this is for all you people who complain about getting little dents in your car doors when they are parked in car parks ... THAT'S what parent and child spaces are for - have you ever tried getting a child seat out of the back of a car? Well you aren't going to manage it with barely a foot of space that you get in most car parks. Similarly if you have to lean into the back of the car to buckle / unbuckle your childs seat belt you need room to lean in and stick your bum out !

Personally I think there should also be 'pregnant lady' spaces too ... I remember having to pull back out of a narrow space after I couldn't open the door wide enough to get my bump out !

So .. please stop complaining and think of it as a way to protect your paintwork