Tesco - Parent/Child + disabled car spaces

Morglin

asbestos2008 wrote: »

I have 2 young children one of whom is disabled. I need the extra space at the side of a car to get them out of their car seats.
Had an slight discussion with a young single man who thought it was OK to park in one of the M&C spaces, most of them were filled with disabled and cars with no child seats, he was just leaving his car to enter the store when i pulled up. I asked him in a nice manner to find a non reserved spot, he told me not so nicely he could park where he wanted! I waited till he went into the store and i parked over the back of his car so he couldnt go anywhere.
His face at customer services was a picture when he came back in to ask the person who had blocked him in to please move.

Told him a) I could park where i liked
b)there was no way i could leave the kids in the trolley unattended while i move the car
c) no way on this planet could i remove an autistic child from trolley, leave store move car, re enter store.

Luckily for him i didnt need that much, only held him up 20 min

Pathetic, probably! But places are there for a purpose, those of you that managed without "well done" bet those of you who are grandparents use them!!

Disabled places - they are there for a reason, dont abuse them. My son has a blue badge, if he is in his disability stroller them i dont use them, rather use mother & baby, if he is walking, i do use them for his safety incase he runs over the car park!

Good for you - if they abuse a bay, then they deserve to get blocked in (providing the blocking is not affecting any other traffic that needs to get through).:T

I do the same thing - and make them wait until I have finished shopping before I move the car.

Lin

BFG_2

Two wrongs don't make a right.

What a very selfish attitude, and a terrible example to set for your children.

This person could have a relative at home who dies because you kept them blocked into the space and they didn't get home in time with the chicken soup.

How could you live with yourself if this were to happen?

What gives you the right to be judge, jury and executioner for someone who is in a parking bay that you want to use.

I think it's disgraceful and you 'block them in' vigilantes should all be ashamed of yourselves.

poet123

I think that under normal circumstances it is a petty act, but if the poster did ask the chap politely to move, and he could see her child was disabled and needed the wider space (although to be fair, the disability is not such that the wider space requirement is immediately obvious, my niece is autistic and I can get her in and out of the car in any space) and he was rude, then he had it coming. Who amongst us does not have it in us to be petty when the situation irks us?

mustrum_ridcully

Well done asbestos2008!

Whilst I agree it was petty, sometimes you have to deal with all the $#!& who live amongst us in this manner. If they just got a fine they'd come here crying about how unfair it is that they got fined and someone would come along and say "there there you don't actually have to pay the fine". To be honest they probably know that the fine cannot be enforced so don't give a monkey's about parking in PCD parking spaces.

So chances are blocking this gormster in was probably the only thing that might actually stop him from doing it again.

BFG_2

mustrum_ridcully wrote: »

So chances are blocking this gormster in was probably the only thing that might actually stop him from doing it again.

No it won't.

In fact it's much more likely that the person will note your car reg, then wait in the car park, follow you home, note your address and then come back in the middle of the night and kill you and your family as you sleep in your beds.

So don't do it.

poet123

Sadly, that is a very real possibility. You only have to look at the road rage murders to know there are some very unhinged people out there.

biscit

Many people wouldn't be petty. However I might.

There is a difference between pettiness and fastidiousness. A traffic warden (or whatever your local council call them) giving someone a ticket for being five minutes over in a P&D carpark is not petty, but many people would rant on when they came back late and got a ticket, not acknowledging it was their own behavior that caused their misfortune.

I'm not saying I'm not immune to the "it was only five minutes" attitude, but I am saying that when we take it, we are being obnoxious and rude. The traffic warden is not being unreasonable, and it is appaling behaviour to claim otherwise.


Before parent and child spaces were invented I used to chuckle at the traffic jams that would occur in some supermarket carparks, and I'm talking carparks which while large looking, that weren't much bigger than the store itself. I would just drive into the first clear space I came to, pick up a trolly at the first trolly park I came to and get on with my shopping, well before the person who entered the carpark just before me who spent ages looking for the closest space to the store.

I wouldn't drive to a shop ten-fiften minutes walk away if I wanted fewer items than I could carry.

olias

Morglin wrote: »

Good for you - if they abuse a bay, then they deserve to get blocked in (providing the blocking is not affecting any other traffic that needs to get through).:T

I do the same thing - and make them wait until I have finished shopping before I move the car.

Lin

You must be so proud of your achievements

Olias

biscit

olias wrote: »

You must be so proud of your achievements

Olias

I agree. 1.001 wrongs don't make a right. Or two wrongs for obnoixous people with no sense of proportion.

sinderella_2

poet123 wrote: »

I think that under normal circumstances it is a petty act, but if the poster did ask the chap politely to move, and he could see her child was disabled and needed the wider space (although to be fair, the disability is not such that the wider space requirement is immediately obvious, my niece is autistic and I can get her in and out of the car in any space) and he was rude, then he had it coming. Who amongst us does not have it in us to be petty when the situation irks us?

I totally agree with the last sentiment, poet, and funny how it's often issues of driving and parking that arouse this irk in us! Just wanted to point out, though, that autism is on a huge continuum from extremely mild to extremely severe and there may be a huge difference between your niece and the child in question. Possibly your niece doesn't have a disabled badge that the poster mentioned as well?