Tesco - Parent/Child + disabled car spaces

sinderella_2

olias wrote: »

So are you advocating direct vigilante action by customers when somene feels affronted at anothers failure to follow a supermarkets rule?

My comments were not snide, but sarcastic. And yes I feel every right to make them when anyone (disabled or not) advocates a petty tit for tat approach to someone in order to 'get ones own back' or 'teach someone a lesson'. Very school playgroundish I'm sure.

Olias

Am I advocating it? No. I'm saying I understand it as a reaction. I don't feel the need to belittle somebody with sarcasm, and assume that I am holier.
The logic goes thus: someone has the 'right' to abuse parking rules. So the next person has the 'right' to take direct action. So you have the 'right' to use sarcasm to belittle the person who took direct action when provoked. We're back to the basic argument that if these spaces weren't abused we could all go home and the continuing debate becomes mercifully pointless.:D

melly_g

This is a real bug bear of mine too.
There are never enough parent and baby spaces and then they are abused. I spoke to tesco customer service too and they said they wouldn't do anything about it. I'm sick of selfish people using the spaces even when there are loads of other spaces. I have said something to people before but the type of people who do this don't care anyway and would probably attack you.

kirstenc

Tesco DO fine customers who abuse parent and child and disabled bays in loads of its stores. Again it is private land and therefore not a legality but those rulaes are about to change in Scotland if my sources are correct lol

I have been told that there will be a new law making the enforcement of disabled bays a legal thing. perhaps the PandC ones will follow?

I odnt drive so have never been directly affected but I just thought that I would mention the above points!:D

DaisyClaire

I can't be bothered to read the whole thread...but my two penneth is about to follow!

I have kids (under five)

I find the P&C spaces really helpful; my kids are safer, they don't have to cross a busy carpark, the spaces allow me to get the doors of my car open wide.

When I can't park in one - I park in a disabled space. If I can't park in a disabled spot, then I park where I can. Normally on the end of a row so you can easily get in one side of the car.

If I were going to the store after say, 8pm, especially if it were dark and I was alone, I would use a P&C space for the safety element and would not worry if others had done the same. Actually I would not care a jot if anyone able bodied, disabled, childless etc had parked in a P&C slot when most small children are in bed and is much more unlikely to be in a supermarket.

When the carpark is full....I go home and shop online!

LilacPixie

I am a parent and the P&C spaces are great. trying to get an infant carrier in or out a car in a normal space is next to impossible if you have a car next to you. The P&C spaces are abused because they are close to the door I do think the solution would be to move them further away from the door. I use them because i needthe extra space to open the car door and would use them whereever they were situated.


Oh anda bit about disabled spaces. I have a disability that may not be obvious as a result I have a blue badge. I sometimes park in a disabled space if i am feeling particulalry ill or weak as I am more than entitled to do but the amount of snide and sarcastic comments i have received whendoing this is unbelievable.

DCFC79

I dont have any kids but i do agree that P&C spaces are for parents with children, if it was down to me and i worked at a supermarket i would make sure only parents with children park in the spaces,

veggyboy

DaisyClaire wrote: »

I have kids (under five)


When I can't park in one - I park in a disabled space.

Thats a bit selfish isn't it, I take you can walk ? A disabled person may not be able too yet you have just used their space

pretzelnut

We use the P&C spaces as they are wider and much easier to get a newborn baby out of the car still in the car seat without running the risk of scratching or dinting the car next to us. And the same for us - we wouldnt want our car door dinting by the car next to us if there trying to get a car seat in / out.

Yes its handy that they are usually right next to the entrance but we would still use them if they were at the far end of the car park. If we park in town there are NO P&C spaces so we usually choose a car park that is a bit quieter - although further away as we know we can park the car and leave a few empty spaces either side. Although we have come back to the car to find someone has parked right next to us but that isnt a problem as we just reverse the car back far enough to open the door fully and put the car seat in safely as the car park is extremely quiet, but we wouldnt be able to do this in the supermarket car park as a few people tend to drive round them like nutters (total car park rage where we live).

However when i had just had my son we did park in a P&C space and removed his car seat with him in it and went shopping when we returned there was a snotty handwritten letter on the windscreen from another shopper saying how selfish i was being using a P&C space when i obviously didnt have a child. She must have assumed as there was no car seat i had no child. So i can see how it is hard for most car parks to police them. I think tesco issue P&C parking permits when you join the baby club.

I have no experience of disabled bays but my nan is disabled (she has 1 false leg) she has no problems getting parked as people can ''see'' her disability and dont question it but some of her friends who have less obvious disabilities are always questioned if they have a right to use that space.

I only get annoyed when non child carriers use the P&C spaces cos they cant be bothered to park a car properly, either because they are too lazy or just cant be bothered to learn how to do it.

LittleCharlie

Certainly in my tesco you can always park on the end of a row of spaces where you can have as much space as you like... Maybe they should just designate all the end spaces as P&C spaces?

Oh no wait, parents won't make their fat kids walk across the car park thereby adding to the national childhood obesity problem!

I was never sat in a trolly as a kid, I was carried until I could walk. When I could walk, I was expected to do so. I have a friend who has a three year old daughter who walks over a mile every morning with daddy as he walks to work as an outdoors instructor before mum picks her up and takes her off to nursery...

mrcol1000

DaisyClaire wrote: »

When I can't park in one - I park in a disabled space.

So your one of the selfelsh people stopping geuninely disabled people from parking in their spots. Your also be the one jumping up and down in rage when you get fined for doing it without a blue badge. It is just typical of the me me me and screw everyone else world that we live in.