Asda....parking Fine..

Rachie_B

before_hollywood wrote:

a large car? for 2 small kids, now i am starting to wonder.

my car is the same size as a focus (its a hatchback) and it can accomodate my dad who is nearly 6 feet tall on one of the back seats and still have loads of room for our dog (a labrador) on the rest of the back seat (and she is a pain to have in the car lol).

my personal fave was when someone said they had a certain type of huge car because they had kids, my car was smaller and had plenty of room for 5 adults (including the driver).

and don't get me started on 'baby on board' things

i don't understand why people have to have these massive mpv things, they look like vans :eek:

and are driven completely stupidly

you mean 7 seaters ? maybe they childmind so need the extra seats ? even if they "only" have 1 or 2 children of their own

before_hollywood

Rachie_B wrote:

you mean 7 seaters ? maybe they childmind so need the extra seats ? even if they "only" have 1 or 2 children of their own

there are very few 'large cars' that have 7 seats, if they do they usually have no luggage space whatsoever.

astonsmummy

Crabman wrote:

Awwwwwwww don't feel sorry... just promise you'll never ever go OT again :T

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I was being sarcastic:rolleyes:

carolwat

xzibit wrote:

I park in the parent and child spaces lol. Got fed up with people opening their doors into my cars! So since I got my new car last october, I park in them when I go. Figure the odd £60 fine is cheaper than removing dents! Although haven't been fined.....yet!!

you disgust me. for the sake of your new car i risk having my toddler hit by a car because i have to park further away and therefore walk further to get to the supermarket because you love your precious car so much and feel you have the right to park in a bigger space so noone hits it when opening their door. well i hope that one day you are parked next to a toddler that is in the kicking phase and you car gets kicked and a great big dent appears. you deserve it. never mind though cos the odd £60 fine you paying for to get the dents fixed eh.

carolwat

Princessa wrote:

Have to say, working at tesco, we don't fine cars for parking in the mother and baby/disabled bits. But we do get alot of complaints from angry customers who have 'only been tehre 5 mins' to return to their car and it have key scratches down it, so likely an angry parent has done it. Of course, they complain and we can't do anything about it.

fantastic. love it. much better for the scumbags who park in parent and toddler bays to have there car scratched than a poxy fine. would do it myself if i wasnt too scared of being caught

carolwat

chatta wrote:

I am wondering if people are getting too precious about their cars and lifes dings, all this talk of using two spaces etc is a bit much. If you wish to spend so much money on a car why not use online shopping then you can spend the time out polishing the car for the neighbour to admire :rolleyes:

:rotfl:

completely agree with you.

livinginhope

before_hollywood wrote:

a large car? for 2 small kids, now i am starting to wonder.

my car is the same size as a focus (its a hatchback) and it can accomodate my dad who is nearly 6 feet tall on one of the back seats and still have loads of room for our dog (a labrador) on the rest of the back seat (and she is a pain to have in the car lol).

my personal fave was when someone said they had a certain type of huge car because they had kids, my car was smaller and had plenty of room for 5 adults (including the driver).

and don't get me started on 'baby on board' things

i don't understand why people have to have these massive mpv things, they look like vans :eek:

and are driven completely stupidly

Well you obviously haven't tried getting a full weekly shop with 2 kids in tow and a pushchair in the boot!
The reason for these spaces is pretty obvious,the car door has to be opened fully in order to place a YOUNG child safely in it's car seat and strap it in.If you park in an ordinary space you have no room to do this.
Ah 'baby on board' signs,while I don't like these either,they do serve a very useful purpose,not to give the driver a licence to drive badly ,but if the car was involved in an accident the emergency services would see the sign and be alerted to the fact that children are present,which is not always obvious when a car is crumpled up!
I don't like door dents so I park miles across the car park and use my legs which is what they were designed for.
There rant over.

Weggy

carolwat wrote:

fantastic. love it. much better for the scumbags who park in parent and toddler bays to have there car scratched than a poxy fine. would do it myself if i wasnt too scared of being caught

I think you missed out a 't' from your username.

before_hollywood

livinginhope wrote:

Well you obviously haven't tried getting a full weekly shop with 2 kids in tow and a pushchair in the boot!
The reason for these spaces is pretty obvious,the car door has to be opened fully in order to place a YOUNG child safely in it's car seat and strap it in.If you park in an ordinary space you have no room to do this.
Ah 'baby on board' signs,while I don't like these either,they do serve a very useful purpose,not to give the driver a licence to drive badly ,but if the car was involved in an accident the emergency services would see the sign and be alerted to the fact that children are present,which is not always obvious when a car is crumpled up!
I don't like door dents so I park miles across the car park and use my legs which is what they were designed for.
There rant over.

no, i haven't, but my reason for thinking these spaces are a gimmick is because of the disastorous lack of allocation of proper disabled spaces, one of my mates works for a charity and he will tell you how bad it can be when you are taking a disabled person out to get a disabled space.
if anyone on here thinks i am wrong for sympathising with disabled people on this issue- i don't care, i have genuine sympathy for them and a lot of what this country is/has done is very little and very late.

and have you ever measured the boot space of a 4x4 or an mpv, not only are they ugly, noisy, unefficient and all the other things, they have hardly any boot space.

and why do we see so many cars with 'baby on board' things on, when the baby isn't in the car? surely that will lead to the emergency services going on a wild goose chase.

i too park at the other end of the car park, have done since i got my current car 2 and a bit years ago, in my other one i never got dents cos people were scared of denting theirs.

and noone apart from me says anything about people who park in the spaces with their HIGH SCHOOL AGE kids.

morveryn

Crabman wrote:

On the original subject, my local tesco store don't give a monkeys where you park I asked one of the trolley guys yesterday - he shrugged and said nobody cares :rotfl: Doesn't mean I'm going to start parking there though...

What an appalling attitude that is (from the trolley guy).
If a disabled person cannot gain access to a disabled parking bay because someone is there who shouldn't be, then that person may not be able to gain access to the store and the company can be fined.
I hope stores like this who 'don't care' do get fined.
I am disabled and if I came across that kind of attitude I certainly wouldn't shop there again and I would make sure I told as many people as I could about the stores 'don't give a crap about you' feeling towards parents with babies/young children and the disabled.

If more stores used Spacehog for spaces like parent and baby and disabled, abuse of spaces and blue badges would hoefully be kept to a minimum.