disabled and parents parking

Rolandtheroadie

Velcro_Hotdog wrote: »

Its called lazy f**kingitus, they hate having to walk

I agree to a certain extent, yes, a lot of people hate thinking people can park closer to the door than them so use the P&C.
But dont you think theres more to it than that? After all, there are far more normal sized spaces closer to the door of most supermarkets these days than P&C. I think it goes deeper.

littletonz

gregg1 wrote: »

Rubbish - of course its not akin to those using disabled spaces - you have a child, you are not disabled!

Sorry Gregg1 but why the aggression? :cool: If you see what I've written, all of my examples demonstrate selfish behaviour and a lack of consideration for others. I haven't ranken them in order of selfishness nor am I claiming that parking in a P&C space is the worst of the three.. they were examples, and were just intended as such.

As you'll see from what I've written, I'm perfectly happy to park in a normal parking space and do so more often than not.. I was just stating that they are useful... I have never claimed that I'm disabled, I never park in a disabled space and despised the lazy a*ses that do...

ahhh the joys of the internet eh? :rotfl:

gregg1

littletonz wrote: »

Sorry Gregg1 but why the aggression? :cool: If you see what I've written, all of my examples demonstrate selfish behaviour and a lack of consideration for others. I haven't ranken them in order of selfishness nor am I claiming that parking in a P&C space is the worst of the three.. they were examples, and were just intended as such.

As you'll see from what I've written, I'm perfectly happy to park in a normal parking space and do so more often than not.. I was just stating that they are useful... I have never claimed that I'm disabled, I never park in a disabled space and despised the lazy a*ses that do...

ahhh the joys of the internet eh? :rotfl:

I see you are new to the site - have to say if you are so sensitive as to think my tone was aggressive then gird your loins - you are in for a treat on this forum!

I was merely responding to your original statement that people who use P & C places without a child is "akin" to people who use disabled spaces when they are not disabled. It isn't. The availability of disabled spaces is far more important than P & C spaces and the abuse of disabled spaces far more serious and the impact far greater to my mind.

Jomo

gregg1 wrote: »

I see you are new to the site - have to say if you are so sensitive as to think my tone was aggressive then gird your loins - you are in for a treat on this forum!

I was merely responding to your original statement that people who use P & C places without a child is "akin" to people who use disabled spaces when they are not disabled. It isn't. The availability of disabled spaces is far more important than P & C spaces and the abuse of disabled spaces far more serious and the impact far greater to my mind.

Hear hear!

lindseykim13

Has nobody mentioned the safety aspect of p & c spaces? I use them to get the kids off the parking area as quickly as possible. If there is a space that isn't p&c closer to the safest path in i'll use that, doesn't matter if it's further away etc as long as it's a path not the car park itself. Isn't that the reason they were 'invented' in the first place?
Too many di*cks reverse out of their parking spaces without looking first, with a baby in one arm and 2 younger ones walking along side it's stressfull enough getting to safety! My DH is much bigger than any of my kids and he got reversed into. There was another time when someone left their handbrake off and went shopping. DH had to stop it rolling, i dread to think if it had started moving when a mum was busy getting a baby out with a child nearby.

I never use the disabled bays but they always seem empty when i go but do appreciate they are needed. Would be nice if they made paths along the parking areas for people in general to walk along safely.

I mostly shop online now though which is much less stressfull.

gregg1

lindseykim13 wrote: »

Has nobody mentioned the safety aspect of p & c spaces? I use them to get the kids off the parking area as quickly as possible. If there is a space that isn't p&c closer to the safest path in i'll use that, doesn't matter if it's further away etc as long as it's a path not the car park itself. Isn't that the reason they were 'invented' in the first place?
Too many di*cks reverse out of their parking spaces without looking first, with a baby in one arm and 2 younger ones walking along side it's stressfull enough getting to safety! My DH is much bigger than any of my kids and he got reversed into. There was another time when someone left their handbrake off and went shopping. DH had to stop it rolling, i dread to think if it had started moving when a mum was busy getting a baby out with a child nearby.

I never use the disabled bays but they always seem empty when i go but do appreciate they are needed. Would be nice if they made paths along the parking areas for people in general to walk along safely.

I mostly shop online now though which is much less stressfull.[/QUOTE]


Exactly what I was going to suggest. We shop online and it is so much easier.

bromleymum

gregg1 wrote: »

I'm curious. Just what sort of "progress" has made it impossible for someone with a child to park in anything other than a double size space?

Because its SAFER to have your pushchair at the side of the car while you're loading & unloading, especially in my case when I had 3 children under 4, rather than at the back or front of the car where cars are moving within inches of the babies.

I hated hearing cars passing by my pushchair while I was strapping another in but felt fine if the pushchair was safely between two cars and nowhere near moving traffic.

As i said, this is all about providing a safer parking space, not a more convenient one. It just has to be wider to be safer. Once you no longer have a child in a pushchair, there's no need for them.

Sorry for the delay in replying, I've been away.

mumps

Last week I went to a local out of town shopping centre and noticed that their P & C spaces weren't any bigger than normal spaces, just closer to the shop. Well the car park had been relaid, there were still some larger spaces but the new ones were small. The disabled spaces were still larger. Wonder if this is a new trend?

Went out yesterday and couldn't find a disabled space at local railway station. We actually struggled to find a space at all. Really annoying as there were at least two vehicles parked in disabled spaces and not displaying a blue badge. One was a builders van and one was a delivery van.

poet123

bromleymum wrote: »

Because its SAFER to have your pushchair at the side of the car while you're loading & unloading, especially in my case when I had 3 children under 4, rather than at the back or front of the car where cars are moving within inches of the babies.

I hated hearing cars passing by my pushchair while I was strapping another in but felt fine if the pushchair was safely between two cars and nowhere near moving traffic.

As i said, this is all about providing a safer parking space, not a more convenient one. It just has to be wider to be safer. Once you no longer have a child in a pushchair, there's no need for them.

Sorry for the delay in replying, I've been away.

It might have been even safer to shop when you could leave the kids at home, or online.

bromleymum

poet123 wrote: »

It might have been even safer to shop when you could leave the kids at home, or online.

Don't understand your point. Are you suggesting that I should have never taken the children out with me shopping? Do you really feel that strongly about car parking spaces?

I love online shopping!!! And leaving the children with my husband. And walking to the local shopping centre as well. But I drive to the shops with the children as well. Sorry!