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Parking in mother and child space
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If you can get yourself out of the car you can get them out of the car..
Do feel to come around and test your theory, which appears to defy the laws of physics when a 2 year old in a rear facing seat is concerned.
Alternatively, go and sit in your car's passenger seat backwards, and see how far you need to open your door to get out.Science adjusts its views based on what's observed.
Faith is the denial of observation, so that belief can be preserved.
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mildred1978 wrote: »Do feel to come around and test your theory, which appears to defy the laws of physics when a 2 year old in a rear facing seat is concerned.
Alternatively, go and sit in your car's passenger seat backwards, and see how far you need to open your door to get out.
How does it defy the laws of physics?:rotfl: Looks pretty darn simple to me (and if it wasn't then that would be your problem for choosing rear facing seats
) If women are birds and freedom is flight are trapped women Dodos?0 -
Yes that is very true. I have seen many a childless car take up the space. But like you said without knowing the person you would never know if/the nature of a disability.
I always have a parking attendant stare into my car when I pull up into a child space, they also monitor/help people in the disabled spaces.
We park in the child and parent spaces when we pick our son up with his baby and the pushchair , people give us dirty looks but we are using the space for my son and his child , so maybe when you see others doing this they may be picking their wife and baby up.0 -
How does it defy the laws of physics?:rotfl: Looks pretty darn simple to me (and if it wasn't then that would be your problem for choosing rear facing seats )
Ah right. Sorry for wanting my child to be as safe as possible. I suppose it would inconvenience everyone less if I just put him in the boot.
(It's not physically possible to get a child or adult who is strapped in and facing backwards out of a standard car door without it being opened almost fully. Its the physics of knee joints (which usually only bend one way) and having to get an adult close enough to be able to reach clips and child. Shouldn't take the intellect of Einstein to work that out.) Science adjusts its views based on what's observed.
Faith is the denial of observation, so that belief can be preserved.
:A Tim Minchin :A
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mildred1978 wrote: »Ah right. Sorry for wanting my child to be as safe as possible. I suppose it would inconvenience everyone less if I just put him in the boot.
(It's not physically possible to get a child or adult who is strapped in and facing backwards out of a standard car door without it being opened almost fully. Its the physics of knee joints (which usually only bend one way) and having to get an adult close enough to be able to reach clips and child. Shouldn't take the intellect of Einstein to work that out.)
What do how knees bend have to do with it?There would be no way of expecting them to bend in any other direction fgs
Reach in and unclip -easiest thing on earth to do.Guide child who moves forward or swings legs to the side and help them out.Shouldn't take the intellect of Einstein to work that out
And your joking about putting them in the boot instead of a rear facing seat just shows your over reaction.Hardly anybody uses a rear seating unless for a baby btwIf women are birds and freedom is flight are trapped women Dodos?0 -
What do how knees bend have to do with it?There would be no way of expecting them to bend in any other direction fgs
Reach in and unclip -easiest thing on earth to do.Guide child who moves forward or swings legs to the side and help them out.Shouldn't take the intellect of Einstein to work that out
Go and try it. If you sit in a forward facing seat you need less space to get out than if you kneel on the seat backwards.
A 2 year old can't swing legs out of seat, and being only 2.5 ft tall cant lean so far forward as to be able to get out through a small gap. But what do I know, I only do it everyday.......And your joking about putting them in the boot instead of a rear facing seat just shows your over reaction.Hardly anybody uses a rear seating unless for a baby btw
That's because they're too cheap to pay for the safest options available/not particularly bright.
(In Sweden it's illegal to put a child under 4 in a forward facing seat. What an enlightened country.)Science adjusts its views based on what's observed.
Faith is the denial of observation, so that belief can be preserved.
:A Tim Minchin :A
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Anybody would need more space if kneeling fgs :rotfl: Kids don't kneel in carseat though do they and parents don't need to kneel in a car to do the belts upIf women are birds and freedom is flight are trapped women Dodos?0
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Anybody would need more space if kneeling fgs :rotfl: Kids don't kneel in carseat though do they and parents don't need to kneel in a car to do the belts up
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You're getting rather tedious now.
It's not the kneeling - its the facing backwards that means more room is needed. The majority of the child's body is closer to the front seat than the back seat. In order to reach them you have to open the door wide!!
Seriously, do you normally need this much help to understand such simple things?Science adjusts its views based on what's observed.
Faith is the denial of observation, so that belief can be preserved.
:A Tim Minchin :A
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mildred1978 wrote: »:wall:
You're getting rather tedious now.
It's not the kneeling - its the facing backwards that means more room is needed. The majority of the child's body is closer to the front seat than the back seat. In order to reach them you have to open the door wide!!
Seriously, do you normally need this much help to understand such simple things?
Why can't you just park at the end of a row if it's that important?0 -
Why can't you just park at the end of a row if it's that important?mildred1978 wrote: »At my local retail park there are 8 parent and child spaces and at least 30 disabled spaces (not reflecting the local demographic by a long long way). Disabled people frequently park in the parent and child spaces (along with people who leave someone in the car - why?)) despite there being at least a dozen free disabled spaces. There aren't many end spaces because people frequently park on the grass alongside them, effectively boxing you in.
Because I like to be able to a) get in and out of the car and b) to be able to leave when I want to, not when someone else decides they want to!
I don't suppose you'd be in favour of me parking across 2 spaces either, so I'm not left with a lot of choice!Science adjusts its views based on what's observed.
Faith is the denial of observation, so that belief can be preserved.
:A Tim Minchin :A
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