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Charging for parent & child parking
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Just get the bus."I've fallen down a hole" - said in best Monty Python voice-over.0
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Hi all
I admit it was only £1 and so not a hideous amount of money but it is the principle behind it that annoys me. This is for a 'permit' that allows us to use the P&C parking for 12 months but we still have to pay the exit fee for the car park.
Many thanks
Mj
Now if you had said a £1 each time you used the permit I could understand your outrage but for a whole year that's got to be worth it surely.
I reckon all car parks should make all spaces wider and stop this stupid thing of cramming spaces in that are only just wide enough for the car with no room either side......we could then do away with mother & toddler spaces all together!If my posts have random wrong words, please blame the damn autocorrect not me
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Please feel free to take my kids shopping with you for the day.
Most people on here are saying they have or have had small children themselves...
Perhaps it's parenting skills that make the difference between managing or not?
And when I have accidentally scratched your car as I have to access both sides of my car to get the kids in I'm sure you will find claiming on my insurance totally unnecessary?!
This is that 'argument' that makes me lose any empathy! Not only do some parents feel they have a god given right to preferential treatment, they also think it is acceptable to scratch and/or dent an innocent persons car if they don't get their bigger space!
I see this point time and again on these threads and it's shocking tbh!
Most retort that they don't actually hit other cars but it's a possibility dah de dah, but simply using that line indicates the selfish sense of entitlement some parents have. It's not just children who have tantrums when they don't get their own way it seems!0 -
Just get the bus.
Or shop without a carload of kids? Surely quite possible if there are two parents? And even single parents could 'share', taking it in turns to do the shopping or the childcare.
Or use internet shopping.
I don't disapprove of the wider spaces, but really, they are NOT a necessity! Parents these days seem to think the world should stop because they have managed to produce little diddums!
(AKA HRH_MUngo)
Member #10 of £2 savers club
Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is the Book of British Birds, and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology: Terry Eagleton0 -
How is 2 extra feet of tarmac asking the world to stop?seven-day-weekend wrote: »Parents these days seem to think the world should stop because they have managed to produce little diddums!
Talk about melodramatic!Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.0 -
Lets not be silly, no one is having a tantrum, unless we count those people who seem to think it's wrong for someone else to have something they can't.This is that 'argument' that makes me lose any empathy! Not only do some parents feel they have a god given right to preferential treatment, they also think it is acceptable to scratch and/or dent an innocent persons car if they don't get their bigger space!
I see this point time and again on these threads and it's shocking tbh!
Most retort that they don't actually hit other cars but it's a possibility dah de dah, but simply using that line indicates the selfish sense of entitlement some parents have. It's not just children who have tantrums when they don't get their own way it seems!
No one has said they will scratch a car on purpose, they are saying it might happen, because sometimes it's difficult to get a child into a car without a bit extra room.
I want to type it in enormous letters, because it seems difficult to get into some peoples heads!
Stop making things up!Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.0 -
Lotus-eater wrote: »How is 2 extra feet of tarmac asking the world to stop?
Talk about melodramatic!
I wasn't just talking about parking spaces when I said that bit.(AKA HRH_MUngo)
Member #10 of £2 savers club
Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is the Book of British Birds, and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology: Terry Eagleton0 -
I assumed as we were talking about car spaces and the lovely people out there who complain like crazy that they are not allowed the extra space that someone with a child is, that that is what you were referring too.seven-day-weekend wrote: »I wasn't just talking about parking spaces when I said that bit.
How we go from a person who needs a little more space in a car park, because the spaces seem to be getting smaller and cars are definitely getting bigger, to people accusing parents of thinking they have god given rights, being called names, accused of all kinds of things.
It really beggers belief.
I'm done, because I just can't carry on with this thread, it's making me too depressed at the attitudes of people out there.
The way some people tar everyone with the same brush and call people names, is amongst the worst behaviour I have seen on here.Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.0 -
Lotus-eater wrote: »Lets not be silly, no one is having a tantrum, unless we count those people who seem to think it's wrong for someone else to have something they can't.
No one has said they will scratch a car on purpose, they are saying it might happen, because sometimes it's difficult to get a child into a car without a bit extra room.
I want to type it in enormous letters, because it seems difficult to get into some peoples heads!
Stop making things up!
What those parents are saying is: give me my space or there is a chance your car will be damaged.
In my book that is the same as having a tantrum and resorting to veiled threats in order to get ones way.0 -
Lotus-eater wrote: »I assumed as we were talking about car spaces and the lovely people out there who complain like crazy that they are not allowed the extra space that someone with a child is, that that is what you were referring too.
How we go from a person who needs a little more space in a car park, because the spaces seem to be getting smaller and cars are definitely getting bigger, to people accusing parents of thinking they have god given rights, being called names, accused of all kinds of things.
It really beggers belief.
I'm done, because I just can't carry on with this thread, it's making me too depressed at the attitudes of people out there.
The way some people tar everyone with the same brush and call people names, is amongst the worst behaviour I have seen on here.
Don't you think that's a bit melodramatic?0
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