Can disabled people park in parent and child spaces?

gunsandbanjos

facade wrote: »

You as well?

I thought it was just me that "they" were after.

Still, if I'm not there, I suppose they have to pick on someone else.....;)

No, they are after everyone, my dad complains about this too.

My parents tend to buy very nice cars and my dad parks miles away in the furthest section from the door to avoid dings and he says invariably he returns and some nutter has parked right next to him.

Hundreds of spaces round about but they feel the need to park right next to someone else. Weird.

peter12345678910

gunsandbanjos wrote: »

No, they are after everyone, my dad complains about this too.

My parents tend to buy very nice cars and my dad parks miles away in the furthest section from the door to avoid dings and he says invariably he returns and some nutter has parked right next to him.

Hundreds of spaces round about but they feel the need to park right next to someone else. Weird.

Great cars think alike.

If you escuse the pun

WellKnownSid

gunsandbanjos wrote: »

Hundreds of spaces round about but they feel the need to park right next to someone else. Weird.

Usually a bloody great big transit van or similar truck.

And it doesn't matter how far it is away from the store, or how many thousands of empty spaces there are... It can be a completely empty car park and the next person along WILL park next to you, often six inches closer than technically necessary so as to make door opening slightly trickier.

I strongly suspect that there is a deep rooted fear people have of leaving their animals. Probably millions of years ago we learned that when you tie up your ox on its own, there is a greater chance of a sabre-toothed tiger attack and if that happens you will starve to death.

So you always tie up your ox with others. Sapiens, eh!

facade

WellKnownSid wrote: »

the next person along WILL park next to you, often six inches closer than technically necessary so as to make door opening slightly trickier.

And as I always face outwards (by driving through the double space) they invariably park their drivers side too close to my drivers door, so they must have squeezed out themselves. :mad:

However on the subject of oxen being killed:

I was watching that BBC cycling programme, and one of the tips was:
If you are stopping at a cafe, always sprint off in front of your mates, so your bike is at the bottom of the heap, and less likely to get nicked.

almillar

My wife has a Mini , she works at a Supermarket , we have 18 car park dents on her car !

Tell her about the Citroen C4 Cactus...

Minrich

sheramber wrote: »

I have many times when there was no such thing as parent child places.

I do't know how I and my children survived in such olden days.

Maybe we parked out of the way in a quiet part to the carpark. Oh wait, that would involve walking.

almillar wrote: »

Tell her about the Citroen C4 Cactus...

Its a Citroen ! My Bro in law had a Citroen , during the scrappage scheme he got more for it under the scheme than any dealer would give him , it was 3 years old with 27k !

almillar

Its a Citroen !

An excellent survey of one. Bet it wasn't a C4 Cactus. OP's wife is currently in a Mini which gets slated on this forum for unreliability so it could well be more reliable.

xHannahx

One of our local supermarkets - can't remember which has a private (un)enforcement company and signs for the parent and child spaces restricting to children under 5. Unless they watch everyone come and go I can't see how they can enforce such a rule.

As a parent of 2 kids under 6, and me being 38 weeks pregnant now, we try and park in the quiet far corner of the supermarket car park and straddle 2 spaces down the middle. The only time we find this isn't possible is around Christmas. It actually gives more space than parent child spaces, although time to time a photo of our car turns up on the bad parking Facebook groups! I need the space to get out the car with my bump!

bigbadbear9

Try getting a car seat containing a baby out of a car that's parked in a regular space. It's not easy because there usually isn't enough room. Fair enough do away with the P&C spaces but don't start moaning when you start noticing dinks in your car door.

1886

I was parked in my local Tesco last week opposite the disabled bays and parent/children bays waiting for my wife and decided to watch exactly who parked in these spaces.

I'd say a good 75% of cars that went in the bays should'nt have been parked there. Looking at the people that then got out of those cars it did'nt surprise me. Lets just say a certain 'type' of person parks in these bays.

The sort of person that I would never want to know, work alongside or be related to.