soundview Posted April 17, 2012 Author Report Share Posted April 17, 2012 Jesus Christ, is it going to take a kid being run over for you to change your mind?!!!!! Stinks of complacency to me.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roachmill Posted April 17, 2012 Report Share Posted April 17, 2012 You're missing the point of having the M&T parking spots next to the main doors. You lock the kids *in* the car. Then, by virtue of it being by the front door, you can hear them scream for attention should the need arise. It's simple really and makes for a much more relaxed shopping experience Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unlinkedstudent Posted April 17, 2012 Report Share Posted April 17, 2012 Jesus Christ, is it going to take a kid being run over for you to change your mind?!!!!! Stinks of complacency to me.... NO. Parents have to take responsibility. Apart from being a parent I'm also a car driver. I drive at a suitable speed in such car parks. I agree with the comment that people don't always have babysitters and cannot afford them so for some, they don't have an option but to shop with their children. It isn't easy being a parent, it isn't a bundle of laughs shopping with children but it can be done. As for reins being a nightmare, get the ones that adjust in length. Who's in control, the parent or the child(ren)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Longdog Posted April 17, 2012 Report Share Posted April 17, 2012 Drives me mad too, not that I need it any more as ours is more manageable now so we don't use them. Using the parent and child or disabled space or just randomly parking any where such as on the pavement is just inconsiderate and lazy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piddly Posted April 17, 2012 Report Share Posted April 17, 2012 How about the parents, who when driving into the Tesco car park see that there is no parking spaces available in the parent/toddler area so they either use the disabled parking next to the cash points, or then move around to the disabled parking at the other side of the building. Parents with toddlers are just as inconsiderate, just saying Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soundview Posted April 17, 2012 Author Report Share Posted April 17, 2012 How about the parents, who when driving into the Tesco car park see that there is no parking spaces available in the parent/toddler area so they either use the disabled parking next to the cash points, or then move around to the disabled parking at the other side of the building. Parents with toddlers are just as inconsiderate, just saying Those parents that do that are just as bad, and probably the same ones that use the p&t spaces when they don't have their kids with them. They are all lazy, inconsiderate, numpties. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piddly Posted April 17, 2012 Report Share Posted April 17, 2012 Yip!!! Everybody's at it, not just the childless able bodied folk, and there's f-all you can do about it in Tesco's car park. As for around the street, what is the craic with this new traffic warden? I've only seen him a couple of times over the last few weeks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Russabell Posted April 17, 2012 Report Share Posted April 17, 2012 Until I actually had bairns myself, I would probably have thought that parent and child spaces were not necessary, but I have changed my views now!To me, the main issue and the reason for having these spaces is to have enough space around the car to get your bairn in and out of the car into its car seat - especially relevant when it is the young baby carrier type of seats that you have to lift into the car. It is really difficult and sometimes impossible to get them in the car when you have a car parked right next to you. (And sometimes when I have been parked in a normal space at Tesco, I have had to climb into my car through the passenger door due to some inconsiderate so and so parking too close to me). I don't think the people who see these spaces as unnecessary would be too happy having their car scratched or bumped by a parent struggling to put their bairn in the car next to them. When my bairns are old enough that they don't need put in and out of seats, I will revert back to using the normal spaces as it also really annoys me when I see parents with older children using them. I think Tesco made a boob putting the parent and child spaces where they did - it's just too tempting for everyone to park there. I don't actually mind having the spaces further away from the door - I simply want enough room around the car so that I can get the bairns in and out of the car without a problem. In fact if there are no spaces, I simply park right across two spaces so that I do have enough room and I suggest that others do the same so that we can try and get the message across. Someone I know puts messages under the wipers of the offending cars when they see them parked in the parent and child spaces but I think it would take a lot to shame some people! As someone mentioned earlier, it is not easy at Tesco due to the gradient of the car park. It's a nightmare trying to get your bairn back in the car whilst preventing the trolley rolling away into another car or into the path of another car. And I do try to shop without the bairns whenever possible, but there are times when I just can't do that. If only life were that easy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soundview Posted April 17, 2012 Author Report Share Posted April 17, 2012 Russabell has a good point, they could move the P&T spaces round the other side of the entrance, even up at the far side near the fence, then there would still be the option of sticking to the pavement all the way round. They could use the exsisting P&T spaces for disabled parking. Folk would probably be less likely to abuse disabled parking spaces. Parents should take responsibility, they should come down like a ton of bricks on people they see abusing parking spaces. Maybe most people drive responsibly but there are plenty that drive like idiots, even in car parks. It only takes one fool to accelerate madly down the road and miss the bairn running out from between two cars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shetlandpeat Posted April 17, 2012 Report Share Posted April 17, 2012 Tesco was asked about the issue with their disabled spaces here, this is the response.. they can’t enforce it due to "the customer not entering into a contract with Tesco" They apologised for any inconvenience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biglad Posted April 17, 2012 Report Share Posted April 17, 2012 Biglad me lad, you have no idea about the reality of life with kids. What if you are a single parent? Can all folk afford to get a baby sitter just to go shopping? What if you actually want to include your child in your life? A childs' safety in a car park is no small matter. It's worth discussing I think. Just leave the parent/child spaces for the folk with young kids. Also, to answer an earlier post, the folk that I have confronted about parking in disabled spaces were definitely NOT disabled, leaping out of the car and sprinting into the chippy kind of proves it I think. It's not like there was anyone else in the car either. And no blue badge. Nice!! Am not going to start trumping you but try it with a disabled child in a wheelchair and a 3 year old, stop complaining, learn to adjust and get on with it. Remember there's always someone more in need than yourself! [***Mod edit - removed bold and underlining***] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biglad Posted April 17, 2012 Report Share Posted April 17, 2012 ^ sorry about the bold and underlining! [***Mod edit - fixed that for you ***] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trout81 Posted April 17, 2012 Report Share Posted April 17, 2012 i think its a must. i would like to give the people who are against it a few toddlers to take in a carpark and park in a normal space. you might park fine with plenty room at each side when you go in the shop but all it takes is the cars on each side to leave and someone to park rubbish and you cant get the back doors open. i've had that before where i've had to get the kids in one side the amount of times i've been in a car park and not got a parent space and park in a normal space and the car door blows open and hits the car beside. i think you need it more for the space to get a door fully open. its pretty difficult to grab your bag, bags for shopping, baby then a toddler with the door not fully open i was at tescos today. my youngest was asleep so my boyfriend parked up the back and sat in the car 40 minuts while he slept and i shopped. he then woke up, so he parked the car in the parents spaces down at the front and came in with the baby. we then the kids back in the car and our shopping in andd he wanted to go back in for a look so i took the car up to the back of the car park so someone that needed the space could get it rather than me sitting in the car with 2 kids while my boyfriend went in Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soundview Posted April 17, 2012 Author Report Share Posted April 17, 2012 Biglad me lad, you have no idea about the reality of life with kids. What if you are a single parent? Can all folk afford to get a baby sitter just to go shopping? What if you actually want to include your child in your life? A childs' safety in a car park is no small matter. It's worth discussing I think. Just leave the parent/child spaces for the folk with young kids. Also, to answer an earlier post, the folk that I have confronted about parking in disabled spaces were definitely NOT disabled, leaping out of the car and sprinting into the chippy kind of proves it I think. It's not like there was anyone else in the car either. And no blue badge. Nice!! Am not going to start trumping you but try it with a disabled child in a wheelchair and a 3 year old, stop complaining, learn to adjust and get on with it. Remember there's always someone more in need than yourself! [***Mod edit - removed bold and underlining***] Big lad, none of the questions I posed above actually apply to myself so no trumping required. Complaining? Or sticking up for your rights? There are many folk more in need than myself and it drives me nuts when I see inconsiderate fools only thinking of themselves. If you don't want to be a part of this discussion by all means stop posting! Or post your own topic: "do you get fed up of people complaining all the time?"! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Medziotojas Posted April 17, 2012 Report Share Posted April 17, 2012 Oh the irony of bickering about bickering Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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