Parent/Child Parking at Tescos

[hoots the scoop]

Hoots the scoop with people parking in the parent/child spaces at tescos when they do not either have children or don't have them with them?

Most inconvenient to take two children from the far side of the car park to tescos yesterday afternoon after a 'lady' with NO children present took the child/parent place I was driving round to park at.

What's the point in them if ignorant people just use them.

[daftdog]

Its just plain ignorance.. The same thing happens everywhere and with disabled parking spaces as well.

But unfortunately, its the world we live in now and if you were to complain to the management in most places about it (don't know about the local Tescos' in the town), they would very polite to you and apologise about the situation, but as soon as you are gone, you would be labeled the moany b@st@rd.

[whacko]

Next time it happens why not park your car directly behind theirs; so blocking them in.

It'd be interesting to see whether they have the balls to complain to the management.

[daftdog]

Next time it happens why not park your car directly behind theirs; so blocking them in.

I was going to say that in my previous post, but thought i would be laughed at..

[SmithD]

If the childrens parking spaces are taken up when I go, I go and park in 2 normal spaces! Then I have plenty of space to open the doors!

it really irritates me when people park in them, and I have come very close to knocking on the window of the car and asking why these people park there!! They should do what the ASDA in England does, and fine these people who park there!

[gizmo]

and indeed fine the buggers who park across 2 spaces... kind of anti-social as well

[Sheik Yir Erse]

Why don't we just go the whole hog and start shooting them

I wonder what we had to worry about 5-years ago in car parks before parent and child places? Oh that's right, we'd just have parked in the first space we came to, and the kids might have had to walk more than 4 yards to the front door! Instead we now have 'self-appointed' commissionaires and people who will circle around the parent and child spaces for 20 minutes, waiting for one to become free so they don't have an additional 10 seconds walk.

I now tend to steer well clear of them as unfortunately I've discovered that there's nowhere better for getting your car dented than parent and child spaces. Children open car doors with abandon, and woe betide any car in the way of Wee Johnny at the helm of mummy's trolley with 4-hundredweight of shopping in it

I tend now to park as far away from the front door as possible, there always seems to be plenty of space, and much less stress

Oh, and when I do see someone parking there - without children in tow - I tend not to bother too much about it - life's too short

[SmithD]

and indeed fine the buggers who park across 2 spaces... kind of anti-social as well

Thats up to you what you think, but I would rather park in 2 spaces than have my kids in danger! Wouldn't you??

If I don't have the kids I don't park in them, and I park in one space! rather that than what was said before denting a door, but that would be me doing that as I don' trust them to open it, specially with all these people circling waiting for the space!

But then it is the same with the blue badge spaces, people park in them with no badge at Tesco and nothing is done! Which is worse than the parent spaces!

[howlsatthemoon]

Blame the supermarket, if they put the parent/child parking spaces in the furthest away corner then nobody would park in them.

[bill]

Blame the supermarket, if they put the parent/child parking spaces in the furthest away corner then nobody would park in them.

That is pure genius

[Sheik Yir Erse]

Like your thinking howls, like your thinking

[Mary G]

Reading these posts made me think of this:

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/environment/people-who-know-how-to-f%2acking-park-on-brink-of-extinction-20070912397/

[EileenH]

I recently went to Tescos and couldn't get a space anywhere other than a parent toddler space. I do have children but they're no longer 'toddlers'. The choice was either to park out in the street or take one of these spaces. As I spend near to £70 there on shopping, I expected that they would appreciate my business! I also noted that, although the cars parked in these spaces were 'parents of toddlers', these people were coming out with their shopping but had no 'toddlers' with them! Seems a bit unfair don't you think, that these parents can go shopping, use one of these spaces, even though they don't have their 'toddlers' with them! So, I wasn't the only one abusing this space!

[Malky]

I tend now to park as far away from the front door as possible, there always seems to be plenty of space, and much less stress

I'm with you on this one Sheik - I always park at the far end too. Every scratch and dent on our car has happened in Tescos car park - well that's what my wife tells me

Malky

[petewick]

Take the bus instead of the car, no parking disputes there.