tesco parking Gestapo

[fatboy69]

Probably shouldnt have parked in the family parking bays if you didn't have any children with you however there are certain polite ways of making this point to someone.

I'm guessing that you didn't have any kids with you & I'm also assuming that had she, politely, said that you were taking up a family parking space when you didn't have kids you probably would have moved the car?

[djohnson]

Raddors said:

...Three year old 12 bore Browning.

Three year old child.

[the stigs dad]

V8mate said:

Hmmn. I think you've just managed to outknob the OP.

Are you a twunt then?

[Roo]

Caulkhead said:

She was obviously on the blob, though I'm not at all sure why your car needs more than a standard sized parking space - it's only 3 and a bit inches wider and half an inch longer than my Mazda 6 and I don't have trouble parking that.

Because it's only got two doors that are long enough to allow access to the rear seats, and are also very thick, so you have to open them a long way to get out of the drivers seat.

[Riley Blue]

Find a granny, claim she's your mother, park in parent and child space. I used to do this with my real mother when she was in her 80s, she used to love it - but then I've always been her little boy.

[gt500nick]

Ari said:

Classic chav justification.

"Well other people drop litter"

"Well other people let their dogs st on the pavement"

"Well other people put their feet on seats"

"Well other people park in these spaces"


Woman sounds like a nutter, but she was far more in the right than you.

I don't drop litter, put my feet on seat, let dogs st on pavements.

[Changedmyname]

doogz said:

Changedmyname said:

doogz said:

Changedmyname said:

On a simmilar note I saw a Audi 8 V12 with its arse end sticking way out of the parking space, in Morrisons ,belonging to the manager.

Nice car though.

What's an Audi 8 V12?

Realy?

Really?

Audi made a V12 diesel engine, that they put in the Q7, I think?

There's never been a V12 in an A8, has there?

Well I only notied it because it was big and the V12 badge was red.
That's all.

[Raddors]

djohnson said:

Raddors said:

...Three year old 12 bore Browning.

Three year old child.

Same end result though I'd expect.

[Agent Orange]

A lex said:

Oh, this st again.

Just so we have covered all the bases:

-Parent & child space = fair game.

-Diabled space = no-no (unless you are actually a cripple).

No you missed the bit where I said Disabled Space = fair game.

[gt500nick]

I was with my wife, what if I had said she was pregnant? that's mother and child isn't it?

[OdramaSwimLaden]

*JH* said:

doogz said:

Really?

Audi made a V12 diesel engine, that they put in the Q7, I think?

There's never been a V12 in an A8, has there?

Not a V but they did have a W12 in the S8

Almost right.

The S8 was a V10.

The A8 was a 12 cylinder 6 litre.


ETA....there were different engines in the various S8's. I think the one you were refering to was the 05 ish to 09 ish S8 that was V10.

Edited by OdramaSwimLaden on Tuesday 13th November 14:33

[richb77]

Having a baby at the moment I find it EXTREMELY annoying when some tit in his "insert German branded fleet vehicle here" park in the family spots to do his weekly shop.

I end up having to shoe-horn my one year old out of the door whilst I have my leg/arm between the door and the car next to me because the spaces are ridiculously small.

Was she out of order....Yes for the verbal, No for being annoyed.

Where you wrong for parking in the family spot...YES.

[LocoCoco]

Riley Blue said:

Find a granny, claim she's your mother, park in parent and child space. I used to do this with my real mother when she was in her 80s, she used to love it - but then I've always been her little boy.

Haha, well played.

[bingybongy]

Here we go again.

[Big Fat Fatty]

*JH* said:

Big Fat Fatty said:

My mum managed alright, of course these were the days when Parent and Child spaces were merely ideas in the minds of science fiction writers but still.......

To be fair in those days parking spaces were not the width of a Fiat 500...

But most cars available at the time were, in fact she used to have a mk2 XR2, ever tried getting anything, let alone a living thing, in and out of the back of one of those?

[gt500nick]

richb77 said:

Having a baby at the moment I find it EXTREMELY annoying when some tit in his "insert German branded fleet vehicle here" park in the family spots to do his weekly shop.

I end up having to shoe-horn my one year old out of the door whilst I have my leg/arm between the door and the car next to me because the spaces are ridiculously small.

Was she out of order....Yes for the verbal, No for being annoyed.

Where you wrong for parking in the family spot...YES.

I take that on board yes I was in wrong, and happy to acknowledge that fact.

[Face for Radio]

Fatchops said:

I park at the far end of the carpark and walk the extra 30 seconds but parent and child spaces have always annoyed me, does having a kid somehow make you disabled? why can't your child walk further? it would stop it being such a fat ass, and if it's a baby push it furher and get some exercise and stop having such a fat ass. Having said that after watching them swing their doors out wide for Felicity and Tarquin and banging them into other peoples cars at least it keeps them coralled away from me.

As well as being wide so that you can open the doors wide enough to get child seats out, parent and child spaces always have a direct pedestrian route to the door, so small children don't have to walk around cars.

With many cars you probably can't see a child below the windowline, and as such it removes the possibility of someone with a chip on their shoulder reversing out quickly without looking properly and running a ~2-year old child over.

[Monkeylegend]

richb77 said:

Having a baby at the moment

Then stop posting on here and get yourself to hospital. Good luck.

[Captain Muppet]

Agent Orange said:

Captain Muppet said:

I wonder how you would write that post "as a disabled" rather than "as a parent".

Differently I suspect.

Don't try and be naughty and twist my comment into an anti-disabled stance. Was nothing of the sort.

Simply stating there are proportionally far more spaces reserved for disabled drivers, of which many are empty, compared to parent spaces.

I was just highlighting your obvious "pro-parent" stance.

But you're right, there are often disabled spaces free when all the parent and child spaces are full.

I suspect that's because so many more people have children than disabilities. People who have children are a huge majority and they are unfairly represented with special parking spaces.

What car parks should have is a majority of parent and child parking, with some disabled spaces near the door and a few spaces for barren childless husks at the back.

[Devil2575]

Fast Bug said:

How about don't park in the parent and child section if you've not got a child with you? Problem solved then...

This.

Trying to get kids in and out of a car without touching the car in the next space with your door can be quite a challenge in a standard width space, expecially in the person next to you drives an oversized penis extens... sorry, 4x4.