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If its a law not to park there then someone must have authority to enforce it... i mean at supermarkets etc... store manager or any security personnel?

 

It's not a law.

 

I may be wrong but I am pretty sure that I read somewhere that in 2009 the law was enforced to issue a fixed penalty notice if someone without a blue badge parks at a disabled spot! before that it was more like courtesy not to park there..

 

I was taling about Parent & Child spaces, as per the thread title.

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One thing that annoys me as a diligent non user of the disabled/PAC spaces is how many there are!!

 

I mean Christ are 2/3rds of the country paraplegic or with child these days?

 

I'm all for prividing the facility but I must admit I'd rather not have to get a taxi from my space 4 mile away to the shop I'm trying to visit!

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When my daughter was nearly 2yrs old I took her in the zed to Sainsburys.

(this was a rare occasion. Normally use the other car but she was in a seat with massive side protection with the passenger seat well back ;) )

Car park was heaving but by chance got a parent bay right by the entrance. The big merc 4x4 behind me honked it's horn stopping in front of my car, WAG looking lady wound her window down hurling abuse at me as I got out "don't you know this is a parent and child space you effing selfish so and so.....yada yada". I just answered "I know" ignored her, went round to the passenger side and unloaded my toddler.

She looked like she was ready to lynch me but didn't even appologise when I pulled out my daughter for her to see :surrender:

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Just to simplify the issue of law, and quite correctly there is no law to control these parking spaces on private ground, so what can the stores do? They have the right to refuse to serve you, ask you to leave and effectively ban you from their store and property. Now do I think they would do this then the answer is a big no because they expect reasonable human beings to comply, but you are not dealing with reasonable law abiding people anymore. Clearly the managers etc do not want to get involved because it could end up with the laying on of hands, something they do not receive training for.

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..and therein lies the problem, in this country (and we are not unique in this but also certainly not in a single global group) I find so many people that really couldn't care less when it comes to work, having pride in it and thinking about good customer service. Customer service in the UK is appalling, it really is a joke compared to a lot of other countries, problem is they go home at night thinking they have done a good days work and the cycle continues.

 

I could list every week ten utterly shocking pieces of customer service I receive, stuff people should be fired for, yet it just goes on and on...and when the country is on its knees and struggling to recover yeah lets all just blame the PM as its his fault those people are doing a half ar$ed job and expecting the economy to just magically work again.

 

Mr Store Manager, you manage the site, there are people you need to address in the car park parking in kids spots, get your lazy ar$e out there and do something about it.

 

/end :rant:

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I actually use any parking space when I am with Alfie, doesn't bother me in the slightest, I am pretty fit and flexible and can get him out no problem. However, Becks is still struggling with carpal, didnt have the most straight forward of births and finds it almost impossible to lift stuff let alone double over in a car space and lift Alfie out whilst off balance. Sorry mate, would have to say at the moment those spaces are a godsend for her when she is with the little man on her own.

 

Edit: Actually, they don't even have to be right out front of the store, its only getting the lad out of the car thats the problem, would be quite happy to have them at the back of the car park!

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When my daughter was nearly 2yrs old I took her in the zed to Sainsburys.

(this was a rare occasion. Normally use the other car but she was in a seat with massive side protection with the passenger seat well back ;) )

Car park was heaving but by chance got a parent bay right by the entrance. The big merc 4x4 behind me honked it's horn stopping in front of my car, WAG looking lady wound her window down hurling abuse at me as I got out "don't you know this is a parent and child space you effing selfish so and so.....yada yada". I just answered "I know" ignored her, went round to the passenger side and unloaded my toddler.

She looked like she was ready to lynch me but didn't even appologise when I pulled out my daughter for her to see :surrender:

 

I had something similar happen to me a few years ago.

 

We'd gone to the supermarket in the M3 we used to have. We paid for our shopping and I pushed the trolley out to the car. I got to the back of the car before my Mrs (who had had to stop to take Louie to the toilet). I had the boot open and was putting the shopping in when a woman in a Q7 started shouting at me "you selfish bastard, these spaces are for people with kids" etc etc. I politely told her to **** OFF, when up trotted my mrs with Louie in the push chair and opened our passenger door to start getting him in. Needless to say, the Q7 lady scarpered without so much as a sorry!

 

It's stuff like this that makes going to the local Supermarket soooo stressful that I point blankly refuse to do it anymore. This also has something to do with the fact that once your in there everyone seems to want to get in the way of my shopping trolley which send my blood pressure through the roof!!!

 

Online shopping for me only now! I'm more than happy to pay the £4 for them to bring it to my house!!

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Do you know why we have sainsbury, tesco, morrison, asda etc, its quite simple because it keeps the riff raff out of waitrose, lovely and quiet with room to walk up and down the aisles without bumping into each other, even on a Saturday afternoon.

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Do you know why we have sainsbury, tesco, morrison, asda etc, its quite simple because it keeps the riff raff out of waitrose, lovely and quiet with room to walk up and down the aisles without bumping into each other, even on a Saturday afternoon.

 

i love waitrose, they deliver for free as well :teeth:

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