Parent and Child Space
A couple of years ago I became a daddy. Go me and my fertile loins! Anyway, one day, probably a Saturday, family Nitrous drive in to the car park of our local Supermarket looking for a parking space. In the near distance we spot a parent and child space, but before we can grab it, some bloke in a Jaguar, who clearly has no right to be there, nabs it before us.

"Excuse me old chap" I say "you do realise that you have mistakenly parked in space meant for the use of families with children? Perhaps you could move your Penis-Mobile and let someone who has actually had sex with girl park there instead?"(or words to that effect)

The guy just grins and says in his best pidgin "Sorry, no speaky da English"

Fine, I thought, I'm not in any rush, I've got time to kill. So I take down his licence plate, march up to the information desk and report the cocky little fucker.

A message goes out over the Tanoy and small-penis is politely summoned. This is his opportunity to admit that he is in the wrong, or, even better, move his car. Instead he becames increasingly indignant trying to insist that it is his god-given right to park where he likes because he spends more money in the store than people with babies. Weirdly his command of English gets much, much, better, and his command of Anglo-Saxon is quite extrordinary. In fact his Anglo-Saxon is so good that the Manager of the store is called to deal with the situation. Anyway after spending a good few minutes racially abusing the staff the manager decides to ban him from the store for good.

Moral of the story: If you get caught out, don't be a cock about it, admit that you are in the wrong and try and salvage some personal dignity from the situation.
(Nitrous Nitrous, Thu 2 Sep 2010, 23:22, 12 replies)

Hurrah for you!
Good outcome. It's petty little things like parking in a family space which enrage me too. Parking in disabled spaces are worse. I've challenged people twice about parking in one without a disabled badge. Once person made a weak excuse but then moved, the other threatened to kick my head in, so I reported him, but never found out if anything happened.
(Smale is stuffed, Fri 3 Sep 2010, 8:09, closed)

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I suppose kicking your head in would have somewhat prejudiced his claim to a disbled space.

Some supermarkets have these really evil stickers that they slap on windscreens - they're huge, and stick like shit to a blanket. They've also got perforations in them that make it impossible to peel off in one go - you effectively get about 300 1cm x 1cm pieces to pick off. Good stuff.
( Not Pineapple anymore, Fri 3 Sep 2010, 9:12, closed)

Oh, nice one!
What do the stickers say? I hope it's something like 'If you cannot grasp why a disabled person needs this space more than you do, we suggest you GO AND BREAK YOUR FUCKING SPINE'.
( Bob Todd whee, Fri 3 Sep 2010, 12:27, closed)

Doesn't that mean...
...you have to spend another hour denying a disabled user the space whilst you pick it off?
(kingnutter, Fri 3 Sep 2010, 12:29, closed)

But at least everyone can see you and point and laugh at you.

( Bob Todd whee, Fri 3 Sep 2010, 13:44, closed)

No,
I have in mind they stick it over the passenger side, or on the drivers side window, but I haven't seen it for a while. Sainsburys in Chiswick used to do it. They're about a foot square and flourescent orange.
( Not Pineapple anymore, Fri 3 Sep 2010, 14:00, closed)

Blue badges
In my local supermarket car park, overwhelmingly the worst for parking in parent-and-child places are the blue badge holders. That's genuine crips as well as the posh people who got one for the granny they've stashed in a home somewhere and visit once a year.
(ubergeekian, Fri 3 Sep 2010, 23:28, closed)

Good
I might well have to try that, what really hacks me off is that there doesn't seem to be an age limit and I have seen 'kids' of 17 get out of a car that has pulled up in a parent space ffs if they aren't in a car seat and can't get out of the car without help then you shouldn't park there.

Also pisses me off the fact there are twenty billion spaces for disabled people that are all empty and about 10 miles from the shop entrance are the three parent spaces.

Here ends this rant and a definite click from another dad of 2 years
(bluehamster, Fri 3 Sep 2010, 12:22, closed)

Thought
I agree with Bluehamster; Ive always wondered why the disabled/parent spaces arent combined?
(kitescreech still here, Sun 5 Sep 2010, 17:30, closed)

As much as I'd like to think it is,
being a parent isn't a disability.
Disabled spaces are closer to the entrance to the disableds don't have far to hobble/wheel etc.

Parent and child spaces are wider so the parents can get their crotchfruit out of the car easier, nothing more.

If you can't handle walking with your child from the carpark to the store, how are you going to be able to walk all around the store with them?
( OneSullenBrit *air sandwiches*, Mon 6 Sep 2010, 1:48, closed)

'don't be a cock about it!' brilliant
(Clerk T Hazarde are all the wine, Fri 3 Sep 2010, 15:03, closed)

Seconded!
I won't bore you with my experiences of this...have clickage instead.
( number5 has been fighting tramps and losing., Fri 3 Sep 2010, 21:31, closed)