It does annoy me when I see people using the child car parking spots at our local supermarket. There’s a wide range of people who do this, including some that ought to know better like disabled people, who bypass disabled slots to use these spaces, or parents without their kids (it’s like I’ve got a car seat in the back, so that counts right?).
Today I approached a chap who had parked his car in a child slot. He had no children in the car, hell he didn’t even have a car seat. I confronted him about it (politely, but assertively) and couldn’t believe the justifications he tried to come up with:
- ‘I have children. ‘ He seems surprised when I said ‘So what, they aren’t with you?’ Does he think anyone with children can park there? The supermarket better mark up a lot more slots quick.
- ‘I’m only going to be 5 minutes.’ So it’s okay to behave badly if you are only going to do it for 5 minutes, is it? I can just imagine a barrister taking a defendant to pieces, who tried that one in court.
He also said something that I guess was a jibe at me, but it made no sense, but he said it twice so he must have thought it was a good line. ‘What are you going to do sleep in it?’ Given that I was walking into the store with my trolley, I was struggling to see his logic.
I told him that I didn’t think he was a nice man and that he should be ashamed of himself for depriving other people, who needed the spot, of using the place. I don’t suppose it will make any difference, unless he doesn’t want to risk being taken loudly to task in a supermarket again.
Ohhhh this is a massive bug bear of mine, I often have the car seat in my car but wouldn’t ever dream of parking in a parent child space, or a disabled space, so many oldies park in the parent spaces at the supermarket near me & also on the hatched spaces so it makes reversing out of the parent spaces so difficult.