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I choose to go to the supermarket over having stuff delivered. I like cooking and I quite enjoy food shopping.

Whenever I try and do a shop on line we always end up forgetting stuff.

I sometimes take my 3 year old as well. He quite enjoys it. The parent and child spaces are great because the doors of my z4m are quite long.

integra_man

Parent child spaces are great. Really handy. I have the utmost disdain for people who abuse them. Just like people who abuse spaces for the disabled.

I regularly take our 'brats' to the supermarket. My eldest loves it, the youngest is too young to have a say and it gives the Mrs a chance to either do some housework or put her feet up and get some deserved P&Q while I'm out doing the shopping. I've tried online shopping and can't really get on with it. I can see why many prefer it, but I prefer to choose what I want when it's in front of me. It's also a good opportunity to fill the car up cheaply too (pay at pump of course ).

Supermarkets love parents. Look at how big the kiddie sections are and the plethora of worthless little 'equipment for schools' vouchers they love to foist upon you along with your handful of crappy 'money off' vouchers and 9 receipts. Parents are an easy target for high-margin products. They also buy in haste when the brats are screaming, spending more money on crap they don't need or won't use. It's cradle-to-grave selling and so no surprise that they'll do what they can to make parents feel welcome.

I couldn't care less about the amount of extra space (or care for the car this affords), although it is handy. I don't really care much for my mundane Dad-wagon now. The kids will ruin the inside in time more than any CRV driver is likely to ruin the outside.

I also like the fact that the spaces are near the door. It's safer when you're unloading said brattage. Particularly given that out of the 4 times someone has chosen to drive into me, 3 times it has happened in a supermarket car park when the culprit was either parking badly or distracted looking for spaces and not ahead.

So yeah, I love Parent Child spaces. If you don't, then have kids and join us in the brat-bays, or f@#k off. It isn't exactly a show-stopper when there are none available, and yeah emergencies do happen. But there are few things more annoying than when you see some lazy cnut using one when they don't have kids in tow, and you need one.

Same goes for disabled spaces. That really gets my goat. I was in a restaurant only the other day (not with the kids I should add) and - as I was leaving - saw some inflated-chav and his she-brute bold as brass park their 5-series in a disabled spot and brazenly stroll on in. My other half can never resist and pointed out to them - politely - that it was a disabled space. The she-brute just grunted, and the chav said 'the badge is on the dashboard, go and check if you like' quite confrontationally, which I didn't like. So I said, 'OK mate' and walked over. No badge. So I just stared at the f@#ker and shook my head. He hadn't the balls to extend the conversation further and skulked inside looking sheepish. I could see him looking out of the window at his car worriedly as we left. Hilarious.

arsie

Get the IP rights to that registered quick. Could be the next killer iPhone app. Parking Place Chooser. Which spots all the end of rank, prioritizes them e.g. next to a passenger door is slightly less likely to give you a ding, etc.

Ker-ching

j8mie

I love parent and child parking spaces. They are closer to the door than disabled spaces (because parents need to walk less distance than someone with a physical disability) and allow me to park the S in a much bigger space to avoid the risk of parking dents

Daytona-Dave

Sheep following sheep,

Why these people think they have to have a special place beggars believe, I brought up 3 children there were no "special" parking space's but we still managed and never once found it necessary to slam the door into someone's car, It seems to be a case of the new generation of I want's

cheshire_carper

That sheep point you make Dave is bob on. I will sometimes park my beater in the extreme corners of a car park, spaces all around me, you guessed it, some twat in a transit van will park by me

phil121081

So you don't use things designed to make your life easier? yet you have a car (I assume), why don't you walk everywhere?

I don't have to have a special place to park, but if it's there for me, why not use it? It makes my life easier...

I really cannot get my head around why it's such an issue to use a P&C space or for them to be provided. If they were available when you brought up your children, I'd be willing to wager that you would use them. Why wouldn't you?

Daytona-Dave

I don't have to have a special place to park, but if it's there for me, why not use it? It makes my life easier...


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Is your car the Honda

phil121081

yes

cheshire_carper

I might use them if I had kids but I possibly wouldn't post about it on a public forum in the future :-P