Parking

A post on the Facebook page Peter and Jane about people parking in parent and child car park spaces has caused plenty of discussion on social media. With over 4,000 comments and nearly 20,000 shares, this parking issue certainly causes some debate!

The post says (please be advised that you may find some of the language not to your liking):

This is Bill. Bill thinks it’s OK to park in Parent and Child spaces because he’ll ‘only be a few minutes’. Bill thinks his White Male Privilege trumps child safety and making life marginally easier for someone who is struggling. Bill is a knob. Don’t be like Bill.

This is Frances. Frances thinks it’s OK to park in Parent and Child spaces because they never had them in her day and she managed just fine. Frances hankers for the good old days of polio, TB, and rickets. Frances doesn’t see why anyone should have any help she didn’t get. Frances is a twat. Don’t be like Frances.

This is Richard. Richard thinks it’s OK to park in Parent and Child spaces because after all, parents CHOSE to have children, didn’t they, no one MADE them, so why should HE have to walk an extra two metres to ease the burden on a woman struggling to drag a baby and a kamikaze toddler across a car park full of cars driven too fast by wankers like Richard, because that was HER choice. Richard fails to realise that if no one chose to have children, the human race would die out, and there would be no future generation to care for him in his dotage. Richard also does not see any irony in the fact that he only exists on this planet because his mother CHOSE to have him. Richard also thinks they should bring back National Service. Richard is a dick (literally). Don’t be like Richard!

This is Charlotte. Charlotte thinks it is OK to park in a Parent and Child space because after all, her daughter is with her! Charlotte’s daughter is twenty nine. Charlotte thinks she is very clever and very funny. Charlotte is not clever, or funny, Charlotte is a selfish tosspot. Don’t be like Charlotte.

This is Karen. Karen has mobility problems and a blue badge. Karen thinks it is OK to use her blue badge to park in Parent and Child spaces when all the disabled spaces are full. Karen is right, and no one minds her parking there at all, only quite often Karen can’t get a space there either because it’s full of people like Bill, Frances, Richard and Charlotte

This is Louise. Louise is very tired. Louise just needs to buy nappies and milk and some token broccoli so she isn’t judged at the checkout and some chicken nuggets that were her toddler’s favourite yesterday but he will probably hate today. This would be so much easier for Louise if the Parent and Child spaces weren’t full of BMWs that people like Richard park there so they don’t get scratched, because his car (that he CHOSE to buy) is apparently more important than Louise’s son. Louise thinks it means so bloody much to her when she gets a Parent and Child space, even though it’s a really small thing to everyone else who isn’t struggling with a small child. Think of people like Louise and Karen next time before you park like an arsehole.

Laura Kerr, a mum who commented, wrote:

This is Gazza. Gazza has a new BMW of which he is very proud. Gazza parks in a Parent and Child space to ensure he gets plenty of space round him so that lesser mortals can admire his Big Metal Willy. Gazza is worried that there might be a speck of dust on his pride and joy so he gets the duster out.

Mummy cannot find a Parent and Child space, so Mummy has to squeeze into a normal spot and try not to ding the adjoining car as she extracts two-year-old Eric. Gazza gives Mummy a patronising smirk before sauntering off.

Eric is hungry and wants a piece of chocolate. Mummy gives him the chocolate. Eric eats half the chocolate and gets the other half all over his face and hands.

Eric sees Gazza’s nice shiny clean car. There are no other cars about so Mummy asks Eric if he would like to go and look at the shiny car. Eric enthusiastically agrees and goes off to explore it. He has to touch each part to make sure it’s real.

Eric comes back to Mummy with considerably less chocolate on him than before. “The car eated it,” he explains.

Be like Eric. Share your chocolate with Gazza’s car.

Another person that commented was Bryn Bugmuncher. He wrote:

I know someone who was waiting for someone to leave the mother and baby space and when they pulled out a douche nozzle in a black sports car zipped in and went into the shop.

Instead of ramming his car like in Fried Green Tomatoes, she just parked behind him, totally blocking him in.  Then went in and told the man on the customer support desk what she’d done and why and he said:

“Well, take your time, have a free drink in the cafe, be as long as you need and when you are done come back here and we will escort you out in case he’s waiting”

So, she did. Leisurely shop, nice cup of tea, fed the baby and then went back to the desk. Two members of staff came out with her to load her shopping into her car.

The man had apparently just gone in for a packet of fags and was fairly hysterical by this point, shouting and screaming and the staff just laughed at him and told him to go ahead and call the police if he wanted, but they had the footage of him parking in the space with no baby or child in a very clearly marked space.

They’d already told him when he came storming back in that they absolutely would not be calling the owner of the car blocking him to come back as she had every right in their eyes to do what she did and that if there was any damage to her car in any way, they would press charges too.

What do you think? Do you get annoyed by people parking in the wrong bays or is there more things ton worry about in life? Please comment below. Source

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