ASDA Parent & Child parking - fine for misuse

So tell me SB118, why do you need to take your children to the supermarket with you? no one (apart from johnycoupe) has yet given me a valid reason why apart from "We're parents, our kids are great and it's our god given right to take them to a supermarket, pub or wherever we want!".
 
Wicksta said:
no one (apart from johnycoupe) has yet given me a valid reason why apart from "We're parents, our kids are great and it's our god given right to take them to a supermarket, pub or wherever we want!".
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Surely as parents or individuals we have the right to do what we please when we please, no?

While that maybe an inconvenient truth for some that's just the reality of the situation!
 
Nobody "HAS" to do anything (well apart from obey the law), if a parent chooses to take their children shopping that it's their choice, simple as!

Unless people are proposing some kind of curfew on children going out in a public place during the day so not to somehow "inconvenience" other people.
 
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Wicksta said:
So tell me SB118, why do you need to take your children to the supermarket with you? no one (apart from johnycoupe) has yet given me a valid reason why apart from "We're parents, our kids are great and it's our god given right to take them to a supermarket, pub or wherever we want!".
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Put simply. I want to go to Supermarket/Pub/Wherever and I have children. I cannot leave them at home alone, so they come with me.

If having to park 30 yards further from the supermarket or listen to the occasional child have a paddy in the supermarket is the most tiresome thing you have to deal with, then you don't really have a bad life and should lighten up a bit and get off your high horse. It is indeed a horse of many hands!
 
You parent lot talk like you invented parenthood yesterday on your lunchbreak. In your childhood your parents could do shopping and feed you without turning it into make belief "quality time" with you wandering around shopping market aisles screaming your lungs out, pushing trolleys into people and dripping your snot all over fruit section. Most of you, I would imagine, were also taught respect to someone else's property - I for one don't ever recall opening my father's car doors by kicking it and seeing how far will it go into next car. We all were children once and we all somehow coped without sunday supermarket marathon. Why can't the same be expected of you - your generation.

And why, going back to original topic, for crying out loud, should anyone respect your special bays in front, like having a child was some sort of disability?
 
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I don't mind children in supermarkets when they are well behaved. But having worked in a smallish supermarket some of the kids are very annoying. Playing tig round the shop, not paying attanetion to what they are doing (bumping into stuff). However, they are kids.

I do hate pushchairs though. Not so much in the bigger supermarkets but places like spar where people bring in their babies in a double pushchair that takes up the whole aisle (spelling?) and totally blocks the path of people. The same goes for people who decide that right in the middle of the shop in the busiest place (with a trolley each) is the time to talk to someone they seen last week(or don't like enough to stay in proper contact or call) and will talk for 20 minutes.
 
v0n said:
And why, going back to original topic, for crying out loud, should anyone respect your special bays in front, like having a child was some sort of disability?
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They go in front of the supermarket so

- there is less chance of child running in front of car
- child has to walk less (which is a bonus when you are just learning)

they are wider because

- Modern child seats needs doors open wide to get them in (0-1 years)
- Parents can access car to ensure that child seats are strapped in correctly (1-5 years)
 
[TW]Fox;10895385 said:
And he is asking why they make that choice :confused:

Seems like a reasonably straightforward question to me?
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Personally I LIKE to take my little one along.
Push him around the aisles and he's either chilled out asleep, or looking around with interest at all the bright colours (he is only 6 weeks old).
As I don't see shopping as necessarily having to be a horrible experience, I like to chill out whilst doing it, hence the stop for coffee on some days.

As such, for someone to suggest that I shouldn't be doing I happen to like doing, just because someone has no semblance of self control seems to be a little out of order.
 
Royal Fleet said:
They go in front of the supermarket so

- there is less chance of child running in front of car
- child has to walk less (which is a bonus when you are just learning)
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In all the supermarkets I've ever used they've still got to cross one of the carparks main routes to reach the supermarket anyway, so the safety thing isn't really that valid.
 
v0n said:
You parent lot talk like you invented parenthood yesterday on your lunchbreak. In your childhood your parents could do shopping and feed you without turning it into make belief "quality time" with you wandering around shopping market isles screaming your lungs out, pushing trolleys into people and dripping your snot all over fruit section. Most of you, I would imagine, were also taught respect to someone else's property - I for one don't ever recall opening my father's car doors by kicking it and seeing how far will it go into next car. We all were children once and we all somehow coped without sunday supermarket marathon. Why can't the same be expected of you - your generation.
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Way to generalise there ;) can't believe you didn't get something in about single mothers.
 
Sorry, but having kids should not give you any rights above somebody without kids, especially when those without are paying higher taxes to help pay for a large majority of the little "loves"!!!

You choose to have kids; you should be the Only ones paying for them, kids today are disrespectful, ignorant brats, mainly becuase the Family unit is not what it used to be, with parents working long hours and generally not giving a damn what their kids get upto.

So i can understand why somebody without kids would find it hard to be swammped with the rug rats wherever you go!
 
[TW]Fox;10895385 said:
And he is asking why they make that choice :confused:
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What does it matter? Whether they made the choice because of convenience or for any other reason, it doesn't matter and is no-one else's business but their own.

V0n, how many people whinge about dents in there cars from mums in supermarkets? The wider spaces are helping to reduce the chances of other cars being damaged. The location of the spaces I couldn't care less about personally, but I would imagine they are placed close to the store front to minimise the danger of small children walking/running through a busy car park.
 
I've noticed a tendancy to gloss over any point someone makes that isnt pro parent. Is this something you get taught in ante natal classes?
 
Wicksta said:
So tell me SB118, why do you need to take your children to the supermarket with you? no one (apart from johnycoupe) has yet given me a valid reason why apart from "We're parents, our kids are great and it's our god given right to take them to a supermarket, pub or wherever we want!".
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I leave for work at 7.30am and get home at 5.30pm, I have an evening meal then play with my daughter before giving her a bath and off to bed at 7.00pmish. When the weekend comes I want to spend as much time as possible with her, if we need to go to the supermarket then that is what we will do. We can usually find much better things to do over a weekend but if we need to shop we will shop as a family unit, because time together as a family unit is the most important thing in my life.

Back OT, I usually try to find a parent and child parking space, but they are usually full so park elsewhere. I have put a request in to Sainsbury that they allocate parent and child spaces away from the main entrance, I don't use them to be closer to the entrance I use them because it is much easier to have your door open fully to put your child into the car seat. Now when I am forced to not park in the parent and child space I usually try to find a nice BMW parked alone in a far corner, park close to it then bash it with my door whilst securing my child.
 
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