Those parks make me cringe purely because people are getting their kids in and out of the car and are perhaps not so careful about doors being banged etc. I have seen it and have had it happen to me while I was IN my car so I avoid them like the plague.
The parks at Woolworths are for 'Parents with prams and expectant mothers'.
This was great when pregnant as then I would always remember where I parked my car
I find even with the parent parks I still can't get my buggy beside the car so I tend to park at the end of a row instead where there is more space beside the car
I park in them if I have Jackson. The ones are westfield (Well, the first ones they made) are really wide so I love having enough room to get his buggy out.
I get more annoyed with the mothers at school who cant park! Every day I count about 5-6 potential parks that have gone to waste because they park OVER the white lines in a diagonal park. Used to really drive me batty when I couldnt get Jackson out of the car because someone has parked too close to me. Grrr!!!
They're usually wider where I shop - except Foodtown but they have theirs nearer the door and before the speedbumps so you're not having to navigate those.
Saying that people managed in the 'good old days' is not really comparing apples with apples. The cars are wider, there are more of them so you often have to walk for ages from the park you do get, car parks are narrower and prams are wider so all up I think they're a jolly good idea.
Personally I get grumpy with people who take them and don't have children but only if I see them pull in and they obviously don't have any.
Last time I was at the supermarket and it was raining and cold and all the Parent parks were taken but one (and most of those didn't look like they had kids) and then this big guy pulled in to the last one with no child. So I pulled up alongside and said - 'Buddy I have a baby and I'm pregnant and I could really have used that park'
He looked a bit shamefaced but told me he was picking up his kid. I'm sorry but a) I didn't believe him for a second and b) if his kid can be picked up from a supermarket then he doesn't need a parent and pram park IMO. Oh and I ended up at the far end of the supermarket carpark which took ages to get to the cover of the shop.
But definitely parking in those is nowhere near as bad as parking in disabled parks - those people have to pay for their permits so it is really really bad when able bodied people take the parks.
We had a good one yesterday at Sylvia Park. All the disabled and parents carparks are by the lifts and all were empty except one where the disabled person parked in the parents one... Aren't they pretty grumpy about "normals" taking their carpark and then they use a parents one that is literally 4 or 5 steps away fom the disabled!! talk about double standards..
I think parents carparks are for babies that can't walk yet IMO so need to use a pram but if I'm going to carry Tayla I just use a normal carpark
I find them really handy having to deal with Maddi in a pram and Keira walking along side. Trusting a 3 year old to hold on to the Pram while walking though a busy car park is a little scary.
I think once the baby is walking they are a lot harder to control in a carpark than a baby in a pram.
Also another time they are really handy is when I have to pop in the supermarket just to grab a few things, I can leave the girls in the car (with DH of course) and can still see them and makes the trip a whole lot quicker.
We had a good one yesterday at Sylvia Park. All the disabled and parents carparks are by the lifts and all were empty except one where the disabled person parked in the parents one... Aren't they pretty grumpy about "normals" taking their carpark and then they use a parents one that is literally 4 or 5 steps away fom the disabled!! talk about double standards..
yeah but to be fair they may not have realised. i dont know how many times i have parked in a normal park cause i thought the parents ones were disabled ones... i see the yellow pic but dont really see what it is and assume it is a disabled park. And there are so few disabled carparks around i wouldnt care at all if a disabled person parked in a parents park.
there is a big brohaha going on at the moment in the town i used to live in in the UK over this, when a woman parked in a mother and child space with her 9 year old son and got a 70 pound fine (about $200)
Grr, I hate it when people use these parks when they have no reason to. I haven't had cause to use one yet.
When mine and my friends DH's found out we were pregnant they were both excited to be able to use these parks in the future . Kinda pathetic, but cute in a guy way.
I wonder why they don't put some of the parent parks further from the entrance and then those with only one child in a pram could easily use those ones without danger. Personally, I prefer to park at a distance coz then ya don't have as many people parking next to you! And don't have the 'stalkers' waiting for the carparks coz they are too lazy to walk the distance.
yeah but to be fair they may not have realised. i dont know how many times i have parked in a normal park cause i thought the parents ones were disabled ones... i see the yellow pic but dont really see what it is and assume it is a disabled park. And there are so few disabled carparks around i wouldnt care at all if a disabled person parked in a parents park.
Yeah your right I was suppose to add that the same colours of logos mean you can accidently go into the wrong park but I already hit post and was too lazy to edit or reply again lol hehe
Yip annoying when people steal them! My local supermarket has two only. I challenged a lady one day who told me she was pregnant (she looked about 50 thats why I challenged her). I have found that not many places here in Dunedin have them - none in any carparking buildings - I wrote to one of the carpark buildings - but have never had a reply - guess us mums don't count!
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talk about double standards..
Lanata wrote:
. Kinda pathetic, but cute in a guy way.
Oct 11
