JUST BECAUSE YOU HAD A BABY ONCE

Haha yes, I agree. Although I don't see much abuse of those parks arounds here thankfully.

I've never used a baby carpark when I wasn't travelling with my baby... But when I was pregnant, I really wished they had "expectant mum" carparks. Especially at the mall on a Saturday morning!!!

ok i will NOW share what DH did at the hamilton ohbaby meet up....

he left us to go into town and when he came back he just missed out on a PWP park....but got a normal one next to it....anyways the MAN who parked in PWP right in front of him had no child etc - so DH told him he was parked in a PWP ....

well the guy had a disability park card...and told DH that there were none left so he would park in a PWP park if you please!!!...OMG DH ripped into him and told him that if there were no Dis parks does that mean parents can park there - NO!!! so why should he park in PWP...

umm.... the guy called DH an A##H***.....

I told DH off (kinda) but then also agreed with him - DH uses his size to intimidate but then the guy should not get to park in PWP just cause he is disabled surely???? I was pretty annoyed too esp as it probably meant one of our mums missed out on a carpark (right outside the entry to the mall!)...PWP are not a disable carpark overflow!!!!



Edited by Bombshell

i dont like people parking in disabled parks who arent disabled but really dont mind if others park in parents with prams parks...it's only a courtesy park not a given or law that only parents with prams can park there... on the other hand tho people should be more aware and not park there if they dont need to or just so they dont get wet or something silly.

i wish all carparks were wider and safer for me to get the kids out of the car...

mummy_becks wrote: Or if you are pregnant. Yes you will have a baby soon enough but not at the moment. That one got me today at the supermarket, pouring with rain and I had to car my baby n a carseat all the to the door when I could of parked there and not get him wet.

I disagree. I concur with Katherine et al, it would have been so nice not to have to drag my hugely pregnant self from one end of the carpark to another when the busy malls were enough of a challenge as is.

the problem with expectant mums parking is that then you get mums of all stages of pregnancy wanting to use them (not all but some no doubt) and then you would get those that dont look pregnant yet getting "the look".
they could have "bump" parking...

gandt wrote: i dont like people parking in disabled parks who arent disabled but really dont mind if others park in parents with prams parks...it's only a courtesy park not a given or law that only parents with prams can park there... on the other hand tho people should be more aware and not park there if they dont need to or just so they dont get wet or something silly. i wish all carparks were wider and safer for me to get the kids out of the car...

Ah yes & totally agree with having the wider carparks.
Very frustrating when some dork parks so close that my belly & i cant get into our car

nuttymama wrote: There is nothing worse than having to walk in the rain with a young bubs to then find out the parks that were meant for you have been taken up by people being lazy. Abby is coming on two and a half now and we never use those parks anymore, I just figure there are people with much younger children or more than one young child that are a little more deserving.

Yep! I know I shouldn't, but I can't help but snigger to myself when I see women out doing the grocery shopping with one baby and hubby in tow. I find it amusing that they think shopping with ONE baby is too much to handle on their own when I do it with three kids on my own all the time. But when they use the P & C parking I get a bit annoyed coz surely between the two of them they can cope. Because I need a twin trolley and can't carry both babies at the same time I have to leave them in the car while I go and get a trolley. I can see them the whole time, but it's a PITA when I have to park waaay over the other side of the carpark and trek over to get a trolley and back to get the gremlins.

mummy_becks wrote: And the other one that gets me with the parks is people parking in them and then leaving their children in the car. I pulled into the one at Countdown yesterday and next to me in the parent park was a baby (in a capsule), a child in a carseat and what looked to be a child about 5-8 sitting in the back (probably looking after them all).

Ahhh... guilty! Only when I'm getting one or two specific things, and it would take more time to get the boys out of their carseats and put them into a trolley, then take them out at the end and put them back into their carseats than it takes me to run into the supermarket! I know its a lazy habit, and the only reason I do it when Kiya is in the car is because Ohakune is such a small place...