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I know they have CCTV to monitor if you exceed 2 hours stay or something like that but does anyone actually monitor who parks in the disabled and parent & child spaces? The reason I ask is because I went to Tesco earlier and as I was passing by the parent and child bays a woman had just parked in one of them and was coming out of her car with no child/baby. As I walked past her car there was no car seat in there either. There were no other parent and child bays available and I thought this was so selfish of the woman.
Luckily my dad was looking after little Tiggs so I parked somewhere near the back of the car park where there was a few spaces where this woman could have parked.
Luckily my dad was looking after little Tiggs so I parked somewhere near the back of the car park where there was a few spaces where this woman could have parked.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I think one of the reasons why P & C spaces are near to the store is to minimise the distance parents have to hike trollies, babes in arms, pushchiars, etc. It also minimises the distances tots have to walk, which again minimises the potential for that fatal moment of distraction where a little one gets separated, and can run across the traffic lanes.
On a separate note, our local Sainsburys has a cool deterrent for anyone parking in a Disabled bay - the stick a large poster on the driver's window confirming in massive black letters that the driver parked in a Disabled spacec without an appropriate blue badge. The poster is stucj on with seriously sticky glue, getting it off is a nightmare, takes ages, and gives the drive plenty of time to consider their selfish and inappropriate behaviour.
And yes, I hold my hands up and confess that i speak from personlal experience - for which I am duly ashemed and make no escuse - but I have never done it since, it was about fifteen years ago!!
On a separate note, our local Sainsburys has a cool deterrent for anyone parking in a Disabled bay - the stick a large poster on the driver's window confirming in massive black letters that the driver parked in a Disabled spacec without an appropriate blue badge. The poster is stucj on with seriously sticky glue, getting it off is a nightmare, takes ages, and gives the drive plenty of time to consider their selfish and inappropriate behaviour.
And yes, I hold my hands up and confess that i speak from personlal experience - for which I am duly ashemed and make no escuse - but I have never done it since, it was about fifteen years ago!!
Just as a matter of interest, how old does a person have to be before they are not regarded as a child any more? The reason I'm asking is that my late mother-in-law sometimes went to Tesco with me and my wife, and I used to joke that we could - legally - park in a parent and child space. But we never had the brass face to do it!
they could get sued for doing that - we had it happen at work. Someone had to leave work in a hurry and came out to find one of those glue-posters on his screen. He took a lot of it off but had to get going urgently - he was involved in a prang on the way back home and it was deemed that the action of the over-zealous head security guard that claimed he was ex-SAS (probably blanket keeper), was a significant contributory factor.
To be fair McMouse, once it became clear that removal was a matter for detergent and scraper, i simply wound the window down and drove home, and dealt with it there.
I think sticking gluey posters on windscreens is not a good idea - but the way to avoid them is to follow the rules, so no complaint from here!
I think sticking gluey posters on windscreens is not a good idea - but the way to avoid them is to follow the rules, so no complaint from here!
DTcrosswordfan - the responsibility of driving a roadworthy vehicle rests with the drive - so if he drove without clear visibility, he'd have a hard job convincing the authorities that he was not at fault.
i know that sounds sanctimonious - but in view of my previous posts, believe me it is not meant to - i am simply pointing out the legal aspect.
i know that sounds sanctimonious - but in view of my previous posts, believe me it is not meant to - i am simply pointing out the legal aspect.