I was in Galway today and was looking for a family parking spot as we have 2 kids and need the extra space for getting them in and out of the child seats.
There was one spot left but some young guy decided to park there and head off into town. There were loads of other normal spaces that his skoda fabia would of fit into.
And it’s a regular occurrence, people park in them all the time at Tesco and other places and have no kids. If i go to the shop in our 7 seater and I’m on my own, I’ll always park in a normal spot.
Am I over reacting or does anyone else agree? To me it is the same as parking in disabled spaces with a blue pass.
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Did you park in an abandoned warehouse with a vending machine??
> Am I over reacting or does anyone else agree?
You are overreacting.
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> To me it is the same as parking in disabled spaces with a blue pass.
Hard disagree.
What’s with the random empty vending machine?
Its not the same as people using disabled spots at all. Not even close really. Your children are your life choices. People don’t choose to become disabled. I wouldn’t take a family spot myself, but you even said there was loads of other spots, so you could just park there.
Isn’t it perfectly possible that this guy was utterly unaware of the signage there? If it’s to be enforced, even just through public agreement, maybe make them in *red* at least, which we’re conditioned to notice in such contexts. The place looks like an abandoned industrial premises, so maybe his brain just never clocked the signs as being specific to a car park. OP is being a bit Mumsnetty I think. It might all have been a mistake.
Your getting hopped on OP, but I see your point, not used for their intended purpose.
It annoys me when I see it, but I don’t say anything coz I’ve no vested interest, my kids are adult sized now.
Maybe mention it in the shop and they might make spot checks, but tbh, I doubt it.
How do you know they had no kids? The might have kids that don’t require kids seats.
Driver was a family, single person families exist.
Maybe they’re pregnant?
You won’t get support on Reddit for this.
You’d wonder however did people ever manage without P+C spaces which only came on the scene in what, the mid 00s?
family parking spot isnt a legally defined parking space , like the disability spot is ( by this i mean their no regulation unlike disability parking https://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/2022/si/427/made/en/print)
while its unfortunate you couldn’t get one one , your not entitled to one
Totally agree. I see the some constantly in Dublin.
There are too many entitled dipshits on the road. Parental spaces exist for a reason. It’s for the safety of young kids. The same bolloxes who ICE EV charge points, probably.
If you apply the American description then life begins in the ball sack so he was carrying several million kids..
I’d say this is annoying but you never know, maybe that guy was going to collect his kids or just never saw the sign.
A 7 seater for 2 kids seems overkill though, assuming they don’t have additional needs.
Because they don’t have to consider or care for any of your life choices. It’s not their problem you have kids.
I guarantee when you do park your car, you don’t consider all the people who may need a spot more than you.
Because anyone is perfectly entitled to park in those spaces. They have no legal standing and is just marketing shite from stores.
Since people just don’t give a shit about your life choices I guess.
Sometimes people with small cars have kids too.
My mother does this even tho I tell her to stop
Her elderly aunt had one of those disabled parking permits so my mother used to use it then her aunt passed away in 2019 god rest her soul
My mother continued to use that parking permit for about 2 years after her aunt died until I finally cut it up with scissors one day because it was only a matter of time before she was going to get a whopping big fine