Twice in my regular Sunday night blog I’ve written about parent and child
spaces being used by people on their own.
These are the comments I made:
1.People caught parking in the parent and
child spaces without kids should be forced to do their weekly shop with
teething triplets who haven’t napped.
2.When politely informing a motorist that
the parent and child spaces are for parents with children, they often turn out
to be a weapons-grade c**t.
Both have been met with support and criticism. Those with gripes can be separated into two camps:
A. People With No Kids
Fair enough. You don’t understand what an
absolute pain in the shitpipe it is to try and get a pair of wriggling,
screaming, unaccommodating toddlers out of a car into a space more narrow than
a hamster’s skinny jeans. (N.B. It’s the extra space we crave, not the proximity to
the shop.)
You also won’t understand how severe sleep
deprivation renders previously simple decisions as confusing as Welsh hip-hop.
So I’ll look the other way. It’s not your
fault. You merely don’t appreciate the sheer fucking hassle of it all.
That leads me the second group:
B. People Who Had Kids Years Ago and Therefore Feel Superior to all Parents of Today
This group really boils my piss.
We get it. Things were more difficult back
then. (I can’t imagine being a parent pre-Google, let alone pre-1980. Just imagine trying to cope in an age when
on-demand kids television wasn’t in your arsenal of
coping tactics. Hell on earth.)
Times change. Technology and society moves
on. Things will be easier again in the future. No doubt by 2032 you’ll be able
to safely teleport your kid to a virtual Tellytubby-land for an afternoon while
you neck half a tablet of space-gin and pass out on the sofa.
But just because things have got easier doesn’t mean you have to endlessly bleat on about it.
“WE
never had parent and child spaces and WE survived.”
Please give me a moment so I can put my (cold)
cup of tea down and give you a proper round of applause, you sanctimonious arse
whiff.
Thank god I’ve never met a parent from the
Jurrassic era. Can you imagine how self-righteous those fuckers would be?
“Parents
nowadays want everything on a plate - my arm was bitten off by a sabre tooth
tiger and half my family died of consumption but it didn’t stop me from breast
feeding…”
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| A quick Twitter poll showed an alarming support for direct action. |
Anyway, back to the parent and child space
debate. I really like the idea that Gemma
Brian suggested on my Facebook page:
“We should band together and create a giant 'I'm a tosser – I park in parent and child spaces when I do not have a child with me' sticker and place them lovingly on the front of their car.”
Although my favourite story came from another
(wisely, anonymous) user on my page:
“Hot day, busy Sainsburys car park, just returning to the car with 2 smalls when a rather large, muscly bloke aged about 30 in a beautiful white, open top Merc pulled REALLY quickly into the P&C space next to me with no kids in the car. As he got out of the car, I looked up at him - mainly because of the speed that he'd just arrived, and he snarled "What the fu@k do you think you're looking at" so I said nothing and went back to strapping the 3yo into the car as bloke went into the shop.
As I was strapping the 1yo in, he squeezed his face together and massively filled his nappy - proper poo-splosion. I realised that I couldn't leave him like that, so took him out and laid him down in the boot of the car for a change. Unfortunately, I had no nappy bags with me, so managed to barely tape it together using it's own tapes, but it was a close run thing, and weighed about 3lbs - God knows what he had been eating.
After strapping him into his seat, I realised that I couldn't leave the nappy in my boot to roll around, so went in search of a bin. As I passed the open topped Merc, I just couldn't help myself and gently rolled the slightly oozing nappy into the driver's seat - which neatly unwrapped itself as it rolled downwards. I would have loved to wait around to see the reaction, but with kids around I didn't want to put them in any danger, so decided to leave before he got back.”
Total fucking poetry, don’t you think?
So listen up and listen good. If you
continue to park in those spaces we will retaliate in our own special way.
Plus we’ve only had two hours sleep so not only will we unleash hell but it will
probably make absolutely zero sense.
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