Originally Posted by Russ (Post 34923775)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/north_east/8402257.stm

I thought they were ok'd to use Parent and child bays?

Originally Posted by Pierre (Post 34923801)

You're pregnant, not disabled.

More claptrap, and who will decide who is "heavily" pregnant????

Will women have to carry around a certificate with their due date on?????

If you're that heavily pregant that you can't walk across the supermarket carpark, let alone walk around the supermarket itself, or you're that big you can't get in or out of the car - then maybe you shouldn't be out shopping.

God knows what the older generation think, my mum pregnant and with a toddler and a 6yr old would get the bus, and carry the weekly shop.

Originally Posted by superbiatch (Post 34923805)

I'm inclined to agree to a point, but why do those with kids deserve a parking space more than a heavily pregnant woman? I've never understood the whole parental parking thing.

My mum was the same with us, 4 kiddies, 10 bags of shopping on a bus :juggle:

Originally Posted by superbiatch (Post 34923805)

I'm inclined to agree to a point, but why do those with kids deserve a parking space more than a heavily pregnant woman? I've never understood the whole parental parking thing.

Originally Posted by frogstamper (Post 34923888)

If supermarkets do insist on offering preferential parking, surely the elderly are more deserving of this convenient parking than a young woman and child???

Originally Posted by Jules (Post 34923880)

Never heard of anything so daft, it is not a illness!

Originally Posted by Pierre (Post 34923801)

You're pregnant, not disabled.

More claptrap, and who will decide who is "heavily" pregnant????

Will women have to carry around a certificate with their due date on?????

Originally Posted by dev (Post 34923920)

The parent+kids spaces are usually wider to allow parents to put young kids in seats and in a normal space there isn't always room to do it without difficulty. I do however agree that there is no need to put them close to the shop.

If the spaces weren't the closest to the shop, I doubt people without kids would park in them as there would be no advantage. As someone has pointed out, if the child can't walk the distance from space to shop they aren't going to survive going around the shop either.

Originally Posted by Chris (Post 34923972)

They already do. It's called MAT1B, and its main purpose is to ensure they get free prescriptions and dental treatment. This proposed scheme would presumably work as a simple extension of that already well-tested system.



I suspect in that case that you don't have any kids, or at the very least that any children you do have were the result of blessedly straightforward pregnancies.

I really can't be bothered rebutting your ignorant nonsense at any length - all I will do is post a link that explains a particularly nasty late-pregnancy condition called Pubis Smphasis Dysfunction (or Pelvic Girdle Pain), and request that you read and understand the implications of it before spouting off any further on this subject.

Mrs T, incidentally, suffered with this during two of her three pregnancies, and in both cases for several months afterwards. And sometimes family life means you still have to do the shopping, even when it really, really hurts.

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EDIT

Mrs T has offered to tie your ankles to a pair of HGVs, each of which is travelling in opposite directions, and then arrange for a donkey to kick you in the nads, the better to help you understand what PGP feels like. ;)