Comments on: Parents With Prams Parking

By: Minerva

Minerva — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 07:43:20 +0000

While I agree that the initial post seems a little harsh, I want to clarify that it’s not about having a pram. It’s about being able to open the car door wide enough to maneouvre a baby or a toddler out of their car seat (which probably weren’t compulsory when 2ripts children were toddlers and no doubt are ‘stronger’ for having had to lie on the floor on the car).

I rarely park in the ‘parents with prams’ spots but there was an incidence a few months ago when some moron parked two inches from the passenger side of my car and I had to climb across the back seat to get the baby out. New mothers are particularly susceptible to back injuries because of the hormonal changes their body experiences during pregnancy and as I was also sporting a broken rib at the time, I definately would have appreciated a ‘parents with pram’ spot had there been one available. Which of course there wasn’t because Dave was parked in it. What a wonderful father and husband he’s not going to make some day.

By: Lexi

Lexi — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 13:17:02 +0000

I think you should all get a life, what a pathetic thing to argue about. There are children dying every second of every day who have never even seen a supermarket let alone a carpark. Have a little dignity. Be grateful you have so much. If this is all you all have to moan about then it’s very sad indeed.

By: vlado

vlado — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 10:14:36 +0000

glyn… surely, just b/c YOU don’t understand something doesn’t make it wrong. Quantum physics for example, flight of heavier than air vehicles, or perhaps, in your case, tying shoelaces… just because you can’t comprehend something doesn’t make it okay for you to ignore it.

The reasons parent-with-prams spots exist is not your concern, and nobody has asked you if you think they’re existence is justified. Fact of the matter is, they exist, and ANYONE that uses them when they’re not entitled to, is a selfish-bastard. Plain and simple.

RE: number of spots… there are many-many more non-PWP spots than there are PWP spots, so there should be no problem finding one of those… sure you might have to walk a little further, but you could probably afford to lose a little fat… FROM YOUR HEAD!

By: glyn

glyn — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 00:27:07 +0000

I totally agree with 2ript. I will continue to park in Parents with Prams parking spots as I cannot understand the necessity for these parking spots. I have two grown children and I would never have expected to have a parking spot near an entrance JUST because I had a pram. So what? Parents with Prams parking sport far outnumber Disabled parking spots. I just don’t understand!!!!

By: Rose

Rose — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 01:50:07 +0000

OOPS! I think that was me. Sorry..I thought it was a 15 minute parking area didn’t see the pram signs – never shopped there before and haven’t gone back – people in the carpark yelled a me – didn’t realise why! until I was half way home – I thought I was being yelled at for over-staying my time limit therefore my response “who cares”.
I had driven in from the bright light of a sunny day (if I remember correctly) into a dimly lit car park with poor signage.
Perhaps your anger is misdirected and should be vented at the thoughtless people who design the carparks in the first place, the people who do not have any consideration for their shoppers. People like you and I unload a bucket load of money at these centres on a regular basis and are not provided with the basics of having a place to park regardless of whether one has a pram or not. Some spaces are so narrow these days that if you park large cars e.g. 4wd’s or a large family car next to one another you cannot open the doors!! please what are they thinking!! One’s car is part of the shopping experience, the majority of us need a car to get there and take our purchases home. These limited resources (car spaces) provided by the shopping centres are reducing shoppers to a behaviour similar to a bunch of seagulls fighting over a morsel of food because of their greed and to maximise their profits. Therefore I suggest you target the appropriate people and that way you could make things change and we would all have car parking spaces, By the way, I have raised three children and some of the time I did it on my own and never had the benefit of specific car spaces so don’t be so ‘precious’ – it’s only a coloured line on the ground – and it’s not against the law