Parking next to car while someone is loading kids

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Was just out at a shopping center with our youngest, who is a baby. I was loading her back into the car when someone decided they wanted to park in the empty spot next to us. I already had the door open and you could clearly see the stroller parked near the trunk. This lady seemed intent on parking in the spot so I folded in my door enough to let her pull in, then we back to loading. Next thing I know, she's honking angrily at me. She wants to straighten out her car more? I wouldn't mind but she had such a nasty look on her face. She's the one that parked there!

Needed to vent...

When we had kids that age, I gave up hurrying for people waiting for me. If you choose to park next to a parent strapping in young kids, you deserve to wait.

[Anonymous]

She was an old lady, right? So she probably has no idea that you need to strap a kid in. Car seats are a relatively new thing. She probably thought when you closed your door you were done.

She should have been more patient but you should be open minded enough to realize people who do not have young kids really do not understand what it is like to have them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:you don't own the parking lot. I hate when people with young kids think the world needs to revolve around them.

Agree.

This is laughable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not sure where this started, but I didn't intentionally move slow. I moved as fast as I could. I even tucked my door in, stopped, and tried to let her park, while my kid was still in the stroller. The world doesn't revolve around me, but it seems like common courtesy was make someone wait. There was a few spots in the row right behind us.

It's weird how people fill in details, but that is the price for venting on the internet.

Lol yep.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Was just out at a shopping center with our youngest, who is a baby. I was loading her back into the car when someone decided they wanted to park in the empty spot next to us. I already had the door open and you could clearly see the stroller parked near the trunk. This lady seemed intent on parking in the spot so I folded in my door enough to let her pull in, then we back to loading. Next thing I know, she's honking angrily at me. She wants to straighten out her car more? I wouldn't mind but she had such a nasty look on her face. She's the one that parked there!

Needed to vent...

When we had kids that age, I gave up hurrying for people waiting for me. If you choose to park next to a parent strapping in young kids, you deserve to wait.

+1. If you somehow manage to exist in this day and age and not realize bag when you see a person with a stroller at their car, they will need to take the child out of the stroller, then strap them into a car seat (which will be in the backseat), then put the stroller in the car...you're an idiot. And seriously lacking in both intelligence and common sense. If you choose to go for the spot next to them, you wait. Patiently. That's how it works.

I tend to avoid parking next to people who are loading up their kids for this very reason; I know it will take an extra couple of minutes. If that means taking another lap and parking farther out from the store...great! I'm able-bodied, not inherently lazy, and always up to fit a few extra steps in. But then again, there are a lot of LAZY people out there these days. And I agree; to the point that some people may not be able-bodied...those are the ones who more than anything should be very familiar with the idea of needing more space and taking an extra minute.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Everyone is entitled to a few minutes to get their car loaded up. Wait patiently if you want that spot so bad. Youre fine OP

+1

Some people are fast, some are slow. Some have kids, some don't. That's life.

+1

If there are other spots, I avoid parking next to spots where where people (young, old and in between) are loading or unloading. If not, I wait. Either way, it's just not that big of a deal but don't honk when you are 3 feet from someone's face just because you want them to hurry up.

Exactly. This isn't about car seats or young kids, it's about basic courtesy. If there are plenty of other spots, why do people insist on parking right next to someone who is loading stuff or people into their car. If it's the only spot it isn't the end of the world to wait 30 seconds until the person is finished. People seem to have lost all sense of basic manners these days.

Courtesy goes both ways - OP why would you endanger your child that way? Just because posters don’t agree with you doesn’t mean they are wrong. Even Jeff knows that. You need to grow up and accept that not everyone caters to you, OP.

[Anonymous]

I try to avoid parking next to someone in this situation, but occasionally it's unavoidable (i.e. i've been looking for a spot for awhile and can't see any others.) In that case, though, I'd wait until you were done and then pull in. But I would also expect you not to expect to back out right away if I had to pull back out and re-center the car. (i'd give you the courtesy of waiting for you, but expect the courtesy back.) I'd also hope that you would be efficient - some people either don't seem to realize people are waiting or they passive-aggressively take their sweet time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:you don't own the parking lot. I hate when people with young kids think the world needs to revolve around them.

Agree.

This is laughable.

Completely laughable.

Yeah, the older woman could have been more patient, but whatevs.

The people with young children get over it, but boy are they insuffereable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I try to avoid parking next to someone in this situation, but occasionally it's unavoidable (i.e. i've been looking for a spot for awhile and can't see any others.) In that case, though, I'd wait until you were done and then pull in. But I would also expect you not to expect to back out right away if I had to pull back out and re-center the car. (i'd give you the courtesy of waiting for you, but expect the courtesy back.) I'd also hope that you would be efficient - some people either don't seem to realize people are waiting or they passive-aggressively take their sweet time.

X10000

OP doesn’t seem to like that there are many posters who believe there is inherent danger in her behaviors, and the PPs who think they are “helping” OP only prove our case.

As other PP stated, you don’t own the parking lot, OP, like it or not - ypu don’t make the rules. Your behavior tells us you endanger your child in many ways, potentially.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:you don't own the parking lot. I hate when people with young kids think the world needs to revolve around them.

Agree.

This is laughable.

Completely laughable.

Yeah, the older woman could have been more patient, but whatevs.

The people with young children get over it, but boy are they insuffereable.

+1

How do they manage?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:you don't own the parking lot. I hate when people with young kids think the world needs to revolve around them.

Yeah, it's such a f***ing hardship to wait a few seconds until everyone's out of the way.

Jerk.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Was just out at a shopping center with our youngest, who is a baby. I was loading her back into the car when someone decided they wanted to park in the empty spot next to us. I already had the door open and you could clearly see the stroller parked near the trunk. This lady seemed intent on parking in the spot so I folded in my door enough to let her pull in, then we back to loading. Next thing I know, she's honking angrily at me. She wants to straighten out her car more? I wouldn't mind but she had such a nasty look on her face. She's the one that parked there!

Needed to vent...

When we had kids that age, I gave up hurrying for people waiting for me. If you choose to park next to a parent strapping in young kids, you deserve to wait.

This. If you honk or hover too close, I will make sure I take the time to get each kids straps just right, open snacks, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:you don't own the parking lot. I hate when people with young kids think the world needs to revolve around them.

This! You chose to have kids. Not my problem.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We were at Tysons early last weekend and had parked about 20 spots away from the entrance when the garage was nearly empty. A car was tracking us on our walk back, looking for a spot. We packed our kids into the car as quickly as we could, but when we popped the trunk to wheel the stroller back and put it in, the driver got all exasperated and threw up his hands like 'COME ON'. All of this when the back half of the parking garage was completely open! In the time he waited he could have parked and walked into the mall already!

I'm just convinced people are lazy a-holes.

I would just take my sweet time in that case! Or another thing I've done... walked back into the store like I forgot something! lol!

Glad to see you modeling mature behavior for your kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I try to avoid parking next to someone in this situation, but occasionally it's unavoidable (i.e. i've been looking for a spot for awhile and can't see any others.) In that case, though, I'd wait until you were done and then pull in. But I would also expect you not to expect to back out right away if I had to pull back out and re-center the car. (i'd give you the courtesy of waiting for you, but expect the courtesy back.) I'd also hope that you would be efficient - some people either don't seem to realize people are waiting or they passive-aggressively take their sweet time.

X10000

OP doesn’t seem to like that there are many posters who believe there is inherent danger in her behaviors, and the PPs who think they are “helping” OP only prove our case.

As other PP stated, you don’t own the parking lot, OP, like it or not - ypu don’t make the rules. Your behavior tells us you endanger your child in many ways, potentially.

Wait how to OP endanger her child?