to plummy mummy
Why do parents think they need to have parking spaces any closer to the shops than anyone else. I dont park in ‘your spaces’ but resent the fact that you have allocate parking and that your needs are seemingling more important than people with disabilities and mobility issues, areas given that one, trollys have places that you can put children and they are on wheels so it is no more difficult to get kids to the shop, 2 you decided to have the children in the first place and therefore taking them with you to the shops and the stress that it might create for you is something you have to do because of your choice to have the child. I assume you are healthy and fit and have 2 legs like the rest of us. Elderly people and people people with disabilities and mobility issues are the only ones with any need to have parking spaces nearer to the shop and everyone else can walk the several hundred footsteps to the front door

plummy mummy
in my experience parking spaces are usually designed to allow people to open their door wide enough to get out. I know its a generalisation but most adults are over 5 foot and weigh more than 2 stone. So far not seing the need to have 2ft extra space around the car to get a little person in and out who are smaller, weigh less and generally in a car seat which is no bigger than a box. If you had 6 foot 4, 20 stone kids then fair enough.
Personally i also do internet shoppimg primarily because i get fed up of parents who let their kids scream and shout and dont realise that little boo-boo’s cries can be heard all over the store because , the place is essentially an aircraft hanger which carries every single high octave, treat the place like a playground, treat other people as an inconvience if their kids rush into them, their trolley or generally get in the way, or who feed them food that is not yet bought to keep them, quiet – which is actually theft.

Just my personal opinion mind.

[Lyle - Added a couple of edits for clarity, but nothing else]