I did not realise how many selfish people there are in this world until I had my daughter. People are asked to give priority to disabled people and parents with prams when using the very slow and small lift in Churchill Square, Brighton, but nearly every time I'm there I'm in it with people who are able to use the escalators.

Recently, there was a family (mother, father and three children) going from the restaurants to the car park. When the lift stopped at every floor, the father complained it was going too slowly, at which point the mother answered: "We could have walked down - it would have been quicker."

The number of times I see people who have no children with them park in parent-and-baby spaces is incredible. When I was in Churchill Square last week, trying to get myself and the baby organised to go shopping, a car with three young lads pulled into one of the few empty spaces for parent-and-baby parking.

At supermarkets, people park in these spaces when there are plenty of free spaces just ten metres away.

People should try to get kids in and out of cars in normal parking spaces. They will soon find out how annoying and fustrating it is to parents with little babies or toddlers when they cannot park in the spaces allotted them.

So, a plea from me and, I would think, most parents with small children: Don't use those few spaces that are designed for us but use the many spaces available and walk the extra two paces.

-Mrs G Barry, Arundel Road, Peacehaven