Quite prepared to be flamed. If so, I'll never do it again.
I'm fully aware that one can be young and fit looking and still qualify for a BB
Shopping area in very small town, / large village.
Parade of small shops on both sides of road, yellow lines in one side, ten or so oblique angled bays with only one designated disabled space at one end.
6.30 in evening, so all shops shut but there are a couple of eating places open.
I'm driving, taking 92 old mother out for dinner. She has a blue badge.
I approach row of parking bays from the end where the BB bay is facing me.
The only bay has a car in it.
A young lad is sitting in driver's seat, having a ciggy and checking his phone. I can't see any BB on dashboard.
I give the lightest of toots on my horn, and hold up my blue badge.
Now I expected one of three responses..
- He holds up a blue badge, in which case I would have waved apologetically and driven on
- He looks embarrassed as he shouldn't be parked there, and he leaves the space
- He doesn't have a BB, doesn't give a stuff and stays put / tells me to p* off
What actually happens is a combination of 2 and 3.
He proceeds to move his car but with a prolonged tirade of angry looking faces and words and gestures.
I park there, but by the time I have got my mother sorted, the car next door has moved and the lad reparks in that slot, jumps out and storms off past the shops and round the corner.
We end up sitting in window of Restaurant, with me nervously checking my car in case he returns and plants some dog poo under my door handle!
Should I have just driven on in the first place and parked in the car park a couple of blocks away?