Woman shouted at me for parking in a disabled spot

Lol at wheelie. Where on earth do you live?

I get the same. I just say I'm registered blind 🤷🏻‍♀️

I can't even be arsed to comment on the concert space scenario I mean how dare somebody have an evening out.

This, I have better days than others it doesn't mean I'm skipping about cured usually just means I'm in less pain I'm still going to use a disabled spot (or the lift) to maintain the better day.

I think you need to look up the criteria. I can walk 20 metres. I can't do it safely without the help of another person due to dual sensory loss

Unfortunately they are given out like sweets by some doctors.
My brother has a wheelchair bay outside his house. He lives a 20 min walk from a well known concert venue. Whenever a concert is due to take place, you can guarantee a chancer with a badge will try take it if he's not at home.
Anyone who can walk 20 mins to a concert venue, enjoy the concert, and make the walk back to the car hours later is taking the piss. They shouldn't be taking the space from someone who is actually disabled.

"Good days and bad days" - yes because disability comes and goes like the wind......one day you can just start skipping and running around.

To be fair, there are some disabilities where this can be the case. My friend has lupus. On her good days she can run for miles. On her bad days, she can't get out of bed.

What's a wheelchair card?

Some disabilities aren’t visible which is correct, and some people have disabilities that good days and bad days, just because you “can” doesn’t mean you “should”

We shouldn't get in to disability top trumps. If the organisation who provides the badges decide that a person is disabled enough to need one, then they should have one, and they should use the spaces provided for them. They aren't given out like sweeties, you do have to have a specific reason for requiring the spaces. Not every disabled person is eligible for a badge.

My friend can physically walk without any issue, except she can't see when it is daylight (has photophobia). She was issued a Blue Badge despite not being on PIP, because she can't see where she is going, and has to have someone guide her.
She has to submit a lot of evidence whenever her BB needs renewing. She gets one, so is entitled.

They are handing those Wheelchair cards out like smarties. A lazy and overweight neighbour of mine is trying to get one. My brother, who is in a wheelchair, frequently can't park in wheelchair spots because they are taken by people who have can walk without any issue. The system is being abused.

Only people in wheelchairs, or people are have significant difficulties, walking should get them. It's turning into a joke.

I had a man accost me for that once as I walked round to open the boot ‘you’re not disabled!’ I said ‘well your glasses work as that’s true I’m not but he is!’ I pointed past him to where my mother was pushing my Dad in his wheelchair to the car. As he deflated a lot due to not catching someone out I said ‘now if you have quite finished making a tit of yourself you will need to excuse me as I have to help transfer my father!’

Why should she? These people need telling. What's so terrible about a 'public spectacle'?

OP: I have a blue badge

Lots of annoying posters: do you have a blue badge?

No they are just likely to be carers or have been carers for elderly people with a Blue Badge and struggled to get a space, because they are filled with people who do not have a Blue Badge.

@Rosscameasdoody I've used similar, but substituted "cunt" for twat. I have very little patience with these people.

@SaltyPig I've told people to fuck off too, and it's almost always been pensioners. I am now in my 60s, but have years of experience of twats and disabled parking spaces, it was certainly worse when I was younger. See also disabled toilets.

Think elderly are jealous that they don't have a BB. If that was the case, 1 in 6 people would have one!

We were told that there is no laws about PnC spaces as they are optional. Anyway, you hardly see PnC spaces in council or private car parks. Only ones to shops, leisure parks etc.

They don't envy the disability, that they won't necessarily have a clue as to what it is. They either want the space for themselves, or believe that they are doing a good thing by calling people out, who they feel should not be parking there. Either way, nobody is required to explain themselves, or give these people the time of day.

I have a blue badge, use a walker, but not a wheelchair; I can walk for a few steps, enough to retrieve my walker from the back of the car.
I drive an ordinary car, not a specially adapted vehicle.
If this self-appointed blue badge monitor had seen me getting out of my car, from her vantage point four cars away, I guess her perception would have been that I was an able-bodied person parking an ordinary car, but I was awarded the badge after serious investigations and medical evidence. If she came close enough to berate you, she was close enough to see the badge.
She needs to become better-informed, and not to jump to conclusions.

For sure, my issue will likely never resolve. One of the original issues was being unable to get in/out of the car without fully opening the door (knee just wouldn't co-operate) which is surprisingly difficult in some car parks. I could park at a far end, but sometimes, there just isn't space.

When issuing blue badges, they need to also send a list of scathing retorts for recipients to use when idiots abuse disabled drivers.

It blows my mind that people are essentially envying a disability.

Can't remember if it was my DH who dealt with it or I read it on here about a disabled woman driving a Porsche and somebody claiming she couldn't possibly be disabled. There was almost a punch up!

I think for many disabled people a ‘good’ day doesn’t necessarily mean you don’t need to use a disabled space though. If the disability is permanent, there’s a limit to how ‘good’ it gets. Hence the need for the badge.