Parking in a disabled parking bay

Why the hell do people even bother posting if they can't handle being told they're wrong?

Exactly! Im
all for sticking to rules but honestly

I think you’ve got confused by my posts. I’m saying that my town is a nightmare and that this is the way they behave. Thus the whole braying comment. It’s a derogatory term. For example right now a gentleman that is poorly is actually getting told off on Facebook for his building having bird poo on it and spoiling the view of the town centre. I think the OP got off lightly.

I didn't say she was right to park there. In fact I specifically said she was wrong. But two wrongs don't make a right.

Try living it.

The lack of a disabled blue badge would have given it away..

YWBU. The woman shouldn’t have said anything though as how could she have known if you or the person you were collecting were disabled

This!

For all those saying “you were only 2 minutes” “there were loads of spaces”.

it’s attitudes like this that mean that now my own DS - disabled wheelchair user - cannot park when he goes swim training anywhere close. There’s 5/6 people in those spaces all “just going to be a few minutes”. There may be 1, but then 2/3/4 more turn up.

why should he need to park an extra 5/6 spaces away because it’s just a quick stop and convenient.

and anyone who thinks it’s overly dramatic and selfish - I’ll happily leg you spend a day in a wheelchair and then ask you again if you think that convenience has no effect on a disabled person.

'Moaners and massive overreaction a plenty' .

Or, family and friends of disabled people who experience this crap every single day.

Instead of teaching your 10yr old son how to dress himself and leave a building independently teach him some disability awareness.

You're asking if there was any need for the grandparent to comment on you parking in the disabled bay, while there was no need for you to park in the disabled bay.

Do you see the irony?

Of course she didn't need to comment and unless she actually knows you and your DS then she doesn't know whether you had a need to use the space - though lack of blue badge would likely be a big indicator.

But why didn't you just park up and meet him in reception?

Hopefully your son has someone else in his life to teach him responsible and kind behaviour?

WellYou illegally parked in a BB place.
And you have no idea if you’ve taken someone place. Because they wouldn’t have come and ask you! Think of your mother. Wpuld she have have gone of the car to tell to move? Nope. She’d have dealt with it the best she could.

I suppose your mum was also a moaner…..

me me me me me me me me me me entitled me me entitled ....

Last space,/30 spaces that isn't the point disabled parking isn't for "convenience"

Moaners and massive overreactions? 🙄 Jesus Christ. Take it on the chin and accept that you were wrong, don't double down and pretend that you are a victim of anything.

And I would never take a space from someone that needs it

but you did.

You did just that.

whether someone could have parked closer who finds walking difficult.

whether someone had to go further up for a space to get in and out of a wheelchair - especially when hatched lines are not both sides.

if you want your DS to gain independence then great. But not at the expense of the freedom of a disabled person.

you shouldn’t have had to come on MN and ask either.

you shouldn’t know what a total tool you were for making that choice in the first place.

No blue badge.

No parking in the space.

it’s not rocket science and good on that grandparent for teaching her little charge some common courtesy and decency.

hopefully now you realise how utterly unreasonable you were you’ll do the same.

There were lots of other spaces so this is a non issue. I have a disabled son with a blue badge. I’d be pissed off if it was the last space but it wasn’t so not an issue is it really 🙄

This said OP I'm sure the nearest non disabled spot wasn't that much father from the door, and the child is 10, not 5, so on balance yabu.

So parking in a blue badge space isn't ok, but taking a picture of someone who didn't consent to be photographed, and subsequently harassing that person online, is ok ? There are other ways to deal with this situation. Just asking the person to leave for instance.

And - it shouldn't matter but I'm sure people will comment - I have never owned a car, and never parked on a disabled space. But this comment rubbed me the wrong way.

I mean, you did ask OP!

Try reading all the various posts above that explain why many disabled people can't/don't "just ask". Setting aside the verbal abuse and threats we can sometimes get for "just asking", there are pretty practical reasons why it isn't always that easy. You need to find somewhere to park your own car while getting out to ask - negating the whole point in having the spaces in the first place. For some, that can be virtually impossible.

And please don't suggest parking behind, beeping your horn & waving your BB at the person parked there, tried that & was either sworn at or completely ignored/not even noticed

That doesn't matter and this attitude Is the problem isn't it? Oh well what does it matter nobody is using it. It matters words and attitudes to marginalised people matter. The majority need to do better and stop thinking about themselves.