Parking in a disabled parking bay

I really don’t see what the issue is in this situation? You didn’t leave the car unattended and in the unlikely event that 8 disabled drivers rocked up all at once you’d have moved.

So abled bodied people get to decide do they ? Are you one of these people who are irritated that you don't get" preferential " treatment? That you are just ordinary and don't get what "others" have ?

Same. And don’t get me started on fucking delivery drivers. I had to get DS out in the middle of the street the other day and he had an absolute meltdown, and accidentally scratched their car in the process with the toy he was carrying as we squeezed past their car. Some justice, at least!

There clearly was a need, because you’ll think twice next time.

Completely agree. It is so wearing to have to ask all the time to be accommodated, particularly when the issue shouldn’t even have arisen in the first place. Like asking for permission to exist.

Fuck right off. Seriously, wtf is wrong with you?! I have a profoundly disabled child. We need those spaces. Your little darling can skip 2 metres further from his physical activity.

Then I’ll refer to my previous response to another poster.

I’ll just copy and paste my answer then

1- Many BB holders can walk but not far. The difference between the first place just next to the door and another one or two spaces down will huge for those people. Experience talking here.
2- if you either struggle to walk or use a wheelchair, you’re not going to step out if your car, check if there is a BB displayed agd then ask the person to move. You just park somewhere else. It’s true even if there are no space left and you end up in a ‘normal’ space. The idea that you can just move if needed just doesn’t hold.

If you’re happy to make ‘small infringement’ be my guest. It’s still illegal. But be reminder that what you see as a ‘small’ infringement might well not be for a disabled person.

I’m also going to say that it’s always good to listen to people who are affected. In this case, anyone needing a BB. If they’ll you it’s a big deal, believe them!!

This. OP did not inconvenience anyone.

She was in the right and you were in the wrong

But she couldn't move immediately she was waiting on her son she was distracted

@LionME but that's just slippery slope all over again. I'm perfectly capable in lots of scenarios of seeing a difference between a slight infringement which in practical terms is genuinely not going to cause an issue and the next scenario with a few tweaks that would. This exact scenario does not merit the vitriol on here

You don't have a badge
Your child doesn't have a badge
I'm not sure what's difficult.
You could have parked in any space and still stood in the same spot. He would have walked the same distance for his independence.

The problem is this one:

Oh in this particular case, it was ok. There was lots of empty spaces. Why being so uptight? Apart from the fact it’s illegal.

Then becomes
Well I always park there because there’s always plenty of empty places.
And then
BB spaces? Theyre for everyone right?

The law applies all the time. There is no ‘in this case it was ok’ because otherwise no one would follow it full stop.
The OP should follow the law. No amount of ‘I was next to car/I could move/whatever other excuses’ makes it ok to not follow the law. Imagine people would do that on 30mph zone saying they go at 40 because it’s night time/no one is around today etc….

I have a BB.

1- Many BB holders can walk but not far. The difference between the first place just next to the door and another one or two spaces down will huge for those people. Experience talking here.

2- if you either struggle to walk or use a wheelchair, you’re not going to step out if your car, check if there is a BB displayed agd then ask the person to move. You just park somewhere else. It’s true even if there are no space left and you end up in a ‘normal’ space. The idea that you can just move if needed just doesn’t hold.

And mine! If you park a mm over that white line, your car is on the community forum before you’re home!!

Not a good example for yoyr son. Forget it now, you've learned from it, move on.

in my immediate family we have 4 blue badge holders, living over three households. Wheelchair needs means car pooling is very rarely an option so if we all go somewhere together we need 3 blue badge spaces.

the idea you can just nip into a space because others are free doesn’t work in reality. It makes life a lot harder for those who need it than it should be

Yes how very dare those who have disabled family get annoyed at the 'oh whatever' responses from the op and thankfully the minority of posters.
We must be pleasant when people take the mick and we must complain in quiet voices.

Do have a blue badge? If not, you ABU.

Yabu and very selfish op!

It's amazing how so many people are too unintelligent to understand such a simple concept as, "If you don't have a blue badge, you don't park in disabled spaces".

It's so simple that I'm not sure how the people who cannot understand this function in daily life.

People are indeed furious because posters like you are enabling it by saying 'ah once is ok, I wouldn't do it but meh'.

It isn't ever ok. Not even for a few mins which next time (and there will be a next time) will be 10 mins and only 4 spaces etc..

If everyone parked in one of nine empty spaces, leaving 8 then it would be fine. In this exact, precise scenario the OP was doing no harm and could have moved immediately if needed. Slippery slope and thin end of the wedge arguments are weak. I don't deny at all the reality of what BB users have described here and I would never condone using one and leaving the car or using one of these were no or few available regardless of need. But in this exact scenario? She was literally not harming anyone.

Too many threads on here start with an OP and have people commenting using wildly different circumstances to justify their stance...there was one the other day about not having left details after a tiny white spot on another car was left by the ops door..the other car was parked over the line. Cue pages of abuse about people causing massive damage and dents and thousands of pounds of costs.

The increased use of “hatred”, “venom” and other terms to describe what is essentially not politely and kindly disagreeing is alarming to me.

Don’t think men tell each other off for saying “that’s bang out of order” rather than “ooooh no hun you probably shouldn’t do that but don’t worry, you don’t need to feel bad xxxx” or whatever.

I was one of those people. Or my late DH was and I was driver. See my post above for how distressing it was when there was no space.

But anyway. It looks like only a couple of people agree with me about the tone of this thread, so time to give up.