Theme park queue jumping for DLP

Can we not just be honest though and admit the difference is just semantics?

Again - do you not understand how offensive this is?

It is NOT a perk - it’s a concession to help navigate how difficult life is because of a disability.

How lucky are disabled people eh! All these perks just for having a pesky disability that affects every single aspect of their lives, which are much more difficult than anyone else’s.

Clueless and offensive. Disabled people only qualify for motability if they are severely disabled enough to be in receipt of enhanced mobility allowance. Blue badge eligibility is difficult to satisfy, and othe others you mention are concessions in the same spirit as PIP is paid - I recognition of the difficulty and significant extra expense of living with disability. The fact that you would consider or describe any of these as ‘soft’ benefits nicely sums up your attitude.

These are given to try and make a disabled person’s life a little easier. They’re not “benefits” and the fact you are calling them this shows how absolutely clueless you are and it’s frankly offensive.

You clearly have no idea how lucky you are that you would even ask the question about skipping queues with a fraudulent disabled pass.

I didn’t think I could be anymore shocked at people’s behaviour but every day someone else needs to plumb new depths.

My child will never be able to live independently and I worry about his future in my every waking moment and I fear that his siblings’ lives will be forever impacted by the fact that they will then be responsible for him when we(his parents) die.

you then you come across people who think he gets loads of “soft benefits” - wow a free go in the ULEZ zone! - and want their child to fraudulently skip ahead of him in a queue.

WOW. Just wow. I despair of humanity

Would you really swap those "benefits" for being able bodied?

I'd rather be able to drive than get discounts on the quite frankly shitty public transport. I'd rather have the option of going to the theatre and being able to actually enjoy the full experience than taking a companion because I need someone to help me

You’re most welcome.

Important you understand that you’d be making disabled people’s lives more difficult by doing this.

Nice to know you don’t care about this at all and you’re teaching them it’s more important that they have a great time and make disabled people’s time a lot worse in the process.

No wonder there are so many unpleasant and selfish people around if these are the examples they’re following.

Im also interested in all these “soft” benefits you mention that disabled people get. Can you expand on them please?

My child is non verbal and in a wheelchair - we must be missing out on all these fabulous benefits!

Could you actually look at yourself in the mirror if you skipped in front of my child with your hired weirdo in the queue at Disneyland?

Wow OP, you are clearly as much of a dick as your partner.

I really hope that you get caught and banned if you’re found doing this. People like you make me sick.

A bit unethical ? To park in a disabled bay the disabled person - the badge holder has to be present. Same for free ULEZ and discounted or free tolls. The concession is meant for the disabled person - no-one else.

And I’ll end by addressing your comment on PIP. Unless you live with someone 24 hours a day 365 days a year, have access to their medical records and the medical knowledge to understand it and it’s effects, are privy to the details of their benefit claim and the DWP assessment on which it was awarded, you’re in no position to judge whether people qualify for PIP or not. The ethics are not blurred, they’re perfectly clear - disability concessions are meant for the disabled. And what others do or do not do, doesn’t make it right.

Then why post ?

Tbf many people behave like this with their own family!

How very British. I would not like to have a stranger tagging along on a family day out, I'm socially awkward and would feel obliged to buy him food.

That sounds very unethical, I'm not sure I could go along with it.

I hate theme parks because of the queues though. They charge so much money to get in and toy can spend 3hrs in a queue only for it to break down. When I've taken school groups they often pay lots of money and only end up going on 3 rides. Absolute rip off!

Then do what you have to do, hire Mick, whatever!

The ethics on all this seem a bit blurred given that apparently 20% of the country now claim to be disabled and a number of perfectly able people I know seem to be claiming PIP and getting a car on motability (yes, I know many disabilities are 'invisible').

This has nothing to do with what your DP is proposing to do. Nothing.

Oh dear, you seem to have shown your hand. Did you really mean to?

If looking to go to dlp, look at my post to mrsconradfisher. You may qualify for an access pass, issued in the uk that dlp and other venues accept

It’s not & I totally understand why you posted. Everyone is so virtuous on MN 🙄 Do what you need to to break the queues, half of them aren’t genuine anyway. Enjoy your holiday x

A thinly disguised benefits bashing thread.

Presumably though you wouldn’t be going to theme parks so not an issue & it isn’t to do with envy it’s entirely to do with being sick having to accommodate someone else’s needs before the needs of your own. If I’m paying to enjoy an experience then I expect those who want the experience to provide them additional privileges to pay for that right

I have chronic conditions and it has numerous impacts on my life - only being able to work part time being the main one. I'm not eligible for things like PIP as I can mobilise and care for myself, but life is harder for me than most of my peers. I don't get any soft benefits, monetary or otherwise. I struggle to stand in long lines (balance and tiredness issues). In some places people are willing to make adjustments for me (eg I wait at a side on a chair). But now for lots of places, like Disney World, I wouldn't qualify for any adjustments because of them now requiring only certain kinds of evidence as people (like you and Mick) abuse the system. Every time someone does it, it makes things that little bit harder for those of us who genuinely struggle. Be thankful that you don't understand what it truly means to live with a condition or disability because I promise you, you would rather have your current life than to get the soft benefits that you are so envious of.