Disabled parking badges are for the designated places NOT where the hell you like

[lilmissminx]

Really need a vent! Am sick to death of seeing cars parked in the parent and baby/toddler spaces just because they have a blue badge, and not a child in sight The other way around and you wouldn't hear the end of it about inconsiderate parents etc. I fully agree with the need for the disabled spaces etc, but I don't like having to choose between leaving my baby locked in the car to return the trolley (especially if out of sight) and him getting totally soaked etc if I take him with me.
Disclaimer This is made more annoying for the particular store I am referring to as there are only 2 parent spaces, and more than a dozen disabled badge holder ones. Yet because the parent ones are in between the two sets, they use those and leave all the other badge spaces empty.

1. Perhaps the driver had a good reason to park in that space

2. Getting horses high is cruel

3. this thread is going o be the absolute bollocks if we manage to mix a debate about twiglets in too

4. I really should be ironing to pack the suitcases.

Maryz Often the wisdom is in calling them a twat

"2) Getting horses high is cruel"

at hobeydragon.

Yes maryz . I am much better at that now.
And my trusty " my sister would agree with you. My sister is a cunt"

and what about the dogging spaces? No-one seems to give that any consideration, when people want to do a bit of dogging and shopping. Disgraceful.

Note to self: stop taking a drink just as you open this thread.

Pan, in your experience, would you need the wider space for spectators, or in fact to get the mattress out the van?

and where do you stand on Twiglets?

Mattresses??? Them's only for Waitrose car parks.....

The PFB is 3 months old and might get wet.

Presumably since it's 3 months old it's in one of the carry-handled car seats?

Which you can buy, very cheaply, a raincover for.

Problem solved. HTH

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Matresses are for PFDs
Precious fucking doggers

Pag

Honey, stand in the middle. It crushes them completely then.

Glad Corvax said what i was going to - saves me typing it out.

OP - YABU.

This is my view. Disabled spaces should be nearest the store and plentiful. P&C spaces can be on the other end of the car park as long as they are wide enough to open doors fully in order to wrestle children into their seats/trolley/pushchair. The end.

I really like twiglets. Have you tried the marmite rice cakes? The full sized ones are lovely but hard to get hold of.

What an excellent form of calorie-control all of pagwatch's posts are, they seem to have people spitting food and drink all over MN...

OP, as I'm sure you've gathered by now, YABVU.
Blue badge holders can park wherever they jolly well like.

Aaaaah the arrival of thumb and her terrible puns

This is my view

May I respecfully suggest that OP purchases some waterproof clothing for their PFB as it apparently rains all the time?

Thanks for the tip Maryz, I can't beleive my previous post was deleted, all I did was call OP stupid, not even fucking stupid!
The world's gone Mad,

- hang on, whaddya mean, "terrible"?

I'm pretty sure that MN have upped the frequency of message deletion - and reduced the bar for it as well - things that used to stand are now deleted, very often to all round confusion!

@Pan

The thing that really gets to me is lack of thought and empathy by anyone. So no, parking in P&C spaces by disabled drivers doesn't get to me (nor does parking in them by e.g. pregnant ladies). But parking in them by people clearly taking the piss (i.e. the family the other day with their clearly teenage children) does annoy me - and so does the woman I saw the other day unloading her baby into a buggy from a disabled space (all the P&C spaces were taken, but she was driving a big jeep so I guess that makes it ok). If I'm just with my 4 year old then I wouldn't use a P&C space as we just don't need the width that you do if you have a buggy - it's all about thought for other people really isn't it. It's clearer in one of the supermarkets (can't remember which one) where they have a sign up saying the P&C spaces are wider so that people can get buggies out more easily, i.e. not just so that if you have kids you just have a good excuse to use a wider space (or one that is nearer the door).