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.

worraliberty - take a look on my profile for a picture I took at my local supermarket!

Worraliberty! Outrageous ! That the police should dare flagrantly breach the sacrosanct parent and child parking space on some feeble excuse such as upholding the law. It makes my blood boil. There ought to be a law. Was it raining? If so I may well write to my MP.

But you can bet someone somewhere is tsking and wondering why the police couldn't simply have been more considerate.

Spero - what you need to do to avoid being interviewed every 3 years is to have a life-limiting condition I'm afraid. My sister doesn't have to be interviewed but she has cystic fibrosis. It's a bit of a swizz trade off IMO.

I would love to know who all these people are who get their blue badges for having a sore elbow or something. There's always a load of people who know lots of them on these threads - perhaps you could PM them and ask to be put in touch with the fast track team?

And possibly a grown man.

What do you think the my picture Spero?

I'd like to point out that the supermarket has a designated emergency bay for police and ambulances as I live in a dodgy area

I do like how telling someone they are wrong (when they are) is bullying.

MsScarlett, I think your picture is fair enough. I operate on a hierarchy of need. I imagine the police are not hanging out in supermarket car park for giggles but to arrest some low life who may well be dangerous. They can park where they like. It would be nice if they could avoid disabled bays if at all possible but I am not going to start some whiny thread about it.

After the emergency services comes me because on bad days I do have to be careful about how far I walk. I work full time and I contribute to society with my taxes, it is in your interests to keep me going. Without a blue badge I wouldn't be working.

Abled bodied parents with able bodied children don't even come on my radar. For them to moan and whine that their needs are not being respected simply illustrates how blinkered they are. I wonder have they even met a disabled person to talk to in their entire lives?

I'm with you Spero. I find this op extremely selfish and offensive tbh. I think her attitude sums up our society's total break-down of human compassion. I wish she did feel ashamed but sadly I think she will always feel she is justified.

I am sorry. I was very rude about horses a bit earlier. And I don't like twigletts.
I have been a bit of a shit really.
But the whole grown woman thing has passed me by.

Very well said Spero!

Do you watch the spaces the whole time? I often find blue badge spaces full and then park in p and t - they may nit be full thirty minutes later when we leave.

Has the nutter who keys the cars of blue badge holders who park in p and t spots turned up yet?

Praaaaaaaaaaaaaagh- you couldn't make it up!!
We need a good old babbys wiv peerced ears debate now..

Spero - irritating that you have to reassess every three years. We bypass that now as ds1 has had higher rate care and mobility awarded for life ( although I presume we'll be assessed at some stage to check his lifelong condition is still lifelong).

I think if you didn't get involved in the abuse of the op then it's not you I'm talking about. Probably Spero you did by the sound of it? Don't be too sensitive - I just felt the need to point it out because I thought it was a bit unpleasant and immature.

I'm not trying to say you shouldn't be able to, it's an open forum and suchlike.

I found the op unpleasant and immature

The drivers who annoy me the most are the ones who invent disabled parking spaces. (Or rather the one guy who lives in my town who does it all the time). I park to the right of my disabled parking space because I need lots of space to get out. Someone parks to the left of the space to left of me to the passenger has plenty of room. You then end up with a largish space between the cars.

Hey presto, muppet man turns up and squeezes his car into it, meaning I can only get my car out with a can opener.

I don't know how he does it. He obviously doesn't need a blue badge as he appears capable of accessing his car via the sunroof.

I'm so sick of sitting on a bloomin bollard like a garden gnome waiting for the sod to come back and move.

Oh no it's not just about telling someone they're wrong -- no obviously that's quite normal on a thread like this. But obviously anybody that's read knows there wasn't restraint (Spero you said you were restrained so yknow, don't take offence) and it wasn't just saying you're wrong, think about things differently.

No, it was counterproductive. All that abuse made it look like "look we're going to do what we fucking well like and you can fucking well fuck off" so I would think it made her more annoyed than less. I think you can probably get your point across in a way that might make her understand if you did so less aggressively.

I found the thread quite educational really but then I'm not personally involved and just managed to extract the views from the abuse.

Maryz - what you say about first-time-mums reflects how dd's mum reacted to taking dd round when she was an infant. I was appalled at how she considered the entire world should be stepping aside to allow her own way. Cue some arguments between us and me extending apologies to various strangers.
The OP could have been a bit speculative in her opinion rather than diving straight in with judgey-pants locked on.

For some reason this op has really got to me. I am not usually bothered by these sort of threads but the way she wrote her post and the title of the thread really bothers me.