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

690 replies

lilmissminx · 28/08/2011 11:12

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 Angry 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.

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2shoes · 29/08/2011 10:08

kungfupannda well he just got up, he is now 19 and about 6 foot and healthy, so he didn't shrink or dissolve

TandB · 29/08/2011 10:09

Ooh. Liking the pink elephant spaces. I spent ages wandering round a bloody car park recently before I figured out I was on the wrong floor.

I was carrying a two year old as well. [martyr emoticon]

And I am pregnant. [double martyr emoticon]

I shall now sit back while you all marvel at my hardiness and stamina.

herecomesthsun · 29/08/2011 10:10

Spero Well, if I knew, I would have got my mum a Badge as soon as she was diagnosed with a terminal illness rather than it coming when it was almost useless.

I am no longer in touch, funnily enough with ex-co-worker so cannot ask. However, a) being a health professional herself and knowing exactly what to say might help b) this was a very physically attractive and plausible-sounding individual who I imagine conducted interviews very well.

SoupDragon · 29/08/2011 10:11

he would be almost 7 ft tall and a star professional basketball player in Florida if you hadn't got him wet.

borderslass · 29/08/2011 10:12

Ooh. Liking the pink elephant spaces. I spent ages wandering round a bloody car park recently before I figured out I was on the wrong floor.

I've done that not got the excuse of having little kids or being pregnant Blush

Thought my car had been stolen DH was highly amused.

TandB · 29/08/2011 10:12

Well if you are sure, 2shoes. [dubious]

How do you know he wouldn't have been 6foot 2 and up an hour ago if you hadn't been so cavalier with his health at such a delicate point in his development. I hope you can live with yourself.

There are probably support groups for people whose parents allowed them to get wet during their childhood.

Empusa · 29/08/2011 10:13

"I am really sick of this '"official" disability trumps any other access requirement' bollocks. "

Aside from anything else, it actually, legally, does!

TandB · 29/08/2011 10:13

X posted with Soupdragon.

Although I wasnt silly about it. 7 foot indeed!

2shoes · 29/08/2011 10:13

kungfupannda you carried a 2 year old, isn't that illegal now?
omg I am amazed, I thought all small children had to have a pram/buggy cotton wool cloud

ExitPursuedByATroll · 29/08/2011 10:14

Kungfu - my mother once reported her car as stolen from a multi-storey car park. She was looking on the wrong floor.

borderslass · 29/08/2011 10:14

Until at least about 4 judging by what I see 2shoes

TandB · 29/08/2011 10:14

I didn't qualify for a cotton wool cloud.

I know someone who got one though. And her DS is far less soluble than mine.

Some people just know how to play the system.

2shoes · 29/08/2011 10:14 

would you like to come and take dd out? try it my dear and you will soon see how hard it is compared to a baby
TandB · 29/08/2011 10:15

Exit and Borderslass. I should probably whisper when I admit that this carpark only has two floors

Blush
SoupDragon · 29/08/2011 10:15

"Ooh. Liking the pink elephant spaces. I spent ages wandering round a bloody car park recently before I figured out I was on the wrong floor.

I've done that not got the excuse of having little kids or being pregnant

Thought my car had been stolen DH was highly amused."

Friend of a friend had their car stolen and the insurance paid out. A month later they saw a very similar, nay identical but somewhat dustier, car parked in an identical street to where they thought they'd parked it.

borderslass · 29/08/2011 10:17

oops

muminthemiddle · 29/08/2011 10:17

Kungfupanda- I can do better than that. I went to a shopping centre it is one with a supermarket in. Got a trolley full of shopping took the lift to the car park and after wandering around thinking where the hell is my car, realised that I was in the wrong car park!!!!!
There are 2 car parks apparently and the lift from the supermarket didn't go to the one where I had parked!!!
I had to steer the trolley out of the wrong multi storey avoiding passing drivers and push it across to the right car park. Never again I can tell you.

SoupDragon · 29/08/2011 10:17

I am willing to bet that their lapse of memory is due to being rained on as a small child.

Pagwatch · 29/08/2011 10:18

My mother used to do all the shopping with no car and 8 children under 10 - 5 were under 5.

My mum is like a super hero or something.

Although I am quite short and enjoy walking in the rain. Perhaps that is the bitter price I pay.

Corvax · 29/08/2011 10:33

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thefirstMrsDeVere · 29/08/2011 10:38

I used to do my shopping with two under two and one of those Mclaren buggies with the deckchair seats. The ones made out of weaved plastic stuff that sagged after too much use.

Those were the days. Pushing a week's worth of shopping up the hill past Holloway Prison with a baby in a buggy and a nearly two year old holding on to it - pulling backwards. Me saying 'push DD! push! not pull sweetheart, help mummy!'

milk trailing along behind us like a snail's trail, only to be noticed when we got home and realised that it had leaked all the way back to the Nag's Head.

thems were the days.

Claw3 · 29/08/2011 10:39

"Lots of disabled people who are just as disabled as people who do have blue badges don't have a badge so can't use the space" Not ALL disabled people are entitled to a badge, it depends entirely on how disabled they are.

"Both disabled people and parents, and anyone else with a need, has a right to access common spaces. None of these needs morally trumps another, and playing oppression olympics helps no one."

Everyone has access to common spaces, but some people's needs are greater than others, its not moral trumps, its legal trumps.

"Disabled people and parents, and disabled parents, all benefit from increased accessibility, and should stop fucking bitching at each other and instead work towards proper access for everyone. How is this so hard to understand?"

Yes they do benefit from increased accessibility and bloody rightly so too, they have fought long and hard to get it!! Everyone else has proper access ffs.

herecomesthsun · 29/08/2011 10:43

And misquoting people who actually said something different is called setting up a straw man argument.

blackeyedsusan · 29/08/2011 10:43

it would be solved by putting the parent/child spaces at the far end of the car park, next to a path and a trolley shed. not at all bothered about walking to the store, as long as it can be done along a path (looney drivers racing around the car park) all I want is to be able to open the doors without dinting the next car.

SoupDragon · 29/08/2011 10:45

Only if that path has a roof to keep the rain off.

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