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.

Doddies should never be allowed out with children at all. They would probably allow the PFBs to melt or something.

[steeels 2shooz pokit munny]

Matmoo, BB holders park where ever is easiest for them, its not a sense of entitlement, its the whole bloody point of having a blue badge. Having a blue badge, does not restrict you to parking in disabled bays, it entitles you to park where ever is easiest for you ffs!

It would be VERY different if it was the other way around, because you are not bloody disabled and would be breaking the bloody Law.

From this thread, its the non bb holders who seem to have a sense of entitlement, to something they are not actually entitled to in the first place!

You can use the BB for picking up purposes, ie picking up from appointments but the BB holder has to actually use the car.... for eg you can't go out to a pharmacy, collect a prescription and return home without BB holder in the car at all....

Is this still going on?

Is this a record for a P&C parking thread?

People are being quite pleasant aren't they?

Good grief, what is up with everyone - calm down.

Just to clarify, no able bodied persons are allowed to use somebody elses badge if they are not with them, they are also not allowed to park in a disabled spot if said disabled is in the car but not getting out.

I can see kind of where the op is coming from, but only if the disabled spots are closer to the doors and are free to use, then they should be using them, as that is what they are designed for.

I dont use the p and c spaces, we park at the back of the car park and walk.

It was raining the other day and we all got wet, and yes i checked none of us have shrunk although baby grew a bit

I love the rain

disabled person - apologies

"From this thread, its the non bb holders who seem to have a sense of entitlement, to something they are not actually entitled to in the first place!"

Nice generalisation

Obviously directed at non bb holders with the sense of entitlement, not at the non bb holders without a sense of entitlement. I thought that spoke for itself and didnt need to be clarified.

i want to say, i cannot Believe that people glare at people with blue badges - if they seem to be able to walk -
what is wrong with people

I can only assume that a lot of people have never lived with/gone shopping with/tried touse public transport with/done anything with a disabled person. Once you have a disabled person in your family, your family is disabled. We can't go out as a family on public transport because I'm disabled. Dd &dp aren't, but they still can't use public transport while they're with me. Dp takes dd to school because I can't. He doesn't have a full time job because I'm disabled. And so on and on and on. Whether I'm actually there or not, my family run their lives around my impairment. It is fundamentally not an individual problem, it directly physically affects everyone in my life. If we need medication for me, dp will go without me because of the time and effort it would cause us all if I went. He's my carer, so all the time he's out doing stuff he only does because I can't, I have no carer, no drink, no toilet access, etc. But he can't use the badge, and we pay full car tax because he uses the car when I'm not in it.

Mrs DV "One hand removed, one bag badly balanced and whooooooosh your precious child flies backwards at the speed of light.

Mine got quite used to it and used to wait patiently, staring at the sky, until I picked them up."

This made me snort with laughter - I remember doing this too!

A nice light moment on a thread which got all heavy again. There really is no justification for people to whinge about blue badge holders. Swap places with them for a day - see how you like them onions.

Corvax just find a nice big puddle to sit in for an hour, you never know.....

Soupdragon, interesting though that you choose to pick me up on my comment, instead of the people generalising about disabled people having a 'sense of entitlement' to something they are actually entitled to.

I'm actually trying to think of a time since I had a baby when I have categorically been unable to manage an ordinary part of everyday life.

I can't.

There have been times when things have been a little tricky - one memorable occasion being when the 2 4x4s parked so close to my car that I couldn't get the door open and had to get the resident car-washing bloke to hold 3 month-old DS while I climbed in through the boot and reversed the car out - but I don't think I have ever had to give up on shopping/travel/general getting around.

Can any able-bodied parent of an able-bodied child honestly say that they have experienced a situation, in normal life (not while abseiling on Mars or white-water rafting down the Amazon obviously) where a problem related to having a baby with them was completely insurmountable as opposed to annoying or requiring thought and effort?

For someone with a disability there might be situations on a daily basis that simply have no solution. To compare, in any way shape or form, having a baby to having a disability is just staggering when you really think about it.

All these reminders of prams falling over backwards have made me grateful I don't really have to use one anymore for DS (although it's only a brief reprieve, until DD arrives and we have to start over). Thank goodness there is generally an alternative with babies and children (sling, trolley, someone keeping 'em at home). My limited tastes of limited mobility are bitter enough; imagine sucking on that for life!

P.S. My DS wasn't even resigned when he fell backwards in his chair: he screamed his flipping head off!

kungfupapnnda sozzy I was off looken after my mommy girl and lost my mommy space on the thread

Considering how crass and ridiculously plain wrong the OP was, I think they've got off pretty lightly from the 'illiterate' bullies!

Right there with you, Shitmagnet

I have 2 kids and 1 kid with a disability, not a physical disability, but autism. I dont have a blue badge.

The problems i have with shopping with my ds 7 years old with autism, which i didnt have with my other 2 are

1. He doesnt always understand my instructions.

1. He has sensory difficulties, so is unable to stand still, he spins on his bottom, or rocks or shakes or runs. He doesnt like people touching him or brushing past him. He doesnt like crowds, he panics.

1. He has continence difficulties, but doesnt wear a nappy.

1. He has a food phobia, so supermarket shopping is impossible. He wont go near food.

1. He has no stranger danger, will walk up to anyone and talk to them, hug their legs etc.

The solution is i cannot take him to a supermarket. Someone has to look after him while i go.

Dunno, about everyone else but I'm a bit nervous about the prospects of blue badgers in Sainsbury's car park. Don't they carry tetanus?

Claw3 - I bet that makes your life really tricky and hard work in ways unimaginable unless experienced. Best wishes.

Zillion - Rabies, actually. And we bite.