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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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Thumbwitch · 29/08/2011 16:48

yars, am in wrong country to patent idea in UK anyway so go ahead and steal the blingy sking trolley return pimping idea. You could bejazzle them as well (would that be trojazzling?) for the extra blingy types.

VeraCanSignChocolateAndWine · 29/08/2011 16:50

Love my laminator!

VeraCanSignChocolateAndWine · 29/08/2011 16:52

At least MIL didn't laminate herself!

Claw3 · 29/08/2011 16:55

This thread is making me laugh, little things, please little minds as they say Grin

2shoes · 29/08/2011 17:00

if I laminate dd will she fit in my bag?

Thumbwitch · 29/08/2011 17:03

2shoes - if you laminate her you can probably fit a handle to the laminated pouch and carry her like that! Or, if she's heavy, use the gold sking to slide her around on - it doesn't have to be exclusively for trolley return use.

Claw3 · 29/08/2011 17:04

You could always place her under the grill to shrink her, once laminated? Remember how you used to shrink crisp packets as a kid or is that just me!?

Thumbwitch · 29/08/2011 17:06

Don't know about crisp packets but do you remember Shrinky DInks? They went in the oven though, not under the grill - but they reduced quite nicely in size. There you go, 2shoes - once she's laminated, stick her in the oven (or under a hot lamp) and she'll shrink to fit!

Columbia999 · 29/08/2011 17:09

I haven't gone through the entire 21 pages of this thread, so apologies if someone has already said this; but did it occur to the OP that all the disabled spaces might have been already full when the disabled people parked in the P&C spaces?

Claw3 · 29/08/2011 17:10

No i dont remember shrinky dinks, they sound much more fun, than my sad shrunken crisp packet collection!

Columbia999 · 29/08/2011 17:12

Oh sod it, that'll teach me not to read the last page and realise that it's now a completely different subject! Blush

Thumbwitch · 29/08/2011 17:13

well wouldja look at that - you can still buy them! They were quite good - the ones we had were Disney pictures on special plastic, you coloured them in and then shrunk them down to make badges or keyfobs or whatever.

VeraCanSignChocolateAndWine · 29/08/2011 17:16

My mum wouldn't let me have any. Deprived childhood me. :(

2shoes · 29/08/2011 17:18

what happened to Ki ora?

LetThereBeRock · 29/08/2011 17:24

Kia Ora seems to have disappeared. That's not necessarily a bad thing imho considering how racist the adverts were,not that I realised they were as a child,but looking back I can't believe they got away with it.

VeraCanSignChocolateAndWine · 29/08/2011 17:25

The squash?

VeraCanSignChocolateAndWine · 29/08/2011 17:26

KIA ORA

Claw3 · 29/08/2011 17:31

Yep they look much cooler, you trump over crisp packets thumbwitchGrin

I remember kia ora too and opal fruits, not bloody starbursts!

Pagwatch · 29/08/2011 17:33

If someone would just make and market these for babies then they would be safe from rain and from old people trying that touching shit.

Empusa · 29/08/2011 17:34

Oh I so want a biohazard suit for my baby! Can it be a pretty colour instead of "danger" yellow though? Couldn't have my PFB melting, who knew I'd have to worry about that!

aliceliddell · 29/08/2011 17:36

Look, people - If all the disabled people had the consideration to get shrink wrapped, we'd need less space and could be conveniently stacked. I'm liking the sking and demand it be used by those of us with either one leg or two useless legs. And no-one else. (nb sense of entitlement)

Pagwatch · 29/08/2011 17:38

My idea mr ballantyne , would be in a range of colours to match prams...I mean travel systems.
You could get them in matching colours and with the logo so everyone knows , even when your child isn't in his pram travel system, that you bought him The Best.

Although perhaps not a pink suit with Quinny Buzz written on it. You might as well just call your child dildo

Claw3 · 29/08/2011 17:49

Alice, I fully agree with the need for the skings, but you will be skinging all over the place, without any consideration for parents and toddlers who also need to return their trolleys without their child getting frost bite

VeraCanSignChocolateAndWine · 29/08/2011 17:54

Please do not market a burbary biohazard suit.

aliceliddell · 29/08/2011 17:56

But surely we'll be entitled to steering lessons? And stickier snow?