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

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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.

OP posts:
SauvignonBlanche · 29/08/2011 19:46

Careful - people have been deleted on this thread for so much less!
I only called the OP "stupid" but I was thinking the same as Andrew Grin

Pixel · 29/08/2011 19:53

This thread keeps making me think of Peter Kay.

"It's spitting, it's spitting, GET THE KIDS IN"
Smile

Onemorning · 29/08/2011 22:05

Ha! Smile

That's why you get high-quality waterproof gold paint, Pixel.

Columbia999 · 29/08/2011 22:49

I'm still waiting for someone to have a pop at me for not looking disabled, when I park my car in a disabled space with my blue badge. What am I doing wrong?

naughtaless · 29/08/2011 23:02

So if you have a disabled three year old who has a blue badge, where can you park when food shopping?

Onemorning · 29/08/2011 23:05

Columbia you need to leap out of the car and leg it to the shop door. Surely you can do that? :)

Columbia999 · 29/08/2011 23:15

I know, I'll put my tap shoes on and timestep all the way into the shop, that should do it! Grin

Pixel · 30/08/2011 01:38

It's amazing how little imagination some people have. It doesn't occur to them that it might be perfectly possible for a disabled person to skip merrily into a shop, but not so easy getting back out to the car with their shopping once they have trekked round the acres of aisles and stood in the queue for ages.

Gold paint sounds a little expensive for me, think I'll start a trend and wrap ds in a bin bag. Grin

Thumbwitch · 30/08/2011 03:33

Naughtaless, obviously the answer is you can park across both a P&C and disabled space. After all, you have entitlement to both - you might as well use it! Wink. Sadly you might have to wait a while for the adjacent P&C and disabled spaces to become simultaneously vacant, but dammit, you're worth it!

has anyone suggested one of these yet? the OP could get one for those, and a smaller one for the PFB.

cumbria81 · 30/08/2011 06:40

Do you know, I have never paid the slightest bit of attention to who parks in P&C spaces and whether or not they have kids, or indeed to whether those in disabled bays have a blue badge. Quite frankly, I couldn't give a shit. It seems there is this silent, seething war going on in supermarket carparks that I am oblivious to.

Andrewofgg · 30/08/2011 07:15

Well, cumbria81, the only time I have ever seen a really vicious physical fight, blood drawn on both sides, between two women it was over a good parking space at a shopping centre on a busy day. DW and I were watching from a first-floor window having a coffee and we were deeply impressed.

exoticfruits · 30/08/2011 07:35

You are not the only one cumbria-I am completely oblivious. It had certainly never crossed my mind that an able bodied mother with small DCs could think that she should have the space rather than a disabled person. Shock

exoticfruits · 30/08/2011 07:39

The only time that I have seen supermarket car park rage was when I was trying to leave the car park, having done my shopping, but there was a such a jam that I couldn't move and a woman was convinced that I was going to take 'her' space! I was trying to indicate that I just happened to be stuck and was trying to get out-all in vain-the stupid woman was almost apoplectic!

squeezemebakingpowder · 30/08/2011 08:10

I agree cumbria, it doesn't cross my mind to check whether the cars in the disabled bays are in fact occupied by bb holders!

I confess to have used a p&c bay when there has been one free, but if there isn't then shock horror, I use another space further away and use my legs and walk!

Oh and yes my pfb has got wet a few times while I've taken the trolley back to the trolley park! He seems to be thriving! Grin

thefirstMrsDeVere · 30/08/2011 08:15

There is a letter in this Month's Disability Now.

Its quite a long one.

It details the writers ideas for cages in supermarkets and hospitals with security guards.

They will stand and search everyone who has a BB to check it is theirs. Only then will they be granted a coveted parking space.

The same letter says that 100% of the people watched at a local hospital with a BB ran into the hospital when the got out of the car.

I think this letter neatly sums up the mentality of some most of the BB angry brigade.

I cant be sure but I am willing to place bets that the writer is not under 65 and does not have a life long disability. I also think its a man

But I could be wrong.

VeraCanSignChocolateAndWine · 30/08/2011 08:21

MrsDeVere - we find it is more likely to be middle aged women that do the most complaining about bb spaces being abused. That's our experience anyway, be fore anybody jumps down my throat.
Morning. Day 3 on the wonderful thread. Ah the joys.

thefirstMrsDeVere · 30/08/2011 08:25

Its always been grumpy old blokes for us though to be fair they are always with their wives. So it could be the wife egging them on.

VeraCanSignChocolateAndWine · 30/08/2011 08:51

That must be the bb police. Wink run by Mr and Mrs Skuttlebum, our of there conservatory where Mr Skuttlebum serves the tea and cakes whilst Mrs Skuttlebum plans the next attack.

VeraCanSignChocolateAndWine · 30/08/2011 08:51

*our of their

Damn autocorrect.

Loonytoonie · 30/08/2011 09:10

I'm guessing that I'm waaaaaay too late to contribute anything sensible to this thread, but the thing that springs to mind immediately (sorry OP) is the sense of entitlement some Mums have with regards to P&C spaces. Disclaimer: I freely admit to being caught up with this myself, so I'm not targeting you OP (that said, I've seen the light now after having a Mum whose become disabled in the last 12 months)Sad

The very existence of the P&C spaces cause so many arguments. Yes, they are misused (in my store, they seem to be used by young men in shiny little sports cars, scared their precious little cars may be dinged by other doors in the standard spaces) but the outraged sense of entitlement you see from some Mum's is pretty ugly too. I've seen arguments rage over them - one in particular will stay with me always: young, fit and very vocal Mother with a baby in a carrier trolley, yelling to an elderly lady for using up a space in P&C. I heard the elderly lady saying that she wasn't entitled to a blue badge, but had woken up that morning with THE most swollen legs Sad and could barely walk. Fir young mother called her a "cheeky old cow" before flouncing off and the bereft look on the other lady's face was heart breaking to see. Sad

Supermarkets give us trolley's........with wheels Shock so hardly a difficult task to push to the further regions of a supermarket is it? Am I the only lucky customer to have a store who has put up one of the walk-way shelters that stretches the whole length of the car park? I park at the very bottom of the car park with not a P&C place in sight, even if it's pissing it with rain because me and the little Loony's can walk all the way down without getting wet. Some Mum's need to get a grip a bit I reckon.

Spero · 30/08/2011 09:33

Sorry to keep banging my lonely and pathetic drum but can anyone tell me how these people who fraudulently and undeservedly get bbs actually succeed?

Herecomesthesun has tragically lost contact with her former colleague but appeared to suggest that she got a bb because she was attractive and was knowledgeable about the system. Well, I can bone up on the system, but not sure now there is much I can do to increase my erotic capital. Surely not all of these witnessed bb sprinters are aesthetically pleasing, so how are they doing it?

MrsDeVere, does the letter identify where this hospital car park is? My only idea is to start hanging out there and ask for tips.

Thumbwitch · 30/08/2011 09:38

Spero, I can only imagine that these fraudsters have borrowed their mum/gran/relative's BB so they can get the space. I doubt very much they have been granted it in their own right, except Herecomesthesun's ex-colleague who sounds like a bit of an anomaly.

My grandad had one as he could barely walk with a stick, certainly not very far. He got it in his late 80s and had to be reassessed - I have a feeling it was annually, but it might have been 3 years - because obviously he was going to have got younger and fitter in the intervening time, a bit like your leg growing back.

ChristinedePizan · 30/08/2011 09:39

The only way I can think of spero is if the badgeholder has some kind of terminal condition that herecomes doesn't know about.

My sister looks perfectly well a lot of the time and works a couple of days a week most weeks. She very, very rarely uses her bb because mostly she doesn't need to but there is nothing to stop her using it all the time and 'sprinting' into the supermarket (actually that is unlikely, but she can walk mostly), thereby gaining envious glances.

Kladdkaka · 30/08/2011 09:44

It's amazing how little imagination some people have. It doesn't occur to them that it might be perfectly possible for a disabled person to skip merrily into a shop, but not so easy getting back out to the car with their shopping once they have trekked round the acres of aisles and stood in the queue for ages.

Spot on.

Most of the time I can't do the shopping, husband does it all. He was away last week so I had to fend for myself. Parked in a disabled bay, floated out of the car and skipped merrily into the supermarket feeling a bit of fraud and wondering if I should put on limp to justify my space.

By the time I got out with my bread and milk (wouldn't dream of doing a weekly shop Shock) I was shuffling, barely able to lift my feet off the ground and feeling pretty miserable. I had to get help off a random stranger in the carpark because I couldn't get back in my car myself. My legs were so 'heavy' I couldn't lift them high enough to get them into the car.

porcamiseria · 30/08/2011 09:47

UGH!!!!!!!!!!! TWAT OP

have not even read hope she has been caned for this

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