To have parked in a disabled spot today

[AuntiePickleBottom]

my mum recently broke her leg, she has a full cast on, I took her food shopping today so parked in a disabled bay as there is no way my mum could of used crutches far or get out of a normal spot, my mum used one of the wheel chairs supermarkets offer for the customers.

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Does she have a blue badge??

Yes. You could have dropped her at the door, parked and walked.

YABU

You should have used the P&C spaces

Why did you take her shopping though, if it was enough of a problem to have to use a disabled parking spot?

oh it's Friday

Couldn't you have done the shopping for her and her stay at home?

Yabu. Drop her off then park.

I'm not saying anyone who needs a disabled bay shouldn't go shopping, as they have a blue badge entitling them to park in that space.

You, unfortunately don't...hence why I ask why you couldn't have just done the shopping for her.

I did this when my mum broke her leg last year. I checked with the store first, they said it was fine. My mum was using one of their mobility scooters. I took her shopping because she wanted to get out of the house for a short while and preferred to choose her own groceries than have to try to remember everything she might want and then write me a list.

Supermarket carpark?

they are courtesy spots unless otherwise sign posted (ie clamping/warden controlled)

Yanbu, unless disabled spaces were v few, in which case yabu.

yanbu
as long as she had a blue badge

Surely disabled parking is a legal requirement, not a supermarket courtesy.

Do you really need to ask?

Supermarket carpark - yanbu

It must be Friday....

My mum has been in all week and for her own sanity wanted to go.

Didn't think about dropping her off at the door them going to park.... Note taking the next time she need to shopping I will do that

what? is not a woman with a full leg cast just as disabled as someone 'entitled' to a blue badge albeit temprarily? how the actual fucking hell would you work out that someone else would be more 'in need' of a wide space closer to a door? you heartless gits.

um.

YANBU.

Also. YOUR MUM.

(ignore the foamers)

AYC, it is the same for everybody though. It takes a while to get a blue badge, so all people with a disability have a period of time when they are disabled and do not have a blue badge. There isn't a way around that.

Having a temporary injury is the not the same thing as being disabled.

I think YANBU in that situation.

Because there is no reason why she needed to be closer to the store her dd could have gone and fetched a wheelchair from store.
Blue badges are for those that need to be closer to places, not those with broken leg.

FGS, ds is a blue-badge holder and I get as annoyed as the next person with people taking the p and using the spaces when not entitled, but I certainly wouldn't begrudge a person with a broken leg using one!

so one 'disability' is more deserving than another then?

and if she could fetch a wheelchair from the store then why cannot every other disabled person being driven to the supermarket?