to think that being in a mobility scooter means that your excuse for abusing parent & child parking is COMPLETELY invalid rant rant rant

[flibberdyjibbert]

So I pulled up in parent & child parking, & as we were getting out, so did a car with 2 adults. I pointed out that this was parent & child parking, noted the scooter in the back of the car, & helpfully self-righteously pointed out that there were plenty (about 10 times as many) of disabled spaces a mere stones-throw away.

Them: 'Oh, but they are a long way from the store & it's a long way to go when you are disabled'
Me: Yes, well I'm ok with mine (1 & 3), but it's a long way to go with a newborn baby if you can't park here'
Them (tone of voice changes from the previous slight whine): 'Fuck off!'
Me: [stunned silence that anyone could be so blatantly rude & inconsiderate in so many ways at once]
Them: 'Go on, go away. Fuck off!'
Me: 'You are rude. You are very rude.'

So I've since established that a disabled badge means you can park wherever you like, including parent & child spaces, because these are only 'courtesy' spaces, not legally just for parents with children.

Which is fine. I have no problem with that.

But this person was using the space because it would otherwise be a long way to go 'for a disabled person'. And were then later observed by myself to be transporting themselves around Sainsburys IN A MOBILITY SCOOTER. It would have had to use an extra 2 minutes of battery to come from a Disabled parking space.

And they were SO RUDE

Must go, the chilli's burning.

I don't think it's working Olivia :(.

How about putting on in the back round for everyone?

Like the music in Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest.

Bloody hell, can people not even manage to get small children out of the car and across the car park anymore.

Oscar - oh yes, toddlers being mown down...yes, yes, say it again!

No, Moomin, they cannot because they will be mown down!

By mobility scooters, white van men, crack teams of emergency parking attendants who attend outbreaks of parking disorder, and women shopping for 17 in ther tea breaks no needing to be a bit quick.

YANBU!! There were disabled spaces available, if there were not, you would not have had a problem with them parking in P&C parking. A parent cannot park in disabled spaces. Really can't see anything wrong at all!

A parent cannot park in disabled spaces.

Of course they can!

If they are disabled.

Would you have it any other way?

I didn't even use any passive aggressive smileys in that post.

:):):):)

Ahem.

Your children will hear people swear everyday. I just hope you shape up and show some compassion by the time they fully realise how you are behaving.

Sadly there are parents who think it is ok to act like you did in front of impressionable children of 7/8/9.

I'm a little confused btw, are you only 14 days post EMCS, and you have been working for the last 9 days?

Thinking about it all the main shopping centres around here have pathways in front of the parking spaces. The only bit you have to cross is to get to tge door, pretty much like crossing a road.

They don't have them in the smaller ones but if you can't manage to menuver yourself and children safely around 8-10 cars you probably shouldn't be out in public places

I can't bear the preciousness of parent and child spaces. Your children will survive if you park in a normal place, really they will.

Don't know what's wrong with my spell check

Ywbvvu to say anything at all to them. Glad to hear you won't be doing it again.

Not read all the replies yet so am probably repeating others, but that's bollocks op. YABU. And how do you know they weren't both disabled?

Mind you, I would probably write to the shop and suggest they change the layout of their car park, so the spaces for disabled people are indeed closer to the store. And make them put the P&C spaces for entitled people like yourself who probably can't park properly in a normal space at the bottom of the car park.

The OP thinks the parker should park further away because it'll only be 2 minutes of battery power. Batteries have to be charged somehow. Mostly using electricity generated using fossil fuels. The CO2 release is warming up the planet. Soon the seas will evaporate away leaving the surface a red hot desert and killing every living creature. All because the OP didn't want to let this electric powered gent park a bit closer.

Few of us properly considered the 'end of the world as we know it' consequence.

Thank God for Tiggy.

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And the thread is a pile of shite but that is less scientific to be honest

2 minutes is the difference between my father getting home to his charger, or being stuck outside the house next to his external wheelchair lift, helpless.

Cutting it fine, but even so....

Or in Tiggys Terms, the end of the world. I think that is a Tiggy D mobility scooter dooms day prophesy.

Have you considered the person not on scooter may had mobility issues to

:o Tiggy.

I just read your post out to my Mum and she laughed her arse off.

She disability and has been the subject of scrutiny from people like the OP (and much worse) when it comes to parking spaces.

But yes, Won't someone think of the planet?!

Has a disability

I shall stop trying to talk and type at the same time.

I genuinely misread the OP's first post as "Must go. The child's burning".

Parent and child spaces are a sales tool. When they first introduced them, they also gave free nappies in the loos. They stopped that when they realised people were stocking up for the week, but they kept on with the spaces because once all the supermarkets had them, they didn't want to be the one not to.

Disabled people need special parking places because otherwise they'd be unable to get about.

I love parent and child spaces. They're fab. But I don't need them.

And anyone trying to tell a disabled person where they should or should not park, who persists when said disabled person has politely explained their situation (and right in law to park in said space) should expect abuse because the disabled person in question will be sick and tired of officious, pompous twits without any idea trying to run said disabled person's life for them. Usually to the abled person's greater convenience.

Mumsnet is INSANE at the moment.

Oh, another swiss cheese thread about parking spaces. Goody.

Love to you all.

People who park in P&C and disabled spaces are all lazy. It's perfectly possible to unload wheelchairs, scooters, strollers and babies from an ordinary parking spot. FACT.

You weren't being deprived of a p&c space, you said yourself that there were 10 spaces available, no wonder they told you to fuck off. It's got nothing to do with you. Perhaps the person with the one in the mobility scooter is also disabled and is in severe pain when walking. You never know, that's why you need to mind your own business.

ywbvvvvvu, nosy, interfering and rude. It's very easy to pick on disabled people isn't it? You wouldn't have said a word if a couple of hard looking, able bodied young men without children got out of the car.