To be annoyed at everyone who uses the parent and toddler parking who shouldn't?

[sunshinemeg]

I am prepared to be told I am being a twat, but it's really bugging me.

So many people get angry (quite rightly so) at people who are not disabled using disabled parking spaces. However it seems so many more people use the parent and toddler spaces who really shouldn't.

The signs variously state
-for parents with children under 5
-for parents with children in pushchairs etc

Why do I see people park with their children who then jump out and walk off without a pushchair, it drives me mad, especially when I am struggling with a 6 month old and limited space to open her car door or get a pushchair remotely close enough!

The Blue Badge rules specifically state that it is for the use of the badge holder only. You are not allowed to just have the badge holder sitting in the car - it has to be the badge holder who is getting out and going to the shops (or wherever).

i can't drive (blind) but have a Blue Badge. It is in our car (glove compartment) DH obviously doesn't use the badge when I'm not in the car. I use it when he drives me somewhere that I need/want to go.

On the rare occasion someone else is driving me, I take the Blue Badge with me (if I remember! If I don't remember, then we have to park in a normal space, not a BB space).

For example, when I take the DC to their regular hospital appointment by taxi (since DH is at work), I take the Blue Badge, so that the taxi driver can drop us in the disabled area by the entrance, rather than in the regular car area which would mean I have to shepherd the kids across the crowded car park and ambulance bays, which isn't ideal.

I didnt say my mother was disabled. I clearly said her mobility wasn't great. And what is different now from when I had to park my car in an ordinary supermarket space when I was with two young children?

There's no law about who uses these spaces so get over yourselves.

I shall continue to use them when I'm taking my mother shopping and I won't bother applying for a BB thanks.

Like my children did, yours will grow up too and you won't give a shit about P and C parking spaces. I would never park in a disabled space because there is a real need for them.

"And what is different now from when I had to park my car in an ordinary supermarket space when I was with two young children?"

I guess that depends on how old your children are, doesn't it. What is different now from when I was a child, and could squeeze in and out of tight spaces, is that there were no car seats for children, no 5 point harnesses that needed to be done up, no baby capsules that could be lifted out with baby still in - that kind of thing.

I'm not even going to bother trying to explain it again to someone like you chocolate. Waste. Of. Air.