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to think that blue badges should not be used as "drive and park anywhere badges"

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CrazyRainbowLady · 23/02/2015 20:29

I work in a pedestrian zone. The sign at the top of the road is a no entry sign with exception for permit holders between 4pm and 10am. The road is wide enough for one car or van to pass through, but not much more.
There is a takeaway place just down the road from where I work, and every day at the end of my working day at 5.30pm, I get the car to load equipment in I need to take home, then I have to, at times, wait up to 30 minutes for various people to return with their takeaways before I can drive down through the pedestrian zone and go home.
Today a guy was driving in front of me, stopped right outside the takeaway place in the middle of the street, got out of his car and walked to the door.
I asked him politely to move as he was blocking the way through, and that it was a permit holders acces only road, and he told me to "come off it, love, I have a blue badge, I can drive and park wherever I want."

This is not the first time I have encountered this attitude since I started working there a year ago.
I get tutted at when I roll dowm the road at 2mph, with my permit on display, but this is ok because they have a blue badge?

OP posts:
SoupDragon · 24/02/2015 13:26

There are double yellow lines at a crossroads near our primary. There are regularly cars parked on them which make the junction dangerous due to poor visibility, lots of traffic and lots small children. The vast majority are simply twats who think they are only going to be there "a few minutes".
The vast majority of any inconsiderate parkers are simply twats with absolutely no excuse whatsoever.

However, I have seen blue badge holders park there (actually, just one particular car I think) and I muse to myself whether just because they can park there means that they should, because the dangers their vehicle poses to the children is the same as that posed by the twats described above.

I don't judge them at all because I have absolutely no idea what their needs or those of the children they are collecting are and they are legally allowed to park there. I just find the "can v should" aspect of it an interesting hypothetical debate.

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 24/02/2015 13:47

BishopBrennansArse - you said, "Read the title. Does it say 'AIBU to think this blue badge holder was inconsiderate'? No it does not. It refers to them as 'drive and park anywhere badges'. Factually incorrect and attractive to a certain type of poster around here."

Perhaps you should have quoted the full title which says, "AIBU to think blue badges should not be used as drive and park anywhere badges". It is clear to me that the OP is referring to some drivers who misuse their blue badges, and cause obstruction etc, and she is definitely not saying all blue badge holders do this, or this is the definition of all blue badges.

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