Disabled parking in mother & child space

[CommanderShepherd]

disabilitynow.org.uk/2010/03/04/not-all-childs-play/

Firstly I want to say that I have never parked in a disabled space. having recently become a mother, the parent & child spaces are freaking awesome! I have a doona car seat which is also a pram, which means I have to lift ds and car seat in and out when we use it. Not too much hassle but I need room to get him in and out. I was curious if I could park in disabled space if parent and child was full (I honestly wasn't sure if it was illegal or just bad car etiquette) and came across this article. As per the article, do you think it's hypocritical that disabled can park in a parent and child space? Someone was actually finned by a supermarket for doing so.

I'm not sure where I stand on this issue, obviously I would never rob someone who has a hard time walking etc a space closer to the store, although it would bug me if there was disabled spaces free and they chose to use a p&c space.

Anyhoo, he's a pic of my ds being cute to distract the folk that will call me an evil cow for even thinking about it

That's precisely it hedgehogsdontbite but the only thing the entitlement culture has done in our generation is make people think that the p & c spaces are a need when they're not. I have a friend who hasn't been able to enter a shop in over 20years due to various disabilities, (her carers do it for her). The fact people try and even equate situations like this with not having enough space to get the kids in,(and I had a double buggy) I just can't comprehend.

I have another friend with fibro who walks with a walker frame, she recently got brushed by and tutted loudly at, on a very small side street, because she couldn't move for the lady's pram to get by why pram lady couldn't bloody wait two minutes is beyond me frankly.

Why on earth would a photo of somebody else's baby soften the blow of you comparing disability to having a pushchair?

Doesn't really matter if it's illegal or not, it is totally immoral and unacceptable to decent people.

This

That is just how self absorbed the 'pushchair mob' and similar are, dona

I was once yelled at by a bat shit mother for parking in a parent and child without a child. She continuously yelled at me as I got my first husbands wheelchair out the boot, unfolded it, attached the wheels and helped him into his chair. I hope karma dropped her in boiling lava!

You were calmer than I would have been Lunar, I'd have wrapped husbands wheelchair round her bloody neck gave her a long lengthy lecture.

I think the picture was supposed to be a bit light hearted/tongue in cheek.

The P&C spaces are put there for P&C to use. There is a notice on the asda near me that states it's specifically for P&C and anyone else will get fined. Just like the disabled car parking spaces are specifically there for badge holders.

No, P&C spaces are not a need but they have been put there regardless. I don't think it's entitlement - they have been put there to be used. If the managemebt decided to state that no other people are allowed to use them unless they have small children, that's their shout. No matter how twatty it is.

Double whammy here, spotted last week in Sainsbury's - 2 cars (whose drivers were not visibly disabled) parked ACROSS blue badge bays.

Doesn't really matter if it's illegal or not, it is totally immoral and unacceptable to decent people.

Completely agree.

What has that got to do with P&C spaces?

They are both seperate spaces.

It's the supermarkets that put them in.

Blandings

Do we still have firing squads??

Couldn't agree with you more Hissy

YABVU. Having a child is not remotely comparable unless you've been through a seriously traumatic birth.

OP if your struggling then I accidently discovered a great tip today. Went to a busy retail park with DS, no P&C spaces so I found a space with one next to it to give me room to lift car seat out. Then I walked away leaving the car door wide open to the world - luckily nothing was stolen & as a bonus nobody could park next to me while I was gone so it was really easy getting DS back in the car. Baby brain is alive & well! Maybe that's also causing your lack of perspective on this issue?

I took a very dear friend shopping, first day out after a relapse of her MS. She is young and glam and doesn't look disabled enough for knobheads

The car park was quite full so any free spaces were a fair walk away, the BB spaces were also full but a car pulled out of the P&C space next to the BB ones so we parked there, only to have some idiot grandmother complain that she and her daughter, i.e. 2 able-bodied adults, had had to walk across a carpark with a 4-yr-old I'd have been far more open with my views if my poor friend hadn't been so embarrassed

The entitlement of some people is amazing, these spaces have become a legal right in their eyes

Double whammy here, spotted last week in Sainsbury's - 2 cars (whose drivers were not visibly disabled) parked ACROSS blue badge bays.
Whether or not the disability of the person using the blue badge is visible is an irrelevancy.

I apologise for my earlier comments OP.

Here we go again

Have an opinion by all means, but laying in to somebody, swearing at them and basically talking to someone like they're a bit of dirt on your shoe is totally uncalled for? Do you not agree with that? You think it's ok to ram your opinion down somebody's throat that way? I'm glad I'm not cut from that cloth!

Having my children was a choice. Developing a chronic condition which has resulted in my disability was not a choice. I got out my car in Tesco yesterday, struggling to stand up and the woman in the car next to me had a right go at me! I just looked at her and said "disability doesn't chose you by a certain age!l and attempted to hobble off with Dh holding me up telling me that she was ignorant!

Nothing makes being a disabled parent more worthwhile than having twice the available parking spaces...

this thread is A YEAR OLD!

maybe start a new one - because we never have enough of these threads

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