This is a really small thing that has made my blood boil as the day has gone on. I went shopping this morning, to my nearest large city centre. I parked in an open air car park, which is very close to everything, and works on numberplate recognition.
I took my child and so parked in a parents bay, which were next to the disabled bays. My husband is disabled, so he has a blue badge, but he was not with me (only saying as it's relevant later on).
When I left, a man in a Rolls Royce pulled into the disabled bay next to me. He had another man with him, who was out of the car, helping him pull into the (obviously large) space. There was no disabled badge. When they saw me pull out of my space, they decided to move over one. So, vacating the disabled space, and parking, instead, in a parent space. They were still in view when they were out of the car and crossing the road. Needless to say, they had no child with them.
Firstly, aibu to be really cross about this? My husband has received verbal abuse in the past when he has asked taxis etc to move out of disabled bays so that he can park. More than once, they have refused.
It was also a saving grace for me this morning that I was able to get a parent bay, because my child was asleep when we got back to the car, and I needed my door wide so that I could manoeuvre him out of the pushchair and into his car seat.
Secondly, what could I have done? I am a wimp don't like confrontation, and the car park does not have staff. Aibu to think that drivers should commonly know how to report wrongful parking? I wouldnt, and didn't, have a clue how.