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To be annoyed when disable badge holders use parent and toddler spaces

354 replies

IcingOnTheCake · 08/05/2007 14:34

Well i probably am being unreasonable but i find this more of a cheak than anything. Me and my dp and dd luckily found a parent and toddler parking space (quite rare that happens) so i was happy about that. When i was loading dd into pushchair, someone went leaving an empty space and straight in was a couple with a disabled badge even though there were normal spaces free too. When they got out of the car i said to them 'you know these spaces are for parents with babies and pushchairs'. They said to me all grumy 'there isn't any disabled spaces'. I asked if they had been downstairs as there is always spaces and they said no we haven't, we are fine here'.

I felt very annoyed because if i can't find a mother and child space, i find a normal space and wouldn't even consider parking in a disable spot for obvious reasons plus they all kick off at people who do so why should it be different here. This couple walked straight into the shop we were next to and thats when i realised it wasn't about finding a disabled spot for them, they just wanted to park right outside the store for their own selfish convinience meanwhile some parent is struggling in a normal space to get her kids out the car with a tiny gap.

OP posts:
lulumama · 08/05/2007 14:35

you cannot equate a baby space with a disable space,,one is a privilege, one is a right

i would happily have no M&B spaces and lots more disabled spaces

and i would give up a M&B space to a disabled person!

damn right people kick off if non disabled people park on the disable spaces, having a baby is not the same thing at all.

coppertop · 08/05/2007 14:35

Erm people with a disabled badge usually need to park near the shop.

sweetheart · 08/05/2007 14:35

No your not being unreasonable - they would have been all high and mighty if it was the other way round. I have a real bug bear about disabled spots, mainly that there are about 4 times as many diabled spaces as P&T at my local supermarket.

Rant over but you were definatly in the right

shonaspurtle · 08/05/2007 14:36

YABU and are likely to be told this in no uncertain terms by subsequent posters...

Can we just take the next 60 posts as read and not go there?

lulumama · 08/05/2007 14:36

maybe their disability is not obvious to the naked eye either.....

SparklyGothKat · 08/05/2007 14:36
GiantSquirrelSpotter · 08/05/2007 14:37

Yes you are.

See thread passim to find out why.

lulumama · 08/05/2007 14:37

sweetheart

are you for real????? having a baby does not make you the same as a person who is disabled,

they would have been all high and mighty....damn straight they would

mum and baby spaces are a privilege, not a right!!

chilledmama · 08/05/2007 14:37

Yes you are!

misdee · 08/05/2007 14:37

[yawns]

wake me up when it kicks off.

lulumama · 08/05/2007 14:37

am incoherent now, will go and gibber quietly on another thread

FiveFingeredFiend · 08/05/2007 14:38

Icing

Bibis · 08/05/2007 14:38

Yes!

SparklyGothKat · 08/05/2007 14:38
lou33 · 08/05/2007 14:39

maybe all the disabled spots were full

noone asks to be disabled, i think you are being unreasonable

this will kick off i expect, btw

FioFio · 08/05/2007 14:39

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IcingOnTheCake · 08/05/2007 14:39

They were not wheelchair users so they didn't need the wide gaps each side of the car! There were normal spaces there too that were empty right outside the shop so there was no need for them to do that!

OP posts:
misdee · 08/05/2007 14:39

ah cheers hun.

remind me that next time i use a parking spot its for dh own selfish convience

turquoise · 08/05/2007 14:39

Yes. YABU

lulumama · 08/05/2007 14:40

at not being wheelchari uses...!! so waht !! they need the space more than you !

get over it , YABU!!

thank god i need to do the school run

misdee · 08/05/2007 14:40

oh of course, you have to be wheelchair users to be disabled, i forgot that.

lou33 · 08/05/2007 14:40

lol @ not needing a wide space

double lol @ fio

misdee · 08/05/2007 14:41

hi tour guide babrie

SparklyGothKat · 08/05/2007 14:41

my DS is a wheelchair user AT TIMES... other times he walks, depends on if his legs hurts or if he is tired. Being in a wheelchair isn't the be all and end of all of disablilities

chilledmama · 08/05/2007 14:42

A better title would have been...Am Ibeing unreasonable to be p***off at people who abuse Disabled badge whoare not disabled...

Then you migh hae got little support!wink]