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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:
ThomCat · 08/05/2007 16:57

grannycrackers!

how did the word 'trouble' come out like that??!!

NotanOtter · 08/05/2007 16:58

why ban p and c spaces though?? why not all help one another and live and let live????

LittleSarah · 08/05/2007 16:59

(Pssst, peachy and percypig, I posted the scone recipe further down - in case you missed it in the hubbub!)

IcingOnTheCake · 08/05/2007 17:00

Well i am going to finish here. I would like to say that i do appoligise if my op was offensive to anyone and it was not an intensional attack on anyone with a disability. Yes i was annoyed at the couple because they could have used the normal bays but as they didn't i guess it doesn't matter now. I am not a 'little princess' as i was decribed, i merly just a mother just struggling along in my own little way. Now i realise that i will be known on here now as that little selfish cow but i do hope everyone doesn't hate me now. Again i do appoligise for any offence caused.

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IcingOnTheCake · 08/05/2007 17:01

can i just add trice, when i was 41 weeks pregnant i was hooked off the seat on the bus by an old lady!

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nogoes · 08/05/2007 17:01

Exactly NotanOtter! It is funny that people are suggesting that they should be banned in case someone parks in them that shouldn't. We may as well ban all the mother and baby changing facilities as well just in case someone without a baby just happens to use it.

littlelapin · 08/05/2007 17:03

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Message withdrawn at poster's request.

NotanOtter · 08/05/2007 17:04

quite nogoes

SparklyGothKat · 08/05/2007 17:05

you defo aren't the first and defo won't be the last. People will forget your 'outburst' and you can do faces when you see the next P&T space thread

I bet the next P&T tread will start on the 18th may!!!

ThomCat · 08/05/2007 17:07

Getting bored with this now - You weren't ^described' as a princess, stop banging on about it. You're really begining to sound like one!!!

Blu · 08/05/2007 17:08

Icing! Stop digging yourself in! of course you won't be 'known' on here as anything in particular, you'll muck in and get along, BUT give it a rest with the victim stuff! Your DP and his bad leg (about which i am v sorry to hear), nor your unfirtunate experience on a bus make it ok to have a hgo at Blue badge holders...concede that, and THEN complain about anyone who genuinely behaves badly towards you...and you will get sympathy due!

I say this for your own good, you know!

ThomCat · 08/05/2007 17:08

"when i was 41 weeks pregnant i was hooked off the seat on the bus by an old lady" - oh my god, I feel worn out, I'm going home!

misdee · 08/05/2007 17:08
Hmm
misdee · 08/05/2007 17:09

you still dont get it do you really? c'mon admit it

ThomCat · 08/05/2007 17:10

it has GOT to be a wind up hasn't it???
PMSL!

mumfor1standfinaltime · 08/05/2007 17:13

Dh always insists on using p and t spaces, I much prefer to park further away and use up 2 'normal'spaces. This is mainly because I hate battling to the front of the store searching for a space (m and t space or not).
I do love the looks I get when pulling into a p and t space as I have a 2 door sporty car. I usually sit there for a minute before getting out of the car, watching the 'are you giving me the evils' stares from some Mums. 'she hasn't got children' kind of stares.
I then hop into the back of the car and reveal ds.

I would imagine that not being 'obviously disabled' (ie no wheelchair stereo typing)must be a similar kind of feeling when you pull up in your car.
My Mum has a blue badge as she has liver failure, not totally obvious to the eye.

mshadowsnumber1fan · 08/05/2007 17:15

well icingonthecake tell you what you can have my dd's cp, the blue badge and all that goes with it. then you will be able to park in a disabled space.

stleger · 08/05/2007 17:16

Don't take it too personally Icing, it was just your turn to start this thread this month. Next month somebody else will do it. it is random or karma, I'll ask my dd1 which.

mshadowsnumber1fan · 08/05/2007 17:22

sorry but if people start threads like this they know it will kick off

percypig · 08/05/2007 17:24

Thanks LittleSarah, will be making these tomorrow, popped out for a walk to the post box/shop - couldn't believe this was still going on when I came back!

Actually, I can believe it. Icing - you said in several posts (including to me) that you'd been harsh, having admitted that can you also see why people got annoyed by your OP, admit you were a unreasonable and a bit tactless, and let the thread die a death

SoupDragon · 08/05/2007 17:26

I once started a thread with a very similar title and it didn't kick off at all.

Pimmsontherocks · 08/05/2007 17:33

Icing,

I don;t hate you.

We all have different opinions and are very entitled to them!

Keep posting!

pointydog · 08/05/2007 17:35

When my kids were small I often chose not to use 'Parent and Child' spaces. And really, it was no great hassle at all.

wheresmysuntan · 08/05/2007 17:35

We CHOOSE to have children - no-one chooses to have a disability. Roll-on the death of the supermarket so that we all have to walk to local shops again and then no-one can bleat about P&C parking anymore

kittyhas6 · 08/05/2007 17:45

littlelapin, that is madness to find anything remotely offensive about that post. Anyway, you can come and kick me' if you like, i have big feet though