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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.

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IcingOnTheCake · 08/05/2007 14:42

Well they didn't need a wide space, just a space near the store which there were plenty.

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Boco · 08/05/2007 14:42

Having a baby is not a disability - you don't need a special parking space - it's handy, but it's not an essential requirement and you don't have a right to a special convenient space.

If you are disabled, it IS! It is the law, for a disabled person it can be totally essential for access to shopping at all so.. YABU YABU oh yes YAAABU.

Chirpygirl · 08/05/2007 14:42

Yes you are. Now shush.

GiantSquirrelSpotter · 08/05/2007 14:42

Have just read the OP properly and ooh, "their own selfish convenience"

Those bastards with no legs. They'll be wanting wheelchairs next. Bastards. Taking up spaces in the supermarkets, getting in the way of my trolley. Bastards. Overprivileged bastards.

Good lord Icing on the cake, please read past threads on this and then perhaps you'll get some idea why it is that a disabled person needs your M&T space more than you do.

I genuinely pity people who are jealous of disabled people's parking spaces.

OrmIrian · 08/05/2007 14:43

28 postings in 8 minutes. Not as many as I'd have expected...

Yes. BTW. You are being unreasonable.

princessmel · 08/05/2007 14:43

Hasn't this been done 100 times before??

And yes you are.

RanToTheHills · 08/05/2007 14:43

well, 2 wrongs don't make a right and all that. I don't think they did anything wrong, tbh and being disabled doesn't necessarily mean being a wheelchair users, in fact most aren't! Chances are they struggle for breath if they walk too far or something similarly disabling.

oliveoil · 08/05/2007 14:43

I get pissed off with this too

I mean, why do I, an able bodied youngster, have to walk an extra 50 yards to go shopping? My children can walk as well, run even, but that is not the point, I am special and deserve to be treated so

They are soooooooooooooo lucky having these badges imo. And I have heard that they get free cars...

littlelapin · 08/05/2007 14:44

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Pimmsontherocks · 08/05/2007 14:44

Icing,

In my humble opinion you are being unreasonable.

Imagine, how many times drivers without children park in the disabled spaces- I have witnessed that! and don't blink an eye.

SparklyGothKat · 08/05/2007 14:44

and don;t forget the free car tax and the free wheelchairs

RubyRioja · 08/05/2007 14:44

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OrmIrian · 08/05/2007 14:45

Not just free cars OO. They even get medecines and bandages and crutches free too! Bloody scroungers.... >

littlelapin · 08/05/2007 14:45

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pooka · 08/05/2007 14:45

YABU.
"Selfish convenience". That's how you put them parking there. Personally I think that ble-badgers should, because they have a disability have priority over all spaces near a shop.

ash6605 · 08/05/2007 14:45

sorry agree with other posters-disabled spaces are few and far between and i feel they deserve a space more than us mums.
as someone else said,they do not have to be in a wheelchair to be disabled,so what if they WALKED into the shop??my mum had a disabled badge when she had terminal cancer-she could still walk though.and you think you deserve a space more than someone like that??
get over yourself!

it does rile me when people without babies/kids use the m&b spaces though.

foxinsocks · 08/05/2007 14:45

not only free cars olive, don't you know they get money for being disabled too. It's a shocker I know.

coppertop · 08/05/2007 14:45

And don't forget they also get extra money for doing nowt.

GiantSquirrelSpotter · 08/05/2007 14:46

And some of them have videos at home.

Bastards

pooka · 08/05/2007 14:46

OO you forgot that the seating near to the stage in theatres and concerts. And access to large public loos. Life of riley.

IcingOnTheCake · 08/05/2007 14:46

Ok well how about the badge holder man last week who parked on double yellows right outside the chippy cause traffic congestion even though there was an empty layby on the oppisite side of the road and the road is not wide at all to cross and it has traffic lights.

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foxinsocks · 08/05/2007 14:46

I think I'm going to vote for any councillor who vows to ban all these sodding parent and toddler spaces.

misdee · 08/05/2007 14:47

ooo we get a free heart machine, nurses and batteries.

plus the free car, car tax, insurence etc etc. its great

sniff · 08/05/2007 14:47

I think they have a right to park in M&B spots I would happily give up the space to someone who needs it more than me

GiantSquirrelSpotter · 08/05/2007 14:47

What do you know about that badge-holder's disability Icing?

Did you interrogate him and demand to know if he could have crossed the road?

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