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

[IcingOnTheCake]

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.

yes, you are being unreasonable.
How do you know the reason for their Blue Badge? people with heart conditions who can walk perfectly well but not for long distances, for e.g, have Blue Badges.

'their own selfish convenience'? .
read the SN / disabled parents boards for a bit - you'll see why 'selfish convenience' is something in very very short supply in the lives of peope with disabilities!

the op is bloody lucky she has the ability to walk a bit further to the store imo

was there loading restrictions on those lines icing, if not, then he wasnt breaking the law.

Agree foxinsocks. I've said it before and I expect I'll say it again until someone shouts at me to shut up, they bring out the very worst in people.

Disgraceful. The man should've stayed at home where he couldn't be an inconvenience to anyone. Fish and chips? Pah!

Yes, you are being unreasonable.

Park in the back and thank you lucky stars you are able to walk.

I wasn't.

For a long, long time.

yes misdee, freebies are us!

Icing, I suggest you get this thread deleted. Just look at previous threads on exactly this to see the virtual kicking you're about to get...
And yes, YABU

But i already said, they didn't need the wide space, just one near the shop which there were plenty!!!!!!!!

its great having freebies. normal life, pah! sod that, bnring on the freebies

please god...not another P&Tspaces thread....

this is getting ridiculous!

i think it's tasteless and mean to be joking about people who are living long-term with a disabilty. Don't care if that makes me a kill-joy but honestly, why not get pissed off at all those arseholes (perfectly able-bodied) who park on pavements just so as to either protect their precious wing mirror from any passing juggernauts or because to park anywhere else would mean they might have to walk? Why are people so blinkered and thick!

Well quite clearly he shouldn't be allowed out again.

how do you know they didnt need the wide space. they may have gone to get a mobility scooter.

i'm getting my freebie car on thursday

bring it on!

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

Here, here, fox! I'll queue up behind you.

I'd actually never heard of them until I moved here.

They don't exist in some places. YOu have to walk.

rantothehills, i think you'll find most of the people who are joking are disabled, have a disabled child or a disabled other half. i do

Icing were u called fairy edwards before IcingOntheCake?

If there were plenty of spaces, then you could probably have found a space with an empty space next to it in which to carry out your near-impossible manoeuvre of getting small children out of a car

Oh sorry yeah he was on yellow lines. It was a one car at a time thing him being parked there.

My disabled blue badge holder of a ds1 can run like the wind. mwah ha ha (and he has his blue badge entirely legally and will for the rest of his life- mircales excepted- I would take the miracle but I'd be rather concerned about losing my 'free' car because obviously that makes up for everything.)

oliveoil youre post made me PMSL.

Eating out? Take aways? What is the world coming to. In the good old days they'dhave been stuck indoors with meals on wheels and were greatful for it. That's my tax paying for that haddock and chips.

Honestly Icing, YABU.

hi misdee, i realise that , I meant those comparing it with M & T parking or whatever, I'm multi-tasking )supposefly working too so have probably missed half of thread, my comment was more to the OP, tbh.