WIBU to park in a disabled space?

[FairfaxAikman]

Ordinarily I wouldn't dream of it.

Our local supermarket closes off half the car park with barriers overnight to deter boy racers. It doesn't reopen until after 8am. ALL of the parent and child spaces are in the closed off side.

DS is still small enough to be in his car seat. In the past if I've arrived before 8am I've parked in a normal space but every time I've ended up with someone next to me, making it hard to get DS back in.

There is a row of 10 disabled spaces, all empty. WIBU to park in the furthest one from the shop?

It’s a tough one

Eh? HazeyJane has it spot on:
It's really not. Don't park in BB spaces without a badge

I don't use p and c spaces now - my youngest is 4 and I haven't felt the need of them for quite some time. But I do have empathy with those who do!

More helpful to report the employee who told you to use a BB space without a badge than griping on here.

If you look into it supermarkets are treating the abuse of p& c spaces the same as now badge. If you've been told by the supermarket you can use it I don't see the problem as there are still 9 other spaces

Having said all that, in your situation I wouldn't.

Somewhere local to us has joint bb and pc spaces
That makes for some horrible arguments and is a ridiculous idea

If you look into it supermarkets are treating the abuse of p& c spaces the same as now badge. If you've been told by the supermarket you can use it I don't see the problem as there are still 9 other spaces

BB spaces are a legal requirement. P&C aren't. Good look with them policing P&C spaces.

Wish they'd get rid of those P&C spaces. They're a fucking nuisance and so many lazy arses equate having a baby with a disability.

Agree. All they seem to have done is give many parents a massive sense of entitlement and cause endless parking wars. Blue badge spaces and normal spaces only.

can't believe (well this is mn, I can really) that the op and people are suggesting that some of the bb bays should be made into p&c bays.
I really wish everyone could be made to live as a disabled person for a few months.

As predicted I parked further out and came back to three cars parked around me. Thankfully the on on DS side couldn't park for toffee and I had just enough room to get him in.

I think I failed to make it clear in my OP that using a disabled space was the stores solution, not mine. It seems to be a condition of planning permission that the car park has a barrier down from 10pm to 8am.
I just think it's poor planning to have all the P&C in the fenced off section (along with the remaining disabled spaces). I wouldn't care if they put a couple further out even.

Grow up. If you can't get your child in a supermarket go to the corner shop, how do you think ppl manage on a bus

So no problem then. You got your child in and out of the car. Big fuss over nothing.

@Missingstreetlife RTFT

Also farms don't tend to have corner shops. This store is the closest.

I regularly shop before 8AM, there are masses of spaces further away from the door where no one parks next to you at that time. If you have a real problem with one store go somewhere else.

Most of the people that park close to the door that early are people popping in to grab lunch and go. It must be a big store and car park if they are trying to stop boy racers.

@Snappedandfarted2018 pretty sure I haven't.

What's stopping you doing your shopping later in the day, or doing an online order OP?

I get your frustration at the P&C spaces being roped off when you want to use them, especially as it's due to anti-social behaviour but it's up to you to complain to/lobby the supermarket to change their policy, not make BB holders lose out.

Pretty sure you have excately same thread weeks ago, very easy to change you’re username but I’ve certainly read this before. There’s been several times I’ve used a disabled space one taking my df who has terminal cancer with secondaries in his bones, my mother who’s can barely walk and struggles with a stick and my ex who might have been a young lad but had osteosarcoma (cancer in his knee) and walked with a limp, count yourself lucky you are fit and mobile that you don’t require the use of a disabled space the fact you had to question why there’s more disabled spaces available than parent and child is adhorent, are you really that entitled?

@Snappedandfarted2018 definitely not me. I don't do name changes.

Why the fuck is it so hard for able people to understand that disabled parking spaces are for disabled people??

It doesn't matter if they are empty, half empty, there are lots of them or if they are lit up with fucking rainbow flashing neon signs, they are FOR DISABLED PEOPLE and no one, NO-ONE else has the right to park there. EVER.

It's such a simple fucking concept. Either these people are ridiculously stupid, or so selfish and entitled they just don't care. I'm going with a mixture of the two.

Also I'm not questioning why there's more disabled that P&C - I think it's blindingly obvious why - I'm questioning why all the P&C (and half the disabled spots) are in the roped off area.

Parent and child is a luxury it’s not a bloody entitlement it doesn’t go in the same category as a disabled space yet your title suggests it’s just ok to park there because the parent and child is unavailable.

@Snappedandfarted2018 and yet if you RTFT you'd see I don't think so.

@FairfaxAikman

I'm questioning why all the P&C (and half the disabled spots) are in the roped off area.

Well, your thread would have progressed very differently if you had posted an AIBU about that, with that in the title, rather than about using a disability parking space.....

In response to the question in your OP yes YWBU.

It sounds like a suboptimal set up and based on what I can understand from your description of the car park layout, they should split out the disabled and P&C spaces across the two rows, such that there is 5 of each on either side and so when the barriers are down there are 5 disabled and 5 P&C available.

Give this feedback to the supermarket and hope for the best.

If it is really inconveniencing and bothering you, drive a couple miles extra and shop elsewhere.

Not this again, boring.