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?

And when the two sets of spaces are next to each other then people who don’t have blue badges will undoubtably encroach on the spaces for those with disabilities.
Why mention it in store if not having a moan?

I managed just fine getting dd in and out of my large car without parent and child spaces. The key is not using the stupid baby bucket. It isn’t good to leave a child in a car seat when it isn’t absolutely necessary so it definitely doesn’t need to come out of the car. Worst case scenario, I had to enter the car from the other side to put her back in.

The cars growing thing is such an excuse.

When I wasn't disabled I drove a huge BMW 4x4. I was more than capable of getting a baby seat out of it in a normal space. When my DH parks our large estate in a normal space when I'm not with him, he has no issues with getting DS out.

Wolfie. By the looks of the diagram, the spaces are already pretty much adjacent though, it’s just where the barricade is placed that’s the issue.

The amount doesn’t matter.

It is really as simple as if it is a blue badge space and you don’t have a blue badge don’t park there.

No ifs, no buts, no maybes. People can come up with whatever shit excuses they want but if you don’t have a blue badge then you can’t park there

But to say “they’re ours, all of them, always, and the rest of you can go fuck yourselves, even when we’re not using them” - which is how a few posters are coming across - is just puerile

What a ridiculous point of view. If those spaces weren’t reserved for those with blue badges, they’d be full of people like the op just “popping in” to the supermarket. They wouldn’t be able to be used by the people they were actually for.

People talking about taking provisions away from disabled people is what’s puerile here.

Sirzy I agree. But some people want the world to revolve around their offspring. You don’t need a parent and child space. Be grateful you don’t need a blue badge.

Purple. No ones taking anything away that’s the point. It’s about sensibly allocating the few spaces that are available before 8am, 8 BB and two P&C...problem solved.

Yes you are.

Unlike others parking in a parent bay, you parking in a disabled one without a blue badge is an offence.

Re the pp talking about cars having grown.

At one point when my DCs were small I had an eight seater Peugeot. I still managed to back it into a normal parking space and get my three children out of it.

There were no P&C spaces. I didn't sit in my car after I'd parked wondering how I was going to get out with the children and the pushchair and anything else I needed. I just opened the door and got out.

Thesnobby maybe you haven’t RTFT then because the OP has suggested either swapping 2 BB spaces for P&C spaces which means that come 8am there will still be 10 BB spaces so no change there at all OR adding 2 P&C spaces on the end. Again same number of BB spaces.

And btw it’s not an offence in a private car park. BB’s are only valid in public car parks or bays.

Why mention it in store if not having a moan?

To point it that there is a problem with blocking off all the P&C spaces before 8am? You do realise it's possible to point out a problem without moaning don't you?

I’m sure they knew already.

7salmonswimming - your other posts have been removed due to your disgusting ableism.

The fact that you are still making vile, ableist posts really shows that you're not stupid, you actually know you're doing it and believe in what you are saying.

That is absolutely shocking.

What's the big deal

Again, come and say that to me when you've lived with chronic pain, a severe injury and a wheelchair.

What's the fucking big deal. The mind boggles.

I agree it is bloody annoying when all the parent spaces are taken, especially when theyre taken by people whos children arnt in car seats (the extra space is to allow for car seat access and safely strapping kids in)/people without kids/an adult and their mum who say "well he may be 32 but we're still parent and child". It does also seem the ratio of disabled to parent and child or even normal spaces is slightly out on occasion. I know our big tesco has 10 parent and child and 25 disabled spaces which always have more than half empty. However, i think shops may have to have a certain amount of disabled spaces depending on the size of the shop.
As much as these things annoy me and i really see where youre coming from there, nothing annoys me more than able bodied people parking in disabled spaces.
Someone also parked too close to my car the other day and i had to crawl in from the other side with my 5 week old. Not ideal but would never consider parking in a bb space

There is no big deal about parent and child spaces. It’s great when there’s one free.
Blue badge spaces? A lifeline.

Can't believe you even need to ask this OP.

It's shameful that you can even think this let alone start a thread about it.

It does also seem the ratio of disabled to parent and child or even normal spaces is slightly out on occasion. I know our big tesco has 10 parent and child and 25 disabled spaces which always have more than half empty... As much as these things annoy me

So fucking sorry that us disabled people have more spaces than you poor, poor parents.

Jesus fucking christ.

I genuinely can't believe people are suggesting taking things away from disabled people in order to make the lives of able bodied adults easier. The reason there are 10 spaces is because disabled people don't coordinate their shopping schedule. There may well be 10 people at any one time! Just because they aren't there at 8am on the dot doesn't mean they aren't going to come in drips and drabs throughout the morning and find that the fucking time and effort (and pain!) they have gone through to get there was a complete waste of time and energy.

THERE. IS. NEVER. AN. EXCUSE. TO. PARK. IN. DISABLED. PARKING. BAYS. UNLESS. YOU. ARE. DISABLED.

I never needed more space to put a baby/child in a seat, they are smaller than an adult.

If I was just nipping in I would have done it.

You must have a blue badge then, Jax.

Jaxtellerswife would you really or are you just being goady?