God this is an odd thread.
Someone earlier shared their experience that four springy looking young chaps drew up in a car, parked brazenly in a parking space that the landowner has designated for customers they would like to offer assistance to...then run around the store purchasing beer...and the response from people piling in is
"you don't know if one of them had a hidden disability".
OK...
So here's my question.
Should shops (their parking attendants, wardens, or shop staff chosen to look after car parks) ignore or refuse to challenge anyone who parks in these spaces without children, due to the fact that it's impossible to know (and therefore prove) if one of those people had a hidden disability?
I'm just curious because therefore it's impossible to manage them, therefore it's no longer worth having them.
I'm going to dare to say this though, but there are child-free people I know who have parked in them, and they don't have any "hidden disability", they're just people who hate the idea someone else could have something and they're missing out, so they take the best space.
That's it. Nothing more, nothing less.
They just wanted the space.
Fair enough, but can we acknowledge these people exist too, the "give me what I'm entitled to rather than favouring parents", instead of sheltering them under the umbrella of "they could have a hidden.."
because the people I've mentioned above, I've known some of them for twenty years, closely. They don't have any disability. So if I know those folk, there's probably a lot more like them.