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To get SO SO SO angry about P&T spaces....

254 replies

Wilkie · 19/08/2007 17:53

I know, I know it has been done to death but honestly, some peopl are just fucking pig-ignorant.

Pulled up at Asda at the same time as a roughish middle aged couple, two P&T spaces available, I pulled into one, they pulled into another. Another car drove past with a young couple in and a tiny baby, looking for a space but obv couldn't park there as we had just taken last spaces.

Middle aged couple got out, stared at me as though to say 'so?' so I said 'I take it you have invisible children then??'

He said 'yeah actually' and sauntered off.

TWAT.

OP posts:
JodieG1 · 19/08/2007 21:58

Oh and when there are no p&t spaces and I have all 3 with me then I park at an angle through 2 spaces so I can actually get them in and out safely. I also have a knee and back problem which makes walking difficult for me and my knee often gives way (also affected by bad weather with more pain) but am not disabled so walking further makes it hurt more. Some days are worse than others so I never know what it will be like.

My dad is disabled (paralysed from the neck down) and he said to me that he wouldn't mind people with young children parking in the disabled spaces as he can see how hard it can be. I wouldn't do that and never have but he really believes it's ok.

margoandjerry · 19/08/2007 21:59

misdee arrives, just in time to add some much needed perspective to this thread

WanderingTrolley · 19/08/2007 22:00

What I nearly posted:

There are plenty of mumsnetters* who could tell you tales of abandoning trips due to lack of disabled parking.

*group size recently reduced by 1.

LadyVictoriaOfCake · 19/08/2007 22:02

i have had to do that yes WT, or tawl the car park looking an end space just to get dh out of the car.

but no more machine, ever ever ever again!

yippee!! no more back breaking getting dh in and out of the car, no more milatry operation, and best of all, dh will get his liscence back so he can take himself out! yay!!

WanderingTrolley · 19/08/2007 22:03

He can take you out, you mean.

LadyVictoriaOfCake · 19/08/2007 22:03

lol, that as well. but if he wants to go out, he can. he wont have to take anyone with him. so he can buy his stinky cheese all by himself

gess · 19/08/2007 22:09

Did loveangel think she was agreeing with me? How bizarre.

moo- never been called a silly cow before.

Do you lot that find shopping with children so hard claim DLA? Perhaps you should.

Misdee- enjoy the walk across the car park (and if you park in a blue badge space I'll slash ya' tyres )

2shoes · 19/08/2007 22:10

gess save your energy. this will happen again in about a month.

gess · 19/08/2007 22:12

2shoes. The monthly excursion of the princesses.....

LadyVictoriaOfCake · 19/08/2007 22:13

haha

2shoes · 19/08/2007 22:14

as I said to the lady in the bakn the other day(about me falling on my arse trying to get dd in the bank) we are all just a car crash away from a wheelchair. some nutter will always say on these threads that parking in a disabled bay is ok.........

gess · 19/08/2007 22:16

ah but they have babies you know, and car seats (crazed emoticon) Misdee pmsl.

2shoes · 19/08/2007 22:17

don't forget the babies are made out of sugar as well.

sparklygothkat · 19/08/2007 22:18

and babies rust if they get wet!!

2shoes · 19/08/2007 22:19

do they shrink as well???

LadyVictoriaOfCake · 19/08/2007 22:19

and they rust in the rain.

oh if only it was a baby i had to take in the rain. i bet they dont short circuit if they got wet (but no need to worry about that now)

last week when doing some stuff for channel 5, it started raining lightly, so i said we would have togo back in, reporter didnt quite understand till i pointed out that dh was currently connected to a big box of electricial equipment and wasnt really suited to wet weather.

gess · 19/08/2007 22:22

OMG misdee- did his equipment have a raincoat

2shoes · 19/08/2007 22:23

lol I always wonder about dd's powered chair in the rain(yes I know I am being thick)

LadyVictoriaOfCake · 19/08/2007 22:23

his machine didnt have a raincover. we carried a black bag for emergencies lol.

gess · 19/08/2007 22:24

OMG- this is a whole new world..... I think you;d be right to worry in the recent weather. And I'm guessing without power its a bugger to move. Incidentally have been pondering a thread but does your dd use any sort of VOCA or symbol device that powers speech????

gess · 19/08/2007 22:25

an LVAD umbrella misdee

LadyVictoriaOfCake · 19/08/2007 22:28

like a golf umbrella?

i have no idea on your one 2shoes, i know my uncle recently repaired a mobility scooter (he smashed his leg up in a pushbike incident and has a frame round his leg). he was given it, it had broken down as the circuits had gotton wet.

JodieG1 · 19/08/2007 22:28

I remember when my dad didn't have an electric wheelchair as they couldn't get one and my mum had to transfer him in and out of the car (when I was young, up to age 10ish I think) and it was so hard for her and him. Thankfully he has an electric one now but people park behind regardless of the sticker on their car so the ramp can't extend.

2shoes · 19/08/2007 22:28

gess. were you asking me? if so they tried it but she had trouble with her switches. she is now trying head switches and it is going well so they will try again later.

2shoes · 19/08/2007 22:29

jodie tell me about it....i live in dread of not being able to get her back in the car. as if I am on my own I would be well stuck.