to get annoyed at parents who treat disabled parking bays as de facto parent & child bays?

[MsHighwater]

Our council-run local leisure centre, where I take dd to a toddler group, has several disabled parking bays but no parent & child bays. I NEVER park in a disabled bay - I work for the council and used to issue the blue parking badges so am very aware of the rules - but I've noticed that a lot of the other parents with toddlers treat the disabled parking bays as de-facto parent & child bays. I think it's wrong. What do you think?

Oh my god if i read any more about parking spaces my head is going to explode!

Nope YANBU. I'd never park in the disabled space (but would use a disabled loo if I couldn't fit the pushchair in a normal one - you only use it for a couple of minutes and it's not like nobody can find you to move your car. Sorry, slight hijack.)

didnt we have this last week?
and last month?

Sorry, I'm not here that often so how do I know what you talked about last week?

I do agree with you, NO-ONE should use the disabled bays as P&T bays, its selfish!

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Groundhog Day.

I avoid the problem of parking bays altogether by always parking slap bang in the middle of the road.

Everyone else can just effing drive around me, I was there first and I'm specialler than the rest of you.

I don't care what anyone else thinks.

YANBU
anyone who parks in a disabled bay when they or their passenger do not have a disability should have their car crushed

Doodledootoo, 246 messages and counting in that thread. Life too short! Anyway, I'm not talking about abuse of parent & child spaces but about parents abusing disabled parking spaces.

Its ok if you only have 1 child to get out. I went on an outing (I am a childminder) with 2 two yr olds, 1 19mth old and a 4yr old in my zafira. I parked in a normal slot but came back to find the car next to me had parked so close that the 19 mth old could not get in. I had to ask a complete stranger to hold her hand so I could manouvre the car to get her in. (luckily she is my own so had the person abducted her it would be my problem) The answer being no not usually but I feel like it for the safety of the children I look after. Also when they bail out they are forced to stand at the back of the car which is in the line of traffic, as there is little room down the side.

PS there are lots of people with disabled badges who were never entitled to them anyway. I'm a nurse and have met many people registered disabled that are no more disabled than you or I but can play the system much better

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tori32 of course you have dear....... how dare disabled people want to go out

tori32 of course you have dear....... how dare disabled people want to go out

I had three kids 15 months and under and would never, ever, ever use a disabled space, never, no excuse at all.

Hard hat?
Check.

Popcorn?
Check.

Clear pathway to bunker?
Check.

Hard hat?
Check.

Popcorn?
Check.

Clear pathway to bunker?
Check.

three blue badges?
Check

whys it always get exciting when im about to go to bed?

Fashioned blue badges to disc shape to hurl, frisbee fashion, in case of attack?

i sharpen the corners of the kids blue badges to a neat point. as i find them easier to shove up peoples noses that way

Do not shove your kids up people's noses.

can dd run them over in her powered chair.?

tori32 - I have also met people who have, but don't "deserve", blue badges. I could even probably bet that I've issued badges to some of them (the rules and the resources available for processing applications sometimes meant taking slightly dubious info at face value) BUT
I still think about the disabled person for whom no disabled parking space means an aborted trip to wherever and NO hope of respite from that situation.

blue badges are just so easy to get hold off