To be mildly annoyed people abuse BB parking spaces?

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I went out today for the first time in a while. I have a BB and was lucky to be able to get a space since I kept seeing parents parking there and getting out prams. No badges in the windows

I was mildly annoyed tbh but I was also a saddened that people feel they can use a blue badge bay without one!

Do you have a blue badge?

But you're not allowed to park in BB spaces. Park at the back where there's usually 2 spaces together

It is absolutely NOT the same as people using P&C spaces.

Please think about what you are doing and stop, disabled people NEED those spaces.

You have options that they do not.

On private land it is up to the owner to enforce (or not)/ BB spaces are often requirements of p[lanning permission and therefore legally enforceable by the owner of the land. P&C spaces are never enforceable - they have no statutory existence and are only advisory.

Longest sentence ever I do not understand what you mean please use punctuation next time

Shame on you.

If you or your dd are disabled, then apply for your own blue badge. If you're not, then you absolutely shouldn't be parking in a blue badge space under any circumstances.

P a C are not the same at all. Just park further away across 2 spaces and walk, disabled spaces need to be closer to the store. Pram problem solved.

Was your lack of punctuation in your reply supposed to be ironic? 😂

She is saying she is she is selfish and entitled with no regard for disabled people.

I don't understand why they don't put the P&C spaces further away from the entrance. Parents generally don't need to be close, but they do need space to unload kids and prams.

It's unacceptable.
I am currently (hopefully!) temporarily disabled following surgery. I was in a wheelchair initially, then on crutches non weightbearing for a couple of months, now partial weight bearing. So I have real, significant mobility problem for the time being. But I still wouldn't dream of parking in a disabled bay - I don't have a blue badge and I am not legally entitled to use them. So I don't, end of story. I don't think there's any excuse.

I get a lot more than mildly annoyed! It makes me absolutely furious.

People who use disabled bays when they don't have a blue badge are utterly selfish and bloody lazy. It happens so often.

For those calling them 'courtesy spaces' in, for example, supermarkets where they won't be ticketed, well, one day you might need the disabled bays for real and you'll realise just how necessary they are.

And if there are no P & C spaces, parents, go park further away where you can get your car doors open. You're not disabled. Probably an unpopular opinion on here, bit I don't care.

I'd have taken.

She is saying she is she is selfish and entitled with no regard for disabled people.

You've got it wrong. Pp is simply expressing solidarity with op. Those cheeky buggers park in P and C so parents need to take the disabled spaces ✊

She totally gets it
(So close)

The two aren't comparable

@MaidOfSteel That's exactly what they are, I'm afraid. A disabled bay painted in white is a 'courtesy' space.

As said above, I have a blue badge and allocated space painted outside my house. It's painted white. So anyone can park in it. And they do. It's is referred to as a 'courtesy space'.

It was sarcasm, at the absurdity of pp.

A while back my elderly mum fell and broke her hip.
She can barely walk and has a walking frame.
I took her to the hospital last week for her outpatient appointment, I parked in a disabled space which was much closer to the clinic than the normal spaces.
I also park in parent spaces when she's with me as they're much nearer the doors.
I'm unrepentant.

It’s not comparable at all. Child and parent spaces are not a necessity, having a child is not disabling. It’s irritating not something that could mean you have to go home if there’s not an appropriate space like if you have a disability.

You’re an absolute selfish prick and I hope you get fined one day.

It’s not too bad in my area and whilst blue badge spaces can sometimes be hard to come across most people have a badge displayed.

However I had a hospital apt a few days ago at a massive hospital with multiple car parks. We got there early as we knew parking would be a nightmare as always is at hospitals. Not a single car park space available in the hospital at all, we drove around for 25 minutes looking. All disabled spaces taken and about 80% of them with no badge. Ended up having to drive out of the hospital and park on double yellows on a street next door which was a nightmare.

I can see that’s very annoying.

My local supermarket has allocated the 50 spaces nearest the supermarket door as disabled spaces. But this expected army of disabled shoppers never seems to arrive, and they’re always 90% empty. It really annoys me having to park further away and trudging through the rain past all the empty disabled spaces. It was particularly annoying when I had a leg injury for months! I am beginning to wonder if I should just start parking in them. I can see that once you start doing that you’d just give up on respecting reserved spaces anywhere.

A lady told us the other week it was perfectly ok for her to take the last blue badge space as she had twins and there were no parent and child spaces left.
I pointed out quite calmly that she needed to have a badge or could get fined.
She was talking on the phone to somebody and told them I was having a go at her because she wanted to park in a disabled bay. She then decided she would move, so I'm not sure if they told her she couldn't.

I can't believe some people think having children is the same as being disabled. Really???