to have shouted at the woman who told me I should move from a disabled bay?

[MABS]

Am totally livid at this moment,just wondered if you agree with me tho? Have never ever started an aibu thread before.

Parked at Sainsburys in disabled bay, blue badge clearly on windscreen,disabled ds and dd too in back of car.

I got out of driver's door, walked to boot of car to get my handbag out, to be greeted my a torrent of abuse from a woman on crutches in next car.

I explained I was about to unload disabled ds, but she went off on one totally about how i should be parked in Parent and Toddlers as i had kids with me. I said again he was disabled, she then shouted that i should still be parked in M&T!

At that point, afraid i lost it and shouted at her big time to mind her own bloody business and get her facts straight next time. oops

Blimey. Don't blame you for shouting when she wouldn't stop.

YANBU.
Bloody cow!

That's disgraceful, nosy bitch cow. I would have done the same thing.

Good for you! so would I have done in your situation! Nosey old bint!

Interesting twist to an old MN favourite!

So are disabled spaces for disabled Over 18s only?

Yanbu cheeky mare. Well done you for standing up to her. I accept that she may have had to park elsewhere on occasions if people didn't respect the disabled bay rules, but she should have backed down when she saw your ds and your badge.
Deep breath and relax.

God what a cow! You were right. She shouldn't be allowed to go round yelling at people and not expect to be yelled back at.

thanks all, am a bit calmer now, but was really upset after, particularly as dd and ds saw it all, tho i don't think they heard a lot of it thankfully.

Silly old mare. She might think twice before having a go next time.

Don't blame you MABS, I would have done exactly the same.

how ignorant of her. first she prejudges you, then she lacks to grace to apologise. i would have done the same.

Bloody hell. My throat is aching to shout at this woman too.

Sounds like a complete nutter, i picture her sitting and waiting at bay for anyone who looks able bodied, so she can pounce on them. She quite obviously has ishoos.

i like that image of her sitting there waiting to pounce. Do you think that means she uses a disabled bay unnecesarily all day then?

you should have kicked one of her crutches away and said "just checking" then stalked off

(only joking)

on a serious note, maybe she didn't see your badge and had had numerous times when some ignoramous had parked there and saw red on this occasion?

tossers all the god damn time in our local tescos, swanning about with no respect (or blue badge)

I can understand your anger and YANBU but maybe a teeny tiny benefit of the doubt for the old biddy?

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She is probably feeling bad about it in retrospect.

I'm sorry this happened to you but I think i can understand where she is coming from. I find so many people completely abusing the disabled bays and it does make me really angry. A massive 4X4 was parked skew whiff in a disabled bay at my local supermarket and I so nearly, nearly did something awful to it. But then i tried to take a deep breath and thought, maybe he/she has forgotten to display the badge and I should just walk away....

It doesn't excuse what this woman did to you but she may have just had so many bad experiences that she took out her frustrations on you.

YANBU

It wasn't even as if you took her space.

I am quite interested in her using a space and not getting out of the car actually.

not at all.......the cheeky cow . People can be registered disabled for a myriad of reasons (not always physically obvious) and the badge can also be for a passenger and not the driver. she was being very rude and objectionable.

pmsl at oliveoil

YANBU, but I know at our local tescos they tell mums with kids to park in the disabled bays when the mum and baby bays are full. She obviously misjudged you.

I don't blame you in the slightest.

We have a blue badge for DD aged 4. We haven't been verbally challenged yet but regularly get some funny looks when we park in a disabled space and I hop out. I think a lot of people assume that 1, it has to be the driver that is disabled, 2, you can only be disabled if you are over 65, and 3, you have to be a wheelchair user.

I have a few comments stored up should I need them!

I have had a blue badge for ages now. I was in Tesco car park one day when a woman came running up to me telling me I shouldn't be parked there. I pointed out that she was parked in the bay next to me and she could run. She said she was entitled as her husband had fought in the war! I replied "Well my Husband is still fighting the bloddy wars and when I can run as well as you I will give my blue badge back!"
YANBU some people just have the cheek of the bloody devil. But like I say noone knows what tomorrow will bring and they might need the disabled bay one day and hopefully an able bodied person will be in it.

No DaddyJ, over 5 - the age you can use P&B till

Something that annoys me is when people only see a wheelchair or lack of as being whether or not a person is disabled. My brother is entitled to a blue badge (he doesn't have one) but I bet he is fitter than most people here and could out walk or run most of us.

maybe I was a bit hard on her Oliveoil,but she really should have checked before starting shouting. The Blue badge was clear and she should have seen it .

BUT, if she genuinely thought i was an abuser,shouldn't she have made a point of checking first if one was there.

I shouted very clearly that as I was 'lucky enough' to have a disabled child,I could park wherever i fancied - disabled or M&T !!! ooops, maybe i did go over the top.