to be a bit irked about disabled badge holders using mum and baby spaces

[mousemole]

I am not sure why I am irked because clearly having a disabled badge means you have a need to park near a supermarket. But when all the mum and child spaces are gone, and I am struggligng with baby and toddler, and see a man with a blue badge RUN from his car in the pouring rain to Sainsburys whilst I can't get a space I have to admit to feeling P*ssed off. Oh and I also dont understand why totally able bodied senior citizens feel they have the right to park in them either.
Rant over.

trixie, good point. I would never ever park in a disabled bay, but it's rubbish for badge holders if non badge holders take their spaces. Bet DH has done it !

oh dear you know you will have a row, don't you?

why don't they have spaces for elderly people - seems reasonable.

Disability or baby - what's harder I wonder ummmm

Some people who need to use wheelchairs can actually run at times you know. Few threads on mumsnet make me feel quite the way these do. Such ignorance.

Maybe the man running was actually picking up a disabled relative from the supermarket, hence needing to be close to the store?

Holders of disabled badges can park in any space, should they wish. M&B spaces are provided as a gesture by the supermarket, they are not a right.

This thread is a really good example of why parent and child spaces should not exit.

I'd (genuinely) like to know what the point of a M&B space is, exactly?

I mean, what is really that difficult about walking across a carpark with a baby/toddler/both? I really don't get this one at all

yes unsuspecting me !! Just posting on a genuine AIBU ?! Clearly I am. Signing off now. Too much PMT for big battle. Have decided a few things though

1. A blue badge with a person in a wheelchair is not an accurate depiction of the wide range of visibilities. To most I think it implies a visible physical disability which clearly isn't always the case
2. Mother and baby spaces should be abolished - they create too many issues !

DS1 is athletic. He also has a blue badge; he qualifies because he received higher rate care component of DLA and is 'severely mentally disabled and has severe behavioural problems'.

If you think you should qualify because of ME then apply. There's nothing in the rules about wheelchairs - it's about being able to walk unaided (which ds1 cannot do).

Dd can also run a few metres to a shop entrance- but needs to use a wheelchair if it's longer.

The other day we took Grandma to Tesco's. She is 82 and paralysed from the waist downwards. And no disabled parking spaces available.

Ridiculous to compare her situation to that of a Mum with kids. Non-disabled kids are either old enough to walk or small enough to pick up and carry under your arm. Try doing that to a hefty 82yo lady!

Desperately seeking sanity - no it's not legal to leave the disabled person in the car (parked in disabled space) while the non-disabled person/ driver nips out to do something - that's what my booklet says, anyway.

hercules and notnowbernard, our posts crossed and that is exactly my conclusion - they create far too much contention. But now I am think there should be spaces for elderely people as it breaks my heard when you see an old lady/man struggling with their shopping across a big car park in the rain etc.

Our Sainsburys have introduced a section of wider spaces. They are equidistant to the shop as the P&C spaces and have eradicated the issue of childless people parking in the P&C ones.

I think it's about distance able to walk not wether asissted or not.

Perhaps now you will give people the benefit of the doubt.

sounds like mother and baby spaces should be given over to more disabled spaces. Man running was definitely driver of car and on his own.

Admittedly M&B spaces are handy when the rest of the car park is busy and you are as shite at reverse parking as I am

personally I think m&t spaces should be got rid of.

or located at the furthest end of the carpark. (the space is for the wider access - no?) bet people wouldn't be so keen to park in them then ey.

Are you serious???

I've never found that having two children has put me at a greater mobile disatvantage than somebody who is actually physically disabled.

Show a little compassion