to be disgusted by the total moron parents who left a note on the car windscreen of my disabled parents' car

[TheDullWitch]

My parents, in their mid-80s, both who walk with sticks (my dad who just had a stroke) went to the supermarket. Since all the disabled spaces were filled and they struggle to walk more than a few yards, they parked in a parent and child space and left their disabled badge in the window.

When they returned to their car the following was written on a note on their windscreen. "This space is for parents, you stupid old bastards." This total and utter XXXX must have seen them struggle to walk and still thought that their own right to walk able-bodied with their toddler into a store was more important.

My mum and dad, who are gentle, kind people are so upset. I am so disgusted and upset.

SHAME ON YOU WHOEVER YOU ARE! SHAME ON YOU!

lollopops Outrageous, shocking, horrible people.

lollopops . That's hideous. What the hell was going on there?!

(Bitoffun, just caught your post when I refreshed again - I appear to have just said exactly what you did )

I agree with scottishmummy, FGS calm down. MNer has JOB! No need to faint. And a bit rude to bang on about how you think she's not very good at her job. Have some manners.

lollopops that is abysmal! Am too to even think of anything else to say. for you (even though you have got over it)

Horrible note by small-minded people.

I'm however just as shocked by some of the nasty comments on here about DullWitch being a journalist. For heaven's sake, so it's ok to discriminate against some occupations even though the person has done nothing wrong?

Please don't change your user name or stop posting about anything that you might or might not write about later - your life, and you can surely decide who to tell when and how often!

YANBU and hope the person who left the note reads the Times and feels very ashamed!

Totally agree with your article Janice and in fact always agree with your columns(fawn).

Hello Janice/ Dullwitch,

I enjoyed reading your article and didn't think it was vile at all as someone else had mentioned on the other thread. It's a pity that you didn't mention parents letting their children eat grapes, crisps and bread rolls in the supermarkets as well.

I thought that the article was spot on. Parenthood does indeed turn people into twats.

Don't change your name Dullwitch.

So tiredemma, would you say that you and all your good friends are twats? I wouldn't have been so harsh

Do you lot know how many journalists there are on mumsnet? Let alone journalists, but journalists' wives/partners? And politicians and politicians' wives/partners?

loadsa loadsa loadsa

now stop tormenting the poor woman and go to the 'in the news' thread on the vouchers so you can congratulate me for predicting Labour's U-turn on them

article

I'm a journalist too. Am also a mum, wino, old fogey, shopaholic, gossipmonger, Lost fan and affacianado of crap TV generally. I have an elderly mum who gets into many a scrape and kids/partner who drive me mad. Oh yes, and I'm quite addicted to MN.

Just to let you know.

pecanpie, I doubt if the person who left that note does much reading at all!

Lost fan?

im a journalist too

a journalist of LIFE arf
a nd I am married to a politican - the Machiavelli of fammily relationshsips.

I know...embarrassing or what!!!!

This is why Lush

That's so awful. It's the twats blocking the disabled spaces with their fancy cars (not being nasty but I see it every day) who should get the horrible note on their car (and boy have I been tempted!).

Personally I feel like a complete fraud for using P&C parking spaces with my 11 week old. I would far rather that people with mobility problems could use the spaces closest to the door. I feel fine and actually am perfectly capable of parking at the far end of the car park which is never full. If I were still in the situation of having three under 5s I would feel very differently about using them, for all the reasons outlined above- ie space not to bark the cars either side when opening doors, ability to convey feral toddlers to other side of car park without them getting squashed, etc...

I may feel differently again when this one is more feral and mobile, but since there's only one of her, I rate my chances of staying in charge quite high. I definitely think that two octogenarians with mobility problems trump fit young (or even not so young) parents any time.

Some people are just foul and require ignoring. I'm sure that your parents are wise enough, TDW, to know that.

Personally I thought TDW's article was fine. It was written by her, not cut n pasted. I thought it was far far worse for one of her colleagues at the Times a couple of years ago to basically cut and paste the blog of a friend of mine into her weekly column and get paid for it when my friend was struggling by on a Phd grant and wrote hers for free. That was exceedingly lazy journalism, but this isn't imo.

justa re the BFing in church, I have been on the other thread and so hadn't seen the authors comment, and read the article as you did. Which is how everyone reading the paper who is not a MNer will have read it.

What was written in the article was the reverse to what was written on here.