just had a go at some bloke in tesco car park.

[misdee]

stopped to pick up a few items on way to dropping kids off at nursery. dh couldnt come in with me as disabled bays were fall so had to park far away. i was walking past disabled bays and noticed a young looking business man type getting out of his audi TT, inspect the car but he had no badge. i asked him if he was disabled, he said 'no but there are no other spaces'. i then said 'there are loads of spaces, your just being an ignorant git,' and i then reprted him at customer services and pointed him out at the same time.

Well done misdee....I'd have parked behind his car so he couldn't move it

Good for you-that kind of selfishness drives me nuts!! (I would have been tempted to run a key along the side of his car-going a bit too far possibly?)
Another good one is to leave a note tucked under the windscreen wiper, telling the guilty party wahat a lazy t**t he is (usually a he isn't it?)

i dont drive, and dh had already parked. i was fuming!!

i rekon he just didnt want to get his shiney TT scratched by other cars.

I'd love to have the courage to say something like that soemtimes.

Good for you! Did the shop actually do anything about it though?

no idea. i did speak to them and tell them where the car was, but doubt they did anything in time. think he only went in to get sandwich. but he was just so ignorant.

i would've keyed his car but i'd get into trouble. btw i blame pregnancy hormones.

Good for you. Did you have one of the kids with you?? If so you should have brought them one of the cheap 88p cars they sell in tesco and let you child drive it down the side of this pillocks precious TT. I wouldn't have the balls to do it myself but it's a nice thought.

I had an argument with an arrogant cow who'd parked in parent and child the other week.

Well done Misdee.

I firmly believe that what goes around comes around.He may find himself needing a disabled parking space in the future,only to find them full of perfectly ablebodied folk's cars.

Well done

People like that really drive me nuts.

woodpops, thats an idea for future erference me thinks lol.

i really hate when people do this you see it all the time... the same with mother and baby spaces !!! i saw a builders van with one guy sat in eating a butty parked in a mother and baby space i went and knocked on his window and asked him why he was parked there?? he just looked at me with dd in my arms and then moved his van!!i am getting very bolshy in my old age lol

its alot worse with disabled spaces though so selfish!!

Good for you misdee! I would probably have been too cowardly to say anything and spent the afternoon berating myself . Perhaps if more people who do this are challenged more often they may think twice. You should be very proud

Dh had a woman flip at him once because he was in a van and parked in parent and child. Never mind the fact that ds was strapped into his seat next to dh.

At my supermarket parent and child spaces are closer to the shop than disabelled so you get alot of disabelled parking in parent and child and the disabelled spaces are always empty, yet on the few ocasions that I have parked in desabelled with ds and dd you can guarentee an old git will have a go. Yeah, yeah, whatever!!!!

I mentioned something to the older guy in the Jag who parked next to me in Sainsburys, saying did he realise that this was parent parking. Only blind me didn't see the woman clambering in the back on the other side to get her first stage car seat out the back. He just said Yeah I know and nodded towards the back seat. How embarassing!

told my mum earlier when she phoned and she told me to be careful in case he hit me.

That's exactly what my mum would say

Well done you misdee - I too once reported someone who had parked in the disabled space at Boots - so they went to get the manager - and guess who it was???? yes the effing person who'd parked in the space!!!! I told her to get her car shifted immediately and that she should have been ashamed of herself!

misdee, well done you! (I'm trying to go on other bits of mumsnet, not just special needs, I hope you'll notice)...
DD's therapist and I have had many a Thelma and Louise moment with people parked in disabled bays with no badge.

When I was about 10 months pregnant i went to sainsburys. Didn't have dd with me so didn't park in their parents spaces as they are marked for "parents with small children" not mums to be (like the safeway ones). This woman pulls into the parents space and gets out accompanied by her daughters of about 14 and 16 years. When i said to her that her kids were NOT what was meant by small children, she looked at me and said "well they ARE small for their ages"

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