old people and child spaces

[codswallop]

please domt let me get old..
why are old people so rude when you remind them they are parking in kid spaces?

one old git just told me 2 not to have them then" as the wallops ran thru the rain.

If we were as rude s this we would get the "WW2 we fought for you" bah blah..

CathB

I have left my son asleep in the car, and gone into the house, but only when I can park the car where I can see it from my window.

Otherwise I've had a nap in the front seat while ds finishes his nap, but my neighbour knocked on the window, apparnetly concerned that something was wrong, She woke us both up, and ds was cranky for the rest of the day

The only thing I can physically do is swimming right now, so having just back I am fuming about waiting outside the only disable changing room for 25 minutes, finally deciding that I should knock, seeing a young woman open the door, holding her makeup, obviously in the middle of applying it, and simply saying, 'Oh' then taking her stuff and leaving....

I know its not an old people and child spaces rant, but I felt that I needed to vent

easy

I appreciate the problem but if there had been an adult around I would not have been worried. When dd was at that age I would have done the same as you and have a kip myself (now dd is to be prevented from sleeping in the day at all). I was more aggrieved at being told off. I was only trying to help....

Pie,
I agree with you, this sort of thing drives me mad.

I can't get changed in the stupid tiny cubicle that is provided for everyone else, so get really bothered when perfectly able bodied people use disabled changing rooms (esp when they leave the floor sopping wet and slippy after they have finished too, I always mop up with my towel when I've finished for the next person). I keep thinking I'll just use the comunnal area, and let everyone see my manky scars, that'll put 'em off.

But it's like the usual rant I have about disable parking spaces being abused. My dh has posed as a sainsbury's manager before now to help a trolly boy persuade a fit bloke to shift his car from a disabled space (is it an offence, posing as a supermarket manager?).

BTW, what is SPD? presumably something spinal. Have just read your other thread, hope things improve soon.

SPD is symphisis pubis dysfunction.

I know of a car park in Scotland where there are many spaces reserved for women drivers. I presume this means there are extra security guards, or CCTV covering this area, but I did wonder if the spaces were bigger...

Have to confess to having left dd in car asleep but put intercom in car and could see car when I passed the front window and car is alarmed, however when I mentioned to dh he went balistic so didn't do it again!