Parking space rant *ooh contentious thread alert*

[Glitterknickaz]

Well.... being as DS2 has mobility issues (to the extent that he gets higher mobility DLA for it) I decided it would be well worth getting the blue badge. Trying to load him in his major buggy is a job and a half sometimes anyway, if you can't get a p&c space then it's been flipping awful.

Now I am faced with pithy looks and actually verbal abuse for using the blue badge spaces. I hate to say it but more often that not it has been the elder members of the public that have berated me/given me looks/tutted at me.

We have a genuinely acquired badge, we are entitled to use the space. Yes I might be a sprightly 30 year old but the badge isn't mine it's my son's and I don't abuse it, if he's not with me I don't use the badge simple as.

I dunno maybe the major doesn't look much different to a regular maclaren or something?

I'm just sick of getting abuse every time we go out.

LOL Dev.

I have thought with the whole safety-and s1 is on reins-i'dgladly swap my entire mobility allowance X 2 for a blue badge ( it is logical isn't it that 2 kids getting lower rate mobility will be more of a risk than one? I can only dart in somnt directions at once, and I cant separate a fight and chase ds2 sadly). But thats not the rulesso I don't park there. Ever.

My son has global development delay, and doesnt always understand. We also have the problem of behavoural difficulties when he just goes crazy for no reason, but we dont have a badge, thats y when we park we have to go to the back of the car park so we are not parked next to another car, in case he does have an outburst, thats y sometimes when i can get a mother and baby space its so much easier, cos its near the doors and have lots of room