Grrr - blue badge

Guapa1

LittleTinker wrote: »

The reason is....on one hand every one here is saying ....

"You have to make a stand and challenge people parking in BB spaces. We have to stick together to make sure only the right people use them!"

So....people get challenged....and then you get people saying.....

"I was stared at again today and then someone came marching over and peered into my window to check I had a Badge! Oh, didnt they seem sheepish when they saw mine"

I guess they havent cottoned on yet that they are getting annoyed by the very people who they are cheering on!! :rotfl:

You couldnt make it up, could you!? :rolleyes:

:rotfl:I see what you mean. Maybe it's the tone though? Like Edale said there is no need for rudeness, it gets peoples backs up. I don't have a BB yet (there's a backlog in my council :rolleyes:), but if someone came up to me demanding an explanation I'll respond a lot differently to someone who comes up to me and has a look at my badge and says 'oooh you look way to young for one of those'.
What would then probably happen is neither of us get any shopping done because I'll start chatting!

Pete268

Broken_hearted wrote: »

I'm getting nothing googling BBA apart from a close site. Sorry you have not found the radar system of use we love ours.

There is the Blue Badge Network which is in existence:

http://www.bluebadgenetwork.org/

I joined a couple of years back and get an interesting newsletter periodically amongst other bits.

There is also Mobilise, the Disabled Drivers Association:

http://www.mobilise.info/


Peter

Valley's_girl

Thorntonone wrote: »

I agree why cant people just get on with there own live, and mind there own business.
i am 50 with a blue badge and a dodgy heart, so i cant walk very far on most days.
it always seems to be the over 65,s that want to challenge me when i park up in a disabled bay {why}.

This is a topic that makes my blood boil:mad:

I agree with you.
I went to sainsburys today haven't been out for ages my son drove. Ds starts loading the boot after we had done our shopping.
In the disable bay next to us a woman looked at my son and starts shaking her head and giving him the dirtiest of looks. My son shouts over to her yes we do have a blue badge, so I turned around to her and said you don't have to have a walking stick to be disabled. She then said I never said anything, I felt so sorry for her son he didn't know where to look.
Afterwards on the way home I felt so upset.

That's my rant over
Best wishes

Ally

LittleTinker

Guapa1 wrote: »

:rotfl:I see what you mean. Maybe it's the tone though? Like Edale said there is no need for rudeness, it gets peoples backs up. I don't have a BB yet (there's a backlog in my council :rolleyes:), but if someone came up to me demanding an explanation I'll respond a lot differently to someone who comes up to me and has a look at my badge and says 'oooh you look way to young for one of those'.
What would then probably happen is neither of us get any shopping done because I'll start chatting!

Ahh Yes.....Tone.

Another thing that we make assumptions about others with.....their 'tone'

Many of these people who are BB holders are in pain.....they have a difficult time of it most of the time, they are short tempered far more often than they like and very cross with the world and its unfairness.

All lot of them struggle to get past 'heavy' brains, Fibro Fog and general wooziness....sometimes resulting in a 'clipped' tone. Sometimes these people just cannot express themselves well at all.

Sometimes.....just sometimes....theses 'tones' are no more than normal to the disabled person....and other people,.....other disabled people ought to, at least, have a small amount of understanding.

It makes us think, doesnt it? 'Tones' not tolerated by the very people who ought to understand the most.

schmoo

I have had MS for over 15 years or so, but I only applied for a BB a few years ago as my MS symptoms had worsened meaning that I was having problems walking even a short distance. I was at the time about 35, and to a casual observer looking at me when I was not walking, it would appear as though there was nothing wrong with me. Add to this the fact that at the time I was driving a Celica (a sporty looking coupe) and you can imagine the looks, tuts and comments that I got when I parked in a disabled bay! :rotfl:

On a few occasions, when I got out of the car I did comment to the tutter that it was me that was disabled - not the car!

schmoo

longhotbath

Hi - sorry ds1 went to a birthday party - on a steam train - oodles of wheelchair space and a lift. It was fantstic!!

Its the Blue Badge Network that we belong to - www.bluebadgenetwork.org
seems to be run mainly by the older generation, but they have always been great with us.

With disabled loos - radar ones, my son cant use a loo - he has to use a changing table, and he is far to long for the baby ones so he has to go on the floor

longhotbath

Hi - that link doesnt work either!!!

I have just googled it - the blue badge network is http://web.ukonline.co.uk/bluebadgenetwork

Hopefully that will work - sorry for all the confusion!

Guapa1

LittleTinker wrote: »

Ahh Yes.....Tone.

Another thing that we make assumptions about others with.....their 'tone'

Many of these people who are BB holders are in pain.....they have a difficult time of it most of the time, they are short tempered far more often than they like and very cross with the world and its unfairness.

All lot of them struggle to get past 'heavy' brains, Fibro Fog and general wooziness....sometimes resulting in a 'clipped' tone. Sometimes these people just cannot express themselves well at all.

Sometimes.....just sometimes....theses 'tones' are no more than normal to the disabled person....and other people,.....other disabled people ought to, at least, have a small amount of understanding.

It makes us think, doesnt it? 'Tones' not tolerated by the very people who ought to understand the most.

But you could always swing it round and say that the person challenging should know how awful it feels and show some understanding too. Strangers cannot tell what and what isn't normal for someone, pain affects people in different ways. All I'm trying to say is if we all make a little effort, it doesn't have to turned into a slanging match.

black_paw

car in local tesco disabled spot had note on car dash staying ... carer on call ....yes and no BB ...terrible

cceg

My son age 5 has had a blue badge for 2 years now due to severe autism. To be honest, i am pretty fed up wth remarks about how he shouldnt have a blue badge because he can walk.
Yes he can walk, but he doesnt understand danger and doesnt think twice about laying in road to get a good view of a car reg plate or running off.

Just because my son has a hidden disability, that doesnt give people the right to ask ' which on is disabled ' when we go out as a family.
He is in a special needs buggy most of the time, but people still fail to see this. ARGH!!!!!