Grrr - blue badge

black_paw

The Spoon Theory i have been given this and is very good . gets people to understand you more ....but out parking today using BB, as been frighten to do so,as even i have good list to show where to park the brain say no ...another story .. parked in toen in disabled bay , but on way back noticed a BB car parked on double yellow lines with a parking ticket on it ! ...why...he forgot to see if chevons ( kerb side yellow lines ) where there ..yes they where ,,poor chap

matelot123

nanokitten wrote: »

I have to say parent and child spaces annoy me as they eat in to spaces where you used to put disabled ones.

They have clearly been invented to protect the supermarket from the small theoretical risk of litigation if a child was run over rather than by working out how easy it is for folks to cover the distance.

actually i think its more likely they were invented for safety reasons as well as practical reasons. Even the most well behaved child is capapble of being unthinking enough to swing a door open wide and hit the car next door.Getting children out of cars can also mean you need to open the door wide and whats really so wrong about wanting to protect children however small the risk?

perhaps able bodied motorists think disabled bays eat into the spaces where they used to be able to park its all relative isnt it? i think one group of motorists with catered for special needs bashing another is pretty counter productive to be honest

LeglessLiam

CherylthePeril wrote: »

Having twice today being approached and verbally abused by what I call the gray hair !!!!! for having the cheek to park, using my blue badge, in a disabled bay at Tesco, I am really hacked off with those old fogeys who think it is their duty to police blue badge bays.I don't mind the police or council wardens and car park wardens checking but these old people go out of their way to seee if I am really disabled - my crime it seems is losing a leg at the age of twenty six.and also having the cheek to drive a new BMW. I had barely come to a stop in one disabled bay when grey hair/blue rinse pounced and shouted that it was a disabled space, not for the likes of myself and I should respect the signs. I got my badge out, waved it at her then put it on the dashboard only to hear her shouting that I was too young to have a badge and I ought to move the car now. When I started to get my chair out she tutted and walked off. Another grey hair !!!!! had a go when I got back to the car.

Why most old people get the badges beats me. After all, being slow at walking and using a stick is a natural part of the ageing process - not a disability. I read on here some councils give them out to all over a certain age, or they bully their GP's into signing a form to get one. They all ought to go through the hoops and prove disability like myself and others who get the badge with DLA had to and be assessed to the same standards.

Perhaps then disabled spaces would be free for the genuinely disabled and not old people who are ageing normally but think they have first right to be classed as disabled.

Cheryl

Too right. As an 25 year old amputee who drives a modified Pug 206 auto, my car seems to be like a magnet to the old fogeys whenever I pull up into a disabled space. Are young disabled drivers not allowed to drive modified cars or something?. My car is my pride and joy and the wages I earn (yes, I do manage to work) are spent on the car as I want it to look both smart and individual, so yes it does have a big exhaust and great music system. All the same, using my blue badge, I am just as entitled to park in a disabled space as anyone else. However the grief I get from, most particularly old people, is unbelievable, particularly if I have some friends in the car. They do not even look to see whether I am disabled and/or have a blue badge before they shout that I shouldn't park in the dis bays and give me the evil look. I have even had them banging on my car roof and windows telling me to move my car, and even had them blocking my car in on quite a few occasions. It seems the only way I can get through to them is to tell them to go and park their cars where they belong - in the cemetery. Liam

arunadasi

Got a letter today about my PCN.... they have excused me just this once, but please don't let it happen again! Hooray!

Babshubbie

LeglessLiam wrote: »

It seems the only way I can get through to them is to tell them to go and park their cars where they belong - in the cemetery. Liam

What an appalling attitude. There seems to be no hope for an end to this antagonism. There are good and bad of all ages.

Babshubbie

arunadasi wrote: »

Got a letter today about my PCN.... they have excused me just this once, but please don't let it happen again! Hooray!

Great news. Well done. :beer: :beer: :beer:

Tally-Ho_2

Babshubbie wrote: »

What an appalling attitude. There seems to be no hope for an end to this antagonism. There are good and bad of all ages.

Whilst I would perhaps not go as far as Liam. I take it that Babshubbie is okay with a young disabled lad being subject to abuse and having people banging on his car and blocking him in just because he is young and because of the car he drives?

Tal

Babshubbie

Tally-Ho wrote: »

Whilst I would perhaps not go as far as Liam. I take it that Babshubbie is okay with a young disabled lad being subject to abuse and having people banging on his car and blocking him in just because he is young and because of the car he drives?

Tal

Of course not. I do not believe in abuse and abusive attitudes whatever age or health condition.

black_paw

LeglessLiam wrote: »

Too right. As an 18 year old amputee who drives a modified Pug 206 auto, my car seems to be like a magnet to the old fogeys whenever I pull up into a disabled space. Are young disabled drivers not allowed to drive modified cars or something?. My car is my pride and joy and the wages I earn (yes, I do manage to work) are spent on the car as I want it to look both smart and individual, so yes it does have a big exhaust and great music system. All the same, using my blue badge, I am just as entitled to park in a disabled space as anyone else. However the grief I get from, most particularly old people, is unbelievable, particularly if I have some friends in the car. They do not even look to see whether I am disabled and/or have a blue badge before they shout that I shouldn't park in the dis bays and give me the evil look. I have even had them banging on my car roof and windows telling me to move my car, and even had them blocking my car in on quite a few occasions. It seems the only way I can get through to them is to tell them to go and park their cars where they belong - in the cemetery. Liam

think we could print a book called " tales of a Blue Badge driver parker " i know this is a very serious matter , but when you read some of the letter's on here , or what people have said to the poor driver ,you must agree ..what stupid ******old people.some just make me laugh, if you have a badge and there hard to get so you must be ill, use it and dont spy on others and stress them out ! makes it very frightening to go out and park these days :rolleyes:

sheeps68

Oh joys. The stress of parking. I just got home to find my allocated bay to my flat which is also marked with flat number & disabled sign in use. I blocked them in whilst sitting fuming, wondering where to park and taking emergency meds. I knew I wouldnt make it from the other visitor spaces so what was ~I to do. A family came out and had a go at me bloicking them in. I asked did they know the bays were numbered. YES, they said they were at a party. They moved and I got my bay and made it in home. That bay is far enough to be a challenge for me at the best of times so further away would have meant my being stuck in car. I hope they feel guilty! as I was really struggling to walk when I left them in car park. Just angry how peiole do not consider others. It wouldnt cross my mind to use a neighbours allocated bay unless I'd asked them first even in those circumstances.