Parking in a parent and child space.

jazabelle

sandy71 wrote: »

I am perfectly entitled to my opinion as are you and I dont really understand why you have been so aggressive in your reply.
I am actually disabled myself so I understand how good days and bad days work, one of the reasons I haven't put my point across very well here is because of how battered my brain is. Does it matter that its only a small minority, the disabled are (supposedly) a minority, it doesn't make us count any less:rolleyes:

The relevance with my seizures is if I am in a parent and child space its easier for my hubby to get me to the car than hiking across the car park.

I haven't applied for a badge for my son as we can park in the parent and child spaces and our local council only give out a certain number and I don't want to deprive someone else.

Happy now?

Sorry, I wasn't meaning to be aggressive specifically with you, this topic just really gets to me and I do end up losing my temper. It just seems like when it comes up, people come in saying things like well there are too many disabled spaces anyway, people abuse the badge, I'm entitled to a badge but don't apply aren't I great, why are disabled people shopping anyway, and things like that.

I know you're a disabled person - which is why I didn't quite get your response that some peple can walk the distance across the car park, so I was trying to get across yeah but what about the ones that can't.

sandy71

BeenieCat wrote: »

Lol. If you were having a seizure in the shop i think the distance to your car should be irrelevant as you surely wouldn't be driving anywhere sharpish anyway.

Errmmm in this country if you have active seizures you aren't allowed to drive! I actually said in my post that the P+C spaces make it easier for my husband to get me to the car :rolleyes:

jazabelle

Viper_7 wrote: »

You never mentioned mobility issues in your post. You rubbished someone else's comment and claimed that a disabled person was unable to walk from anywhere in the carpark.

Back tracking are we now?

I think in this instance it was obvious tenmah was talking about people with mobility issues. Yes, of course there are other disabled people - but it's hardly backtracking.

Viper_7

jazabelle wrote: »

I think in this instance it was obvious tenmah was talking about people with mobility issues. Yes, of course there are other disabled people - but it's hardly backtracking.

ah, so you assumed as well.....

jazabelle

Viper_7 wrote: »

ah, so you assumed as well.....

Assumed what? That she was talking about people with mobility issues?

Of course not all disabilities equal mobility impairment, but in this particularly instance she was referring to those.

Of course there other other disabilities that would make it difficult for someone to walk across a car park that aren't down to walking as well, such as visual impairment.

sandy71

jazabelle wrote: »

Sorry, I wasn't meaning to be aggressive specifically with you, this topic just really gets to me and I do end up losing my temper. It just seems like when it comes up, people come in saying things like well there are too many disabled spaces anyway, people abuse the badge, I'm entitled to a badge but don't apply aren't I great, why are disabled people shopping anyway, and things like that.

I know you're a disabled person - which is why I didn't quite get your response that some peple can walk the distance across the car park, so I was trying to get across yeah but what about the ones that can't.

Apology accepted;) I don't think I'm great for not applying for a badge for my boy there just doesn't seem any point while we can use a p+c space.
If disabled people should'nt shop we would starve to death here. If I send hubby on his own he comes back with wine, a loaf of bread and a packet of penguins to last the week:eek:

The point I'm trying to make (not very well) is that everything is open to abuse. There will be people who park in the p+c spaces when they are physically able to walk across the car park. I wish I had the problem of where to park, I miss driving so much and hate relying on people to get anywhere.

Viper_7

"I don't suppose you would think that if you were disabled. The point is a non-disabled person can walk from anywhere in the car park, but a disabled person can't.

Think about it before talking rubbish."

Where does it mention or an assumption made that this was in reference to physically disabled? Nowhere, ie you assume it.


Nowhere in any other post was mobility mentioned - just disability.

tenmah

Sorry Viper_7

I was referring to mobility issues only and didn't make that clear. I was thinking in terms of what happens if you can't use the disabled parking spaces and the effect that has on someone.

McKneff

And some moron decided to park within 3 cm of my drivers door last week so i had to climb over my passenger seat, as you can imagine that was no easy task.

I saw someone take exeption to someone else doing that to him, and rightly so.

do you know what he did. He pulled out of his parking space, parked directly behind the offending car, the driver came back and was irate because the driver then got his newspaper out and proceeded to read it for 20 minutes, ignoring all the verbas the other driver threw at him. brilliant.

jazabelle

sandy71 wrote: »

Apology accepted;) I don't think I'm great for not applying for a badge for my boy there just doesn't seem any point while we can use a p+c space.
If disabled people should'nt shop we would starve to death here.

Yeah, good point. Perhaps when he gets to an age you would get funny looks for using a P + C you can apply for one, and make life easier.

sandy71 wrote: »

If I send hubby on his own he comes back with wine, a loaf of bread and a packet of penguins to last the week:eek:

Silly men! Everyone knows one packet of penguins won't last more than a day...

sandy71 wrote: »

The point I'm trying to make (not very well) is that everything is open to abuse. There will be people who park in the p+c spaces when they are physically able to walk across the car park. I wish I had the problem of where to park, I miss driving so much and hate relying on people to get anywhere.

I'm sorry to hear that. It is horrible relying on other people - especially when they don't think to offer you a lift to get to places and that kind of thing.