disabled and parents parking

atomicsheep

iamana1ias wrote: »

Why do you have to take your screaming brats to the supermarket anyway? Aren't we childfree people entitled to shop in peace without your spawn running riot?

those are the ones who do not control their kids, but i hear ya

Careful_with_that_Axe

atomicsheep wrote: »

well am i not entitled to use the P&C spot if i have a young CHILD and want to park in the parent and CHILD spot??

I didnt know about disabled spots having no legal standing though so thanks for that. I know where i'm parking then when P&C are full!

Most people choose to have children. I doubt anyone would choose to have a disability.

Doom_and_Gloom

As someone else pointed out - P&C bays are sometimes closer to the store than the disabled bays. This is stupidity because those that are disabled generally have a harder time getting from point A to point B. This could be another reason why some disabled people use the P&C bays instead. All people with children need is a safe way to the store - not a shorter route like the disabled generally do!

atomicsheep

hoyles10 wrote: »

I haven't had to use my blue badge for a couple of months now or a disabled space and hopefully will never have to again but if I did and all the disabled bays were taken and I needed extra space to get out of the car either into my wheelchair or on my crutches I wouldn't hesitate in using a P&C space rather than risk damaging someone elses car by trying to open the car door as wide as it'll go to get out.

Same would go for me- If no parent and child spots are free - i wouldnt hesitate in using a disbaled bay so i have room to the kids out without denting anyones car.

Big_Melons

atomicsheep wrote: »

well am i not entitled to use the P&C spot if i have a young CHILD and want to park in the parent and CHILD spot??

I didnt know about disabled spots having no legal standing though so thanks for that. I know where i'm parking then when P&C are full!

So you will happily take a disabled bay because life's a bit of a struggle with prams, car seats and stuff?

For one minute... just one... stop and think of the people with disabilities, you take the last space, someone could find themselves having to go home, return another time to do their shopping because you decided to be selfish.

It can be a lonely and not very nice life for some with disabilities as it is, why go out of your way to make it harder for them?

By the way I have 4 children, yup 4, been there and done that with prams and car seats and I would never... NEVER... take a disabled bay if I couldn't get their things out of the car, I would simply park at the back of the car park where there's always a bit more room, or on an end of lane.

atomicsheep

poppy_f1 wrote: »

both our local tescos and morrisons have said to my mum that she can park in the P&C spaces if there are no disabled spaces left - she asked and that was the reply she got

nothing wrong with that. Its when im scavenging for a P&C spot and there are (aways) disabled bays free, when a disabled driver comes along and nabs the last P&C spot.

I then look over to the disabled bays all lined up nice and empty

atomicsheep

Broken_hearted wrote: »

Sigh. parents without the ability to figure out how to use a normal parking bay safely and have nothing better to do than whine about those selfish disabled people. No wonder society is screwed.

we know how to use them, but knowing doesnt physically create you more space now does it.....sheesh!

Luckyred

atomicsheep wrote: »

Same would go for me- If no parent and child spots are free - i wouldnt hesitate in using a disbaled bay so i have room to the kids out without denting anyones car.

Disabled people need the designated spaces..... you do not! :mad: I am sure you could find a space somewhere where no one was parked next to you if you need space to get the kids out of your car if the P&C spaces were full. I think that disabled people should have priority in the P&C spaces (if they are near the store entrance) if no disabled spaces are available.

atomicsheep

snugglepet20 wrote: »

As a parent of 3 pre-schoolers, yes you do need wider spaces to fit the children in and out of the car and do their seatbelts etc without taking the paint off the car next to you! I am not bothered where they are on the car park and in fact it is better if they are at the back because there is more chance of them being available. I do not mind if a disabled person takes up the child space if they need to but if there weren't so many idiots abusing the system this .

Exaclty what i was thinking. Alot of the posters here seem to think i want the bay right outside the door. I never once said that. Its something they are clinging onto as there 'counter-moan' as such.

Careful_with_that_Axe

atomicsheep wrote: »

agreed. I need the space to get a buggy out and extra space to get car seat/carry seat out the car. Not too disimilar to disabled people.

All these people complaining that i dont need the parking space wouldnt be saying that if i bumped and scratched their car because i had no room to get out.

If your spatial awareness is so poor that you can't get a child out of a vehicle without denting the adjacent one, I hate to think what your driving is like.

Must be true that pregnancy shrinks the brain *roll eyes smiley*