Who do blue badge holders think they are.

burtons

I went over to tesco's to get a few items for work and when i got there i went straight to the kids spaces but there wasn't any so i drove around again hoping someone may have pulled out, so when i was driving around i seen someone was pulling out so as there was only a works van in front of me i thought i would have a parking space but how wrong was i as the beep beep pulled in the space :mad: so i thought sod this and went and parked in a disabled bay as they was all empty, so i told my gf to go in tesco's while i wait in the car and while i was waiting this car pulled up by the side of me with a man and women in so i carried on looking at the women walking past and all the sudden i noticed the bloke in the car next to me banging on his window so i looked over and he was shouting you cannot park here as it's for blue badge holders, he then started pointing at the floor and started waving his blue badge at me so i shrug my shoulders at him and turned around. So they both got out the car ok and walked into tesco's and they both looked like there was nothing wrong with them so i don't know why they needed the blue badge. I know none of us has a disability but the bloke don't even know us and he didn't even ask before he got all excited. Now i know i shouldn't have parked there but i was willing to move if someone wanted the space.

adouglasmhor

I was ready to give you pelters, but as you stayed with your car and were ready to move if asked, and there were other disabled parking spaces available, the guy was just a knobjockey in my opinion.

Oliver14

burtons wrote: »

. Now i know i shouldn't have parked there

You answered your own question. In future don't park there. Simple really

It can easily be turned around who do people like you think you are? Too bloody lazy to wait for a parking space.

trumpton

I agree that the blue badge scheme is massively abused, but to be fair some people have an invisible disability like heart failure. You seem p'eed off at someone wrongly parking in the parent and child spaces and then you do the same in the disabled spaces?

fluffnutter

1. You were quite entitled to park there as the blue badge scheme doesn't operate on private land.....
2. ....but if you do so, you'll be seen to be a twat by everyone else, particularly those who do actually qualify for a blue badge.

KierNet

burtons wrote: »

I went over to tesco's to get a few items for work and when i got there i went straight to the kids spaces but there wasn't any so i drove around again hoping someone may have pulled out, so when i was driving around i seen someone was pulling out so as there was only a works van in front of me i thought i would have a parking space but how wrong was i as the beep beep pulled in the space :mad: so i thought sod this and went and parked in a disabled bay as they was all empty, so i told my gf to go in tesco's while i wait in the car and while i was waiting this car pulled up by the side of me with a man and women in so i carried on looking at the women walking past and all the sudden i noticed the bloke in the car next to me banging on his window so i looked over and he was shouting you cannot park here as it's for blue badge holders, he then started pointing at the floor and started waving his blue badge at me so i shrug my shoulders at him and turned around. So they both got out the car ok and walked into tesco's and they both looked like there was nothing wrong with them so i don't know why they needed the blue badge. I know none of us has a disability but the bloke don't even know us and he didn't even ask before he got all excited. Now i know i shouldn't have parked there but i was willing to move if someone wanted the space.

Just because someone doesn't look disabled, doesn't mean they aren't.

You say you would move if someone needed it, but how would you know someone would need it? What would happen if someone was in a wheelchair in their car and couldn't get out to ask you.

You where in the wrong, you've said you where in the wrong, and yet you still did it?

Well done to the couple who challenged you, need more people like that!

adouglasmhor

KierNet wrote: »

You say you would move if someone needed it, but how would you know someone would need it? What would happen if someone was in a wheelchair in their car and couldn't get out to ask you.

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They could park in one of the other disabled spaces the OP said were empty.
What would happen if you could read properly?

burtons

KierNet wrote: »

Just because someone doesn't look disabled, doesn't mean they aren't.

You say you would move if someone needed it, but how would you know someone would need it? What would happen if someone was in a wheelchair in their car and couldn't get out to ask you.

You where in the wrong, you've said you where in the wrong, and yet you still did it?

Well done to the couple who challenged you, need more people like that!

What would happen if someone was in a wheelchair in their car and couldn't get out to ask you. I would wonder how they got in the car in the first place and then wonder how they was going to get out to go shopping.

Well done to the couple who challenged you, need more people like that! How did they challenge me as they only banged on there window. Now he could have wound his window down or came to my car but he didn't so i guess he was to scared to do that just incase i gave him a glasgow kiss.

If any people came and used the spaces i would have pulled out but as it didn't come to that i stayed there.

Maldives_lover

Just out of interest, did you have any children with you?

vuvuzela

Maldives - I was just about to post exactly that. The OP doesn't come across particularly well here.

serious_saver

My father looks fine but has had a lung removed. He also has a chronic condition which means the capacity of his remaining lung will keep reducing. He can just about walk to the trolley before he needs to stop. He then uses the trolley like a zimmer frame. He is a proud man and doesn't like looking disabled so he does what he can not to appear that way. Should all disabled people play up their disabilities so you can recognise them? Maybe we should make all disabled people wear badges on their clothes to single them out?!?!

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I will say this though. You were probably the victim of someone else's frustration. If you frequently try to use a space and find it being taken up by people who are not entitled to use it (this applies for parent and child spaces too) but you aren't able to confront them because they're not there, your more likely to do something when you actually see someone sat in the car. Don't take it personally and don't jump to conclusions.