Who do blue badge holders think they are.

Paul_Varjak

Rannock...

I wholeheartedly agree.

I am disabled, though not a wheelchair user, it is much easier for me to walk across the road with a lowered kerb than to have to step down a kerb.

By and large, though we are pretty lucky in this country - just go abroad and you have to cope with kerbs of six inches or more and wheelchair users are lucky to get a ramp - and if they do it is as steep as the staircase itself!

GM43

RANNOCK wrote: »

We should all help each other when we can -not just when driving or parking. I regularly pass down items from a high shelf in the supermarket to a person in a wheelchair or buggy - their smile says it all.

Rannock

:T I agree with this sentiment entirely. It would be good if people could step outside their own busy worlds for a minute and help others. It doesn't have to be a big thing either but it could really make someones day a little better.

HooCanTellMee

Hi to all,
Must admit to a snigger, once used parent and child space (please note, evening time, lots of spaces, not the nearest to the door) when out with my Mum, I am in my fifties! There was no restrictions on age of parent or child and I am still smaller than my Mum.
On a more serious note I would like to see spaces for Elderly drivers or anyone taking the elderly shopping. Some elderly drivers are not disabled, but are limited by their bodies, we all get less fit as we get older. No 70 year old Usain Bolt, is there! I take my MIL shopping, now in her eighties, not disabled but she is elderly. Some problems are very similar to parent and child, tends to open doors really wide, due to not so go motor skills and the struggle to get out when joints are aged! Less aware of traffic, a bit like someone with an Ipod or like a small child, she doesn't always hear cars behind her! Made worse by vehicles getting quieter! Trolley control is also a little suspect! So nearer to the entrance or with a pavement is safer, both for her and other cars! Yes, I could do her shopping for her, but she likes to get out of the house. Why not!
I have also shopped late at night, and parked as close to the entrance as possible, used any bay, providing there are many empty for disabled or parent and child. Reason, a friend was accosted by bunch of teens then followed back to her car, which was parked further away in a normal space! Maybe this is why staff park near to the entrances at night! Bored teens often hang around the entrance of all night supermarkets, this is not me blaming them, maybe there is nothing else to do, but it is intimidating and you do worry about your car if it is away from the bright lights of the store.
Perhaps the answer to the quick nip in for a pint of milk would be short stay bays,stay too long in bay then pay to charity!
Also be reasonable, if the poster of the thread was waiting in one of several vacant disabled bays, where is the problem? If they were using the last space there, that is entirely different. We can't preach tolerance if we don't show any, if no harm was caused why is it a problem?

Jeff_Bridges_hair

RANNOCK wrote: »

Lowered kerbs are always protected by yellow double lines, but there are other places where the disabled cannot park, but they do so - sometimes causing inconvenience for others, or danger to themselves......its all in the book.

I better get onto my local council as I'd say there are about 600 streets round me that all have lowered kerbs - outside my house too infact- that are not protected by double yellow lines.

Otherwise top post

savvyme_4

HooCanTellMee wrote: »

Hi to all,
Must admit to a snigger, once used parent and child space (please note, evening time, lots of spaces, not the nearest to the door) when out with my Mum, I am in my fifties! There was no restrictions on age of parent or child and I am still smaller than my Mum.
On a more serious note I would like to see spaces for Elderly drivers or anyone taking the elderly shopping. Some elderly drivers are not disabled, but are limited by their bodies, we all get less fit as we get older. No 70 year old Usain Bolt, is there! I take my MIL shopping, now in her eighties, not disabled but she is elderly. Some problems are very similar to parent and child, tends to open doors really wide, due to not so go motor skills and the struggle to get out when joints are aged! Less aware of traffic, a bit like someone with an Ipod or like a small child, she doesn't always hear cars behind her! Made worse by vehicles getting quieter! Trolley control is also a little suspect! So nearer to the entrance or with a pavement is safer, both for her and other cars! Yes, I could do her shopping for her, but she likes to get out of the house. Why not!
I have also shopped late at night, and parked as close to the entrance as possible, used any bay, providing there are many empty for disabled or parent and child. Reason, a friend was accosted by bunch of teens then followed back to her car, which was parked further away in a normal space! Maybe this is why staff park near to the entrances at night! Bored teens often hang around the entrance of all night supermarkets, this is not me blaming them, maybe there is nothing else to do, but it is intimidating and you do worry about your car if it is away from the bright lights of the store.
Perhaps the answer to the quick nip in for a pint of milk would be short stay bays,stay too long in bay then pay to charity!
Also be reasonable, if the poster of the thread was waiting in one of several vacant disabled bays, where is the problem? If they were using the last space there, that is entirely different. We can't preach tolerance if we don't show any, if no harm was caused why is it a problem?

Your mother in law may be entitled to a blue badge. It would be worth applying for one. My mum is 86, finds it difficult getting in and out of the car with her stick (we have the same problems with the car door etc etc) and she got one straight away. At least you will then have proof when parking in disabled bays and it makes it so much easier for you both. Good luck!!

HooCanTellMee

Thanks savvyme,
MIL wouldn't apply for Blue Badge, she says she is just elderly! Also we only have the car when hubby isn't at work, so it wouldn't be worth it! Can spend an hour pottering in the garden, reasonably fit for her age, just slowing down a bit! She probably wouldn't admit to being a little less aware of traffic. Funnily enough I am the one with the stick, duff hip joints but not bad enough to warrant disability badge. Just wish all were as friendly and helpful, life would be much better if we stopped being so aggressive, better for our blood pressure as well!