Who do blue badge holders think they are.

poet123

geordieracer wrote: »

thats fine but why do they also need to be closer to the store?

They don't, the supermarkets are simply pandering to a profitable section of their customer base.;)

caz2703

Ahhh the old P&C space arguement. I have an 18 month old who is at the stage now that I can park in a normal space while he climbs out of the car. Before he was walking and especially when he was in a car seat I would have to wait around for a P&C space as there was no way I could get the car seat out of my 3 door car without risking damaging the car beside me.

I don't care if the spaces are at the back of the car park, all I want is to not have some inconsiderate !!!!!! parking so close to my car while he sits in it preventing me from opening my door. There should also be an age restriction on the spaces as having an 8 year old with you does not mean you need the space more than I do.

P.S. I drive an old Civic so I couldn't care less if someone dings my door as it's happened too many times for me to care any more. I do however have a problem with hitting other peoples cars and could do without an insurance claim being money saving and all that!

geordieracer

poet123 wrote: »

They don't, the supermarkets are simply pandering to a profitable section of their customer base.;)

:j:j:j:j:j:j

sock-knitter

trumpton wrote: »

Lol. If you have a baby or small child in a car seat in the back of a car you really do need to open the doors wide to help them out. Once your kids are old enough to have a seat belt and undo it themselves you don't really need a P and C big space in my opinion and should stop parking there. You will often see women with quite old kids in the P and C spaces because they are too lazy to walk far. Bottom line is that there will always be inconsiderate idiots who abuse anything made to help others.

you've probably seen me then lol. i have two teenage children, both of whom have learning disabilites, and both two old to allow me to hold there hands, therefore it is safer to park nearer the supermarket. far from being lazy tho, as me and my kids walk miles in safe environments, and do a lot of sponsored walks to raise money for various charities

fluffnutter

mr_veedubberman wrote: »

For all you people without kids who moan about the larger P+C spaces imagine how you would feel to come back to your car to find a door mark in your nice paintwork or worse still someone with their door jammed open against your car door

I'm not understanding this. Are you suggesting that breeding makes you unable to park? Or that having a child with you makes you park so close to another car that when you open your door you hit the car beside you?? I'm intrigued. I assumed that the larger bays were so there was room to get a child plus car seat in and out, not because anyone with a child automatically parks too close to the car beside it....

loztiggy

I wonder if the people who complain about parent and child places would willingly park their car alongside a car with a baby seat in the rear in a normal space? I know I wouldnt!!!

fluffnutter

I don't begrudge P&C parking. I can walk. There's usually plenty of parking at my local Waitrose. I guess I do feel a little jaded by the "It's my right! How dare you?! Won't someone think of the children!" argument. It's not your 'right'. A decade or so ago, one supermarket cottoned on to the following... a huge proportion of their shoppers are women, lots of women bring small children to the supermarket. Hmm, let's see how we can appeal to them? I know! Offer them priority parking. It works and now they all do it. It's about profits, not rights. So no need to get hysterical the next time someone parks in 'your' space and start threatening to dink people's cars or whatever. The supermarkets do it because they want your wedge, not because you're special.

aheaton46

Jeff_Bridges_hair wrote: »

As has said before - the blue badge scheme is not enforceable on private land such as supermarkets so they have really done nothing wrong.

If your definitions of right and wrong are based entirely on what is legally enforceable then you must have very few friends.

Rolandtheroadie

geordieracer wrote: »

thats fine but why do they also need to be closer to the store?

It's normally to do with direct access to a pavement which in turn leads to the front door, not distance from the entrance.

KierNet

adouglasmhor wrote: »

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

So that makes it OK then? Think I'll park in the child bays now if there are others free.

burtons wrote: »

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.

I guess you've not seen wheelchair adapted cars that allow someone in a wheelchair to drive then.