Nosey people and blue badges.

Rochelle

I have had people make so many comments to me saying that they are going to report me for parking without the owner of the blue badge in my car with me. Just last week I had parked at A shopping centre and had been shopping and got back in my car feeling exhausted and in so much pain and had to take some meds n shut my eyes for a few min and relax till pain meds kicked in. So I put my music on n chilled for ten mins until this oap and her family were at my window shouting abuse that they were going to report me for fraudulent use of a blue badge and called over a traffic warden who asked where the badge holder was? I told them it was me and the abusive oap said " don't lie u r not disabled tell the truth" I said " what does a disabled person look like? Anyway I showed them my pic in the badge and forgot I had not changed the pic since I had lst 13 stone so my pic looks nothing like me Lol sp I had to show them other id to prove my identity. I have had this so many times and it infuriates me the way disabled people are stereotyped and if they can't see a disability that they immediately presume we have no disability, are we not allowed to look presentable if we r disabled?

stefos

jackieb wrote: »

Maybe it was the driver that had a blue badge and she was just a passenger.

So what potentially we have here is a disabled person responsible for a blind person....steer clear everyone!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcftWi37TLc&feature=related


n.b. Just in jest.No offense meant

timmehh

SuzieSue wrote: »

Well, if you really think that, then there is no point arguing with you as you as you clearly have some very dangereous supermarkets where you live. The ones I go to are much safer inside than out.

Im limping proof of how dangerous they are inside shops, as I mentioned in my other post.

I was stood in HMV browsing DVDs and a woman went over my foot breaking my ankle.

I can still hear the sound my foot being crunched made as she barged over it, can still feel it when I move my foot. No "excuse me" or indication was given to me she was trying to get passed so I could move out the way, just barged through thinking show owned the shopping isles, Think she must of drove a BMW before she traded it in for the mobility scooter.

:mad: Also had my car damaged by one wile parked outside my house.

zaksmum

We had a seriously disabled lady round here who used a motorised wheelchair on crowded pavements...all sympathy to the lady, but God help you if you couldn't leap clear when she approached!

She NEVER went round you...always through you. Would literally slam her very large bulk and wheelchair right into you and anybody standing chatting as she approached would punctuate their conversation with "Oh Jeez...it's Brenda! Quick!"...definitely a hospital visit if you weren't agile enough.

stephief

I love annoying OAP's with my husbands Blue Badge. I always make a point of getting the kids out the car and sorted and listening to all the moaning grannies, before popping in the blue badge and getting out hubby's wheelchair!

Sadly there seem to be many rather sprightly oap's with the badges who dont seem to consider that younger people can be disabled!

Parva

stephief wrote: »

I love annoying OAP's with my husbands Blue Badge. I always make a point of getting the kids out the car and sorted and listening to all the moaning grannies, before popping in the blue badge and getting out hubby's wheelchair!

Sadly there seem to be many rather sprightly oap's with the badges who dont seem to consider that younger people can be disabled!

Why do you take such pleasure in this, sounds a bit pathetic to me. I don't hold my blue badge in high regard, it's a means to an end for my particular level of amputation. I've seen many that don't 'look' like they need one but know from experience the pain I was in before I got the blue badge didn't even !!!!! the ears of my doctor up (first reported 2004).

All of a sudden last year my femur broke in a waterslide in Cyprus and I had no clue. All of those leg pains I'd had were due to bone cancer and I lost the leg. You should try getting around on one leg someday!

Whilst I understand your need for the badge I fail to see what thinks you should auto-qualify...

sbenson

Hello Handlewithcare

I can sympathise with how your feel. My daughter is quadreplegic cerebral palsey, she is unable to walk unaided, can't talk, needs all of her food pureed and takes 700ml of medication a day to aid a number of conditions. But for the majority of the time she is a content happy little girl who has an opinion about most things. She travels in a specially adapted vehicle and is pushed around in a wheelchair. My wife and I have both been challenged when taking her out of the vehicle and it has taken considerable restraint not let the individuals have the full brunt of my feelings. Usually just asking them if they would like to have the complications of my daughter is sufficient to sent them packing.
I have a lot of feeling for you; rise above the comments, you know that you carry the blue badge lawfully; don't let others drag you down.

stephief

Parva wrote: »

Why do you take such pleasure in this, sounds a bit pathetic to me. I don't hold my blue badge in high regard, it's a means to an end for my particular level of amputation. I've seen many that don't 'look' like they need one but know from experience the pain I was in before I got the blue badge didn't even !!!!! the ears of my doctor up (first reported 2004).

All of a sudden last year my femur broke in a waterslide in Cyprus and I had no clue. All of those leg pains I'd had were due to bone cancer and I lost the leg. You should try getting around on one leg someday!

Whilst I understand your need for the badge I fail to see what thinks you should auto-qualify...

Auto qualify? My husband has had his problems for years, and despite having had to use mobility aids and a wheelchair for a very long time now, and being in severe pain even laying in bed, he only qualified for a blue badge six months ago. Hardly 'auto qualifying' now is it?!

I get my 'pathetic' pleasure annoying the oaps as I have had to endure many rude comments and tuts and jibes from ONLY this group of people since we have had the blue badge, many of whom appear to have far fewer problems moving around than my husband has, who think we shouldnt be parking in bays we are allowed to use as my husband is not a pensioner and therefore cannot possibly be disabled, and assuming we are parking there instead of parent and child bays. So hell yeah I will get a sense of smugness when they start their nasty little banter and then get shown up to be the fools they are when they realise we probably need the wider bay more than they do!

As for the comment about me seeing what it is like to get around on one leg someday, I have a problem with my right ankle that causes regular and repeated fracture. I am currently 'crutched up' as it broke again last tuesday while on the school run! Its been going on for 5 years now. Not the same as having no leg (I do feel for you for that, hope things are improving for you now, it must have been terrifying) but I can symathise to a very limited extent!

stephief

Apologies just think I realised what you meant by auto qualify (as in qualify due to high rate mobility) But come to think of it when hubby got his blue badge he didnt have any DLA award at all (thanks to a monumental dla blunder), so he never did auto qualify!

I have never even considered whether someone auto qualifies or not, just get hugely aggreived when some people assume you have no right to use a disabled bay because you dont look like you should be disabled but they do because they are old, and feel the need to make sarky snide comments!

I have never accosted anyone for using a disabled bay, I resent people who feel the need to do so to us.

Parva

stephief wrote: »

Apologies just think I realised what you meant by auto qualify (as in qualify due to high rate mobility) But come to think of it when hubby got his blue badge he didnt have any DLA award at all (thanks to a monumental dla blunder), so he never did auto qualify!

I have never even considered whether someone auto qualifies or not, just get hugely aggreived when some people assume you have no right to use a disabled bay because you dont look like you should be disabled but they do because they are old, and feel the need to make sarky snide comments!

I have never accosted anyone for using a disabled bay, I resent people who feel the need to do so to us.

Yeah sorry, I worded the last part of my post badly. I still however wouldn't set about winding people up over the blue badge, it will only likely make disabled badge holders even more reviled (if that's possible). I can see the 'fun' factor in it I guess but it just wouldn't work for me.