ELITE 11+ Everyone Loving It Trout Extraction

pippo · 5 August 2013 at 7:18PM

Morgy9 wrote: »

Hesitate to enter the fray here but here goes ... I too used to think quite black and white about disabled and mother and toddler parking. Until I became seriously ill that is, I now think slightly differently ..... Whilst I was undergoing chemo and radiotherapy I was very weak and needed to limit walking and hills so wanted to get near the shop when I could. However you are not disabled so you don't get a blue badge. I agree there were rows and rows of disabled parking and most of it empty - but I couldn't park there.........

I had my children later in life - and whilst they are not toddlers I have car seats in the rear so unfortunately if I wanted to park near I found myself taking a parent and child space when I could (and never enough of these). I felt very bad about it - it was obvious from my scarf wear and no eyebrows that I had a health issue .............but no blue badge.

Know quite a couple of able bodied people with kids and got disabled badge for them but use disabled spaces whilst kids at school.

I guess its not fair - but I did wish they had some timed temporary blue badges so I could have used a disabled parking space and not a mother and toddler, its surely not that impossible .....

But yes some people just take the ..........

Totally agree - I was in a somewhat similar situation a little while ago....
All sorted now (I hope!) as I hope you are too.

Strangely enough I don't have to hand back my RADAR key for the disabled (or should that be accessible toilets) and my exemption certificate for prescriptions runs for 5 years, even though I no longer need it??
Pip
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Mrs_stinkface · 5 August 2013 at 7:21PM

izzy65 wrote: »

Voted again too, let me do it a few times so I hope they count.:)

Thank you izzy

I hope they do too. Fingers crossed

pk04 · 5 August 2013 at 7:22PM

Mrs_stinkface wrote: »

I'm just bumping this to beg for some more votes if poss please peeps.
You can vote quite a few times before it says you've reached the maximum amount. ( if anyone has multiple accounts on Facebook then it would be a huge disservice not to abuse them for me)
Thank you thank you thank you

Link wouldn't work for me on iPad

but I managed to find him anyway

Edit and after a few votes he's in first place

pippo · 5 August 2013 at 7:27PM

tigerwhite wrote: »

:rotfl: it wasn't me but it made me laugh. I did click and collect there. The boot was full (and we have a large car) and extras had to go on the back seat.. I gulped at how much food I'd got and the cost.. I really don't like spending money I think!
And to make matters worse, I didn't realise there was a dishwasher so didn't bring any tablets. I had to get some finish (via my super list though so £12 down to £6 and £2 c/b), despite me having hundreds in the garage:o

Thanks for that Tigerwhite, we went just before Christmas last year to meet up with DS and his family, the click and collect could have made the organisation much simpler!
pip
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izzeyb · 5 August 2013 at 7:31PM

Mrs_stinkface wrote: »

Max sends you both fishy flavoured kisses
Me too ( mine aren't fishy flavoured though) (least I hope not :rotfl:)

Not sure if its daily, I think once you hit the limit, that's it.

Dependant on browser, it let's you vote, then the share box comes up. X the share box, then it will let you vote again (and again) - apparently the rules do allow you 10 votes.

I found Opera the best one to use - Mozilla not so good.

Max was just on 255 votes

;)

elsie1969 · 5 August 2013 at 7:32PM

Evening everyone. :beer:

I now have a £9.72 BM and 9 boxes of reduced salt Oxo.

;);)
To make up the needed £20 l also got 2 packs Plenty Big one with MOCs, and an ES bar of choc with moc, along with a few other sainsburys own items that I always use to make up the difference.

Some oxos, one of the plenty, and the ES will be very useful for a 'New Home' hamper i'm making up for my Nephew and his girlfriend who have had to stretch the budget to the max to buy a house they really wanted. They deserve it as my Nephew has just been promoted to FT assistant manager in a new local store the company he works for has opened, (not T's, lol) and his GF has just got a FT nursing job following passing her degree.

They know I don't have a lot myself, but i think they'll be pleasantly surprised with the goodies they gonna get, and I still have another 4 weeks to add to it.

:D:D

ma-ri-ella · 5 August 2013 at 7:33PM

Enterprise_1701C wrote: »

Good morning Elite, cloudy here but the sun is trying to break through

I'll tell you what get's my goat. If parents parked in disabled spaces they would get ticketed, but I frequently see disabled cars parked in mother and child spaces, I have been told by one that other wheelchair users can make it difficult to get in and out the car, I pointed out that this person had taken the last mother and child space when there was at least two cars cruising the car park with babies in, the reply was "i don't give a s***, I am disabled, I get priority". And they wonder why opinion can go against them sometimes :mad::mad::mad:

I know for where I work that we have to have so many disabled spaces per size of car park , it's a legal requirement but parent and child spaces are seen as a curtesy space and there is no need to supply them. Little known fact if you park down the middle of two normal spaces you don't get a ticket for it and it gives you space to get the pram out.