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System

SandraScarlett wrote: »

In future, I shall either park on the main road, or block half the side turning by keeping all 4 wheels on the road.

And you will possibly get a ticket for obstruction. The BB doesn't absolve you from being a numpty and obstructing traffic

lisyloo

I thought this particularly mean, as they must have seen the blue badge

Sympathies for any disability issue you or your spouse/partner may have to deal with, but this doesn't absolve you from causing inconvenient to other road/pavement. users.
Do you really think you should get dispensation from penalties because you have a blue badge?

Sorry but I'm glad they are mean because other road/pavement users (including other disabled people) need protection.

SandraScarlett

!!!!!! wrote: »

And you will possibly get a ticket for obstruction. The BB doesn't absolve you from being a numpty and obstructing traffic

Thank you so much for your reply. I am aware that the BB doesn't absolve me from "being a numpty and obstructing traffic", which is why I partially parked on the pavement.


As I clearly said, I've learnt my lesson thank you.

lisyloo wrote: »

Sympathies for any disability issue you or your spouse/partner may have to deal with, but this doesn't absolve you from causing inconvenient to other road/pavement. users.
Do you really think you should get dispensation from penalties because you have a blue badge?

Sorry but I'm glad they are mean because other road/pavement users (including other disabled people) need protection.

No, I don't think I should get dispensation, just because I have a BB, but I am allowed to think it was mean, am I? Even if you disagree? It was an expensive lesson, especially as we're pensioners, but I agree I was wrong. The whole point of my post was that I was stating that I know now I was in the wrong, and I've learnt from my error.


Alas, when you're trying to get a 75 year old toddler out of the car, and manoeuvre the walking sticks you're both using, you don't always check as much as you should. As I mentioned, he has severe Alzheimer's, and is apt to wander off.

I shall now don my sackcloth and ashes, and hide in the corner. Happy New Year!


xx

Voyager2002

jcpcco wrote: »

when we got to the check in desk at Tenerife South we were informed that we should have downloaded and printed a boarding pass,
"you need to go over there and pay 70 Euros each to get the boarding passes!"
So the question is: Is it legal to charge so much for a piece of paper.

At one time a Spanish court agreed with you and ruled that it was illegal to charge for printing a boarding pass. I don't know whether or not this ruling was overturned, but if it still stands then you should find out about the Spanish equivalent of the 'small claims' court procedure. And good luck with it!

TurnUpForTheBooks_2

!!!!!! wrote: »

And you will possibly get a ticket for obstruction. The BB doesn't absolve you from being a numpty and obstructing traffic

That's one of the most ignorant posts I have seen today.

lisyloo wrote:

Sorry but I'm glad they are mean because other road/pavement users (including other disabled people) need protection.

And lisyloo too! How interesting. Do you have any Blue Badge holders who really need it in your families, you two? I am guessing maybe not yet or you might have a tad more empathy to compliment any claimed sympathies prefacing your put-downs.

The able-bodied world does not revolve around uninterrupted motor traffic. The disabled world often needs a car to get as close as possible to an appointment like this.

Would you rather see an Alzheimers sufferer stumbling and blacking an eye on the way from a tidy parking spot because they or their guardian angel were trying to walk too far, or would it be more civil to tolerate a slight diversion or wait by a responsible motorist or pedestrian having to negotiate round a slightly problematically parked vehicle with either a frown or a smile? I agree if the car was parked blocking a specially lowered pavement for wheelchair users that it would be somewhat ironic, but lets be realistic. Being disabled can be hell. Count your blessings.

And Voyager2002, it looks like it is still 70 euros at the airport if you haven't previously checked in online (in which case it is now 15 euros at the airport if you checked in but didn't print the pass).

System

TurnUpForTheBooks wrote: »

That's one of the most ignorant posts I have seen today.

Would you like to say why.
It was in response to

block half the side turning by keeping all 4 wheels on the road.

which is probably obstruction even with a BB.

Maybe you ought to look up what the word 'ignorant' means.

TurnUpForTheBooks_2

!!!!!! wrote: »

Would you like to say why.
It was in response to

block half the side turning by keeping all 4 wheels on the road.

which is probably obstruction even with a BB.

Maybe you ought to look up what the word 'ignorant' means.

I know I really do need to do some research - I am so often fighting for the right words to describe the exact characteristics of the sort of posters on MSE who constantly harry good people who complain about bad things on the strength that a business or an authority can do no wrong, and who assert that the injured party clearly injured themselves through their own self-inflicted ignorance. My language skills are perhaps not good enough to find the right words for this phenomenon of our times, sorry !!!!!!, or ... wait just a minute ... maybe we could call it mugwumpitis ? :rotfl:

System

Maybe its more a case of pointing out the rules that go with a BB and them not having carte blanche to do as they please in this situation

maybe we could call it mugwumpitis

I see you really do have a serious problem with words and by the looks of it wit and sarcasm. Not very good at all

SandraScarlett

Oh dear !!!!!!, how can I put your troubled mind at rest? I have no wish to cause an obstruction to you, or any other motorists who may wish to use the narrow side turning opposite my GP's surgery.


If I am a "numpty", to use your charming phrase, by legally parking in this road with all 4 wheels in the road, where am I causing an obstruction?


The first part of the road has a yellow band, but as you are so current with BB rules, you will know that providing I display the badge, I can park, legally, on the yellow band.


When the yellow band ceases, there is a broken white line, on the pavement, allowing motorists to mount the pavement, thereby giving extra room, in this narrow road, for traffic to move.


My sin was to park partially on the white line section , and partially on the yellow band section, with my front offside wheel on the pavement where there was no white line.


I admit I was wrong! I know I should have checked! I sinned! But as I pointed out, when you have a 75 year old toddler, who has severe Alzheimer's,a walking stick, as do I, and is apt to throw a tantrum at the slightest thing, occasionally I don't check things that I should. And because he is disabled, I need to open his door as wide as possible, to help him out, though sometimes he gets himself out and wanders off, before I've even undone my seat belt. I know, these are mere excuses.


Of course, if my husband was in a Care Home, the GP would visit him, along with the other patients, but I'm trying to do my best by looking after him, single handed, as long as I can, and that involves visits to the GP, optician, dentist etc.


But I committed the crime, so I'm doing the time and I've paid my fine! It would be nice if you apologise for calling me a numpty, which suggests a person of lower intelligence to yourself, but I'm not holding my breath.


As my ol' Aunt used to say:


You're an unsophisticated individual, intoxicated with the exuberance of your own pomposity. Do you mean to insinuate that I should tolerate such diabolical insults from an inferior like you, when your intellect is not sufficiently developed, to comprehend my statement.


Happy New Year! :beer:


xx

System

As my ol' Aunt used to say:


You're an unsophisticated individual, intoxicated with the exuberance of your own pomposity. Do you mean to insinuate that I should tolerate such diabolical insults from an inferior like you, when your intellect is not sufficiently developed, to comprehend my statement.

I like the way that you insult somebody by claiming it is a saying from somebody else. It helps you pretend that that you didn't say it so makes you feel better.

TBH I haven't a clue what relevance your GP or your husband possibly being in a care home has on your threat to block the side turning.

I make no judgement on your parking on a yellow or white line, a situation that could probably be argued successfully - see the guys on Pepipoo for that. It was your threat to block the road in contravention of both BB & road traffic rules that was commented on.

I'm wondering what really prompted your reply after I replied to Turnupforthebooks and to reply in such a fashion to those comments. It seem a bit OTT