Can disabled people park in parent and child spaces?

Poppie68

While a lot of us have managed through the years without incident, before the days of P&C spaces and before babies were left for prolonged amounts of time in a car seat.
I can thoroughly understand its easier for parents but some along with some disabled people are just so precious about the allocated spaces that ugly scenes are found in car parks all over the country....We have become such an entitled nation.

Poppie68

1886 wrote: »

I was parked in my local Tesco last week opposite the disabled bays and parent/children bays waiting for my wife and decided to watch exactly who parked in these spaces.

I'd say a good 75% of cars that went in the bays should'nt have been parked there. Looking at the people that then got out of those cars it did'nt surprise me. Lets just say a certain 'type' of person parks in these bays.

The sort of person that I would never want to know, work alongside or be related to.

I'm intrigued by what kind of person you think they are, and judging them because they have parked in one of these bays?

Don't judge a disabled bay/BB holder user by their cover, you have no idea what is going on inside the body.

facade

Poppie68 wrote: »

I'm intrigued by what kind of person you think they are, and judging them because they have parked in one of these bays?

Don't judge a disabled bay/BB holder user by their cover, you have no idea what is going on inside the body.

From the tone of the post, he is likely basing his judgement on the number of people clambering out of the car, how they are dressed, the amount of swearing and shouting, and other stereotypical behaviour.

Small minded it may be, to judge people on stereotypes, but some people live them (or they wouldn't be stereotypes)


I agree though, there are many conditions that get you a disabled badge, because you can't walk far, that aren't visible.

Kim_kim

facade wrote: »

I would imagine that my father would have parked where he could open the door enough, and if we returned to the car and he couldn't because someone had parked against us, he would have pulled forwards until I/my mother could have opened it fully.

Supermarket shopping was a family experience then, he wouldn't have taken me on his own, and my mother never learned to drive.

Oh, and what are these "straps" you seem to refer to, in my day you just bounced around loose in the back once you were too big for the carrycot.

Anyway, I think the OP got the answers on page #1.

Now we are just arguing about whether or not you can open the doors enough to get in and out. The answer is obviously "Not in a modern carpark unless you park away from the herd, or use the M&C spaces."

I always park well away from the herd so I can actually open the doors, yet 50% of the time, I return 20 minutes later to find a car parked 6" off the drivers side of mine, even though the rest of that area is completely clear of cars.
I think they do it just to make my day that little bit more miserable than it was before

My car is on the wide side & its 2 door - so the doors are bigger than a 4 door version.
I look after my granddaughter once a week. I always try & get a parent & child as otherwise it's difficult to get her in & out, wide car, big doors, (idiots who don't park centrally & straight too).

The ideal solution is to put them as far away from the shop entrance & then only people who need to get their doors right open would use them.

Marvel1

loskie wrote: »

OP your mum should have just rammed her trolley into this selfish biatches car when she returned with her shop.

OP then gets caught, are you going to pay for the damages?

loskie

of course!

Iceweasel

The obvious solution is to demand wider spaces for all.

I never have any problems getting in or out of a car in French or German car parks.

AdrianC

Iceweasel wrote: »

The obvious solution is to demand wider spaces for all.

Coming soon: My local supermarket's repainted their lines, and now there's only 2/3 as many spaces - so it's always full!

Iceweasel

AdrianC wrote: »

Coming soon: My local supermarket's repainted their lines, and now there's only 2/3 as many spaces - so it's always full!

Which supermarket chain is that?

Le_Kirk

Iceweasel wrote: »

Which supermarket chain is that?

I think it was a prediction based on post #78:)