NCP Car Parks

Robothell

I know it's a little off the point, but I remember getting into an arguement with a guy in a car park outside TK Maxx in Derry a few months ago. Basically I was driving my Mum around shopping - she has quite bad arthritis and uses two crutches to walk. All the disabled spaces were filled (and not all had badges displayed but that's a separate issue) and so I parked in the only empty "Parent and Child" spot for the extra space, displaying my Mum's badge on the windscreen. While I was helping my Mum out of the car a guy pulled up in front of me and started hurling abuse, saying that those spaces were for people with kids (his two sons aged, at a guess, seven and nine were in the back of the car) and that I should move. Needless to say I told him where to go and that he and his able bodied children could perhaps walk a little further as they had no need for the extra space around the car. Oh, and the fact that those spaces are a courtesy and not a legal right! At that point my Mum started waving her crutches at him in a threatening fashion and he moved on! I could understand if the guy had a pram or something but he was just being a lazy pr!!k.

Makes my blood boil still thinking about it.

IvanOpinion

More to the point I don't think the spaces were ever meant for parents with children more than a few years old. You should have just told him that they are parent child spaces and you would like to introduce him to your parent If I am on my second or third lap of a car park then I have no qualms about using Parent/Child spaces

Ivan

Colin_Kee

IvanOpinion wrote: »

If I am on my second or third lap of a car park then I have no qualms about using Parent/Child spaces

Ivan

Grrrrrrrrrrrrr EVIL IVAN!!! If my OH. saw you doing that.... Your life wouldn't be worth living:rotfl:

IvanOpinion

Colin_Kee wrote: »

Grrrrrrrrrrrrr EVIL IVAN!!! If my OH. saw you doing that.... Your life wouldn't be worth living:rotfl:

I might have met her already

[EDIT] That maybe didn't read correctly so I think I had better add ... 'given one ladies comments a few weeks back'

Ivan

zfrl

I so agree that this system is over used. Nowadays it seems if you have a mild limp you can get one. Years ago after an accident I had one leg & one arm in plaster and could only hobble a very short distance. I asked if you could get a short term disability badge but was told they were only available on a permanent basis - Why?

I also agree about the parent/child spaces. They need to say pram/pushchair so that parents with older children do not abuse them.

Right that's my moan over.

claudefrog

Colin_Kee wrote: »

Grrrrrrrrrrrrr EVIL IVAN!!! If my OH. saw you doing that.... Your life wouldn't be worth living:rotfl:

not being funny.. but your wife should perhaps mind her own business in things like this.

If she was to say something to me, it would be a case of mind your own $&%* business :beer:

you get some crazy people out there, and I wouldn't bother myself with getting involved in something that quite frankly is not my business, you hear all sorts of stories about mad people out there getting involved in fights for road rage and parking wars etc

Girlzmum

IvanOpinion wrote: »

More to the point I don't think the spaces were ever meant for parents with children more than a few years old.

If you join the Tesco Parenting Club you get a badge for Parent and Baby spots, they're valid until the child is 5 years old - plenty of time to get them out of a buggy.
I have had arguments with people who park in P&B spots, if there were no disabled spots then fine but too many people use them because they can't be bothered to walk for 10 seconds more.

C_Ronaldo

Girlzmum wrote: »

If you join the Tesco Parenting Club you get a badge for Parent and Baby spots, they're valid until the child is 5 years old - plenty of time to get them out of a buggy.
I have had arguments with people who park in P&B spots, if there were no disabled spots then fine but too many people use them because they can't be bothered to walk for 10 seconds more.

The spaces should be checked on a regular basis by a parking attendant from teh supermarket

dmxdave

zfrl wrote: »

I so agree that this system is over used. Nowadays it seems if you have a mild limp you can get one. Years ago after an accident I had one leg & one arm in plaster and could only hobble a very short distance. I asked if you could get a short term disability badge but was told they were only available on a permanent basis - Why?

I also agree about the parent/child spaces. They need to say pram/pushchair so that parents with older children do not abuse them.

Right that's my moan over.

I don't agree with yourself and Ivan that the badges are easy to get. Yes it is wrong that temporary ones are not available and that kids with severe problems cannot get them because they are too young.

As I see it the problem is the system is flexible so that the person with the difficulties can travel in more than one specified vehicle, this makes perfect sense but leads to the problem of the wideboys or girls displaying a badge and using the spaces when the person the badge has been issued to is not there, as with gymboy as Ivan mentioned who might even have a DLA car (DONT GET ME STARTED!)