Is having children or just being fat a disability ?

custardy

**Patty** wrote: »

On the subject of supermarket policing of blue bays......No supermarket employee has the right to ask to see the reverse of my Blue Badge. That is reserved for police officers and parking attendants


Secondly.....I drive a Saab 95. It does not fit in 1 supermarket parking bay. If they didn't make them all sized for fiestas/corsas, then it might fit

since when was a saab 95 too big for a parking space?
i think you need a bit of practice or a smaller car
just now i have a vectra estate and it fits in easily with space all round

sjc_2

Personally I always avoid the Disabled & Parent & Child Bays, yes they are outside the front door with nice big gaps between, so someone can try and get a trolley between yours and the next car, seen too many scratches resulting from those bays.

This was even when we had our new born, always park over the other side of the car park and use me legs, saves the scratches and dents in the car.

Do like the "Mother & Child" Signs so in theory I could drive my 69 year old mum to Sainsburys and use one of the bays me being her Child

Millionaire

If they started clamping or towing the cars away, Im sure people would soon stop parking there.

aardvaak

I am always reporting to the security people these ignorant sods in my local Tesco's for parking in disabled bays - whenever I have been there there has been at least 6 many times a lot more.

The security guards can not care less one saying to me "I know we have stickers to put on their windscreens but don't do it anymore as some people have claimed damage to their wipers" It's no wonder these bast**ds still do it and get away with it.

I just hope one day they will be disabled and someone causes a problem to them.

If it was up to me I'd clamp them.

mrsbez_2

I think they should rename the parking bays for people that are less abled, or need the assistance of carers. This would then encompass the elderly and babies who cannot walk yet!!!! and anyone else in between with temporary loss of the ability to park, sorry meant walk!:)

It really bugs me, having two little children, that mums with grown up children still park in the parent and 'toddler' parking bays. They have struggled with small babies and should no better!!

And if the supermarkets made the spaces wider and pedestrian routes to the front door, life would be alot easier all round!! Having to negotiate other people parking (reversing) into your children, is also another major hazard.

Therefore i use tesco.com and have mine delivered!!

Just a little courtesy and thought for others goes along way

kr15snw

When at a Sainsburys in the midlands recently (really cant remember where it was now....) there were signs for 'Extra width spaces'. Intreagued our car group when to investigate!! They really were just wider parking spaces with a bit of extra space (like the disabled bays) on the edges! Since when did they do these??

MrsE_2

jammin wrote: »

While they're at it, I wish the supermarkets would supervise cars that, for the life of them, can't seem to park in one space. You know the ones. No care for anyone else, parking across two or more spaces. So skewif they make Graham Norton look straight.

In fact, when I went to Tesco the other day, one car was parked across no less than four spaces. Total disregard for others, and no excuse. Eejit.

Sometimes though I have to park a bit sqwife because the cars already there are a bit slanted or on the white line or over the white line or all of them!

My car is short but its wide (its a 4x4) & some car parks do have very narrow spaces & while I can park it no problem, its not easy to get out without banging doors, mine or theirs:o

Sometimes the spaces are so narrow if I have a passenger I let them out then park.

Went to Epsom a few weeks ago, nightmare car park. Tiny spaces & quite tight to get around:mad:

tuftyclub

actually (and not trying to open a hornets nest here ... We have had two events where the police have stolen things.... Obviously - it doesn't happen all the time ..... or even often - but it does occasionally happen.

My aunt died - we had been over the day before and seen £1000 on the table - she dies the next day - and the policeman told us they had recovered £220 or so- we commented on the disparity and the money appeared.

Also we had a bottle of whiskey stolen (long story) and when we went to the police station to pick it up - CID had drunk it.

Not trying to be controversial - but these things do happen

debsy42

tuftyclub wrote: »

actually (and not trying to open a hornets nest here ... We have had two events where the police have stolen things.... Obviously - it doesn't happen all the time ..... or even often - but it does occasionally happen.

My aunt died - we had been over the day before and seen £1000 on the table - she dies the next day - and the policeman told us they had recovered £220 or so- we commented on the disparity and the money appeared.

Also we had a bottle of whiskey stolen (long story) and when we went to the police station to pick it up - CID had drunk it.

Not trying to be controversial - but these things do happen

Sounds like something out of "Life on Mars" :eek:

tuftyclub

it was sometime ago :-) Round about the early 80's

Unfortunately the other event was last year!