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Post by salopstick on Jul 7, 2008 16:43:42 GMT
just been down my local supermarket and couldnt get a parent and baby space as they only have 12 but there were shit loads of disabled parking spaces empty
surely if they are empty parents with kids should also be able to use them. same goes around town.
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Post by Miniman on Jul 7, 2008 16:45:17 GMT
I'm sure Sal will say something here!!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2008 16:46:02 GMT
Do you have legs?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2008 16:46:39 GMT
BTW that's to salop and not a reference to Minimans comment  |
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Post by Miniman on Jul 7, 2008 16:49:27 GMT
kk wasn't sure...;P
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Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2008 16:51:52 GMT
just been down my local supermarket and couldnt get a parent and baby space as they only have 12 but there were shit loads of disabled parking spaces empty surely if they are empty parents with kids should also be able to use them. same goes around town.  |
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Post by salopstick on Jul 7, 2008 17:05:38 GMT
yes mate, im also observing that at my local supermarket they have 3 times the parking for disabled people as they do for parents. i have no problem with this apart from them not being used and think when they are not being used others could use them |
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Post by tazi on Jul 7, 2008 17:12:42 GMT
just been down my local supermarket and couldnt get a parent and baby space as they only have 12 but there were shit loads of disabled parking spaces empty surely if they are empty parents with kids should also be able to use them. same goes around town. I blame thee hungry fuckin babies i do!. |
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Post by dadofsam on Jul 7, 2008 17:41:54 GMT
I thought all these spaces had been bought up by the manufacturers of luxury 4x4's, BMW and Audi for the exclusive use of their owners
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Post by mermaidsal on Jul 7, 2008 18:04:34 GMT
;D at Miniman... so now I'll shock you and agree with salop, it's daft that they can't be more flexible. On the other hand to do that they need car parking staff to make sure there are enough wide spaces near the shop for both and bugger the 4 x 4s off...
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Post by stokietomo on Jul 7, 2008 18:37:20 GMT
Well in Stoke there are at least 10 times more people who claim they are disabled than have kids!! Lots of them are lazy scrounging shits though!! (Not all of them obviously)
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Post by salopstick on Jul 7, 2008 18:50:46 GMT
;D at Miniman... so now I'll shock you and agree with salop, it's daft that they can't be more flexible. On the other hand to do that they need car parking staff to make sure there are enough wide spaces near the shop for both and bugger the 4 x 4s off... knew that was coming. |
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Post by boslemstokie on Jul 7, 2008 20:33:05 GMT
lets say for instance that if everybody parks in a disabled bay , then someone who is disabled comes along oops nowhere for them to park,,,,,the solution , get these selfish bastards with no kids who park in the parent & baby spaces, hang the bastards, to park in the correct spaces, it pisses me of when i've got 3 kids under 5 and i see some twat get out of their car with a spotty teenager while i have to struggle in a space of about 6 inches either side of my car.....sorry rant over.
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Post by swampySCFC on Jul 7, 2008 20:50:55 GMT
I always sneak in to a mother/baby spot because I dont want me doors bashing.
Anyway them women that do nout all day should make their kids walk a bit. Theres too much obesity
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Post by Mason_Stokie on Jul 7, 2008 21:50:18 GMT
people who park in disabled spaces that aren't disabled need their legs breaking. simple.
and people that park in parent and child spots when on their own need their tyres slashing.
I'm not disabled, and don't have kids but lazy fuckers like this piss me off.
there's a bloke who goes to my golf club (that has a gym). business man with a black audi A4 estate. Lazy fucker always parks in one of the special places.... you're going to the gym for fucks sake you fat fucker... walk the extra 30 yards from a normal parking space...
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Post by prong on Jul 8, 2008 0:00:00 GMT
I've never understood disabled parking.
I know it's closer to the entrance of the store, but you've still got get round the store at the end of the day.
At best, you're only saving someone 50 yards. If I were disabled I'd probably find it insulting that I was being given special treatment.
It's like women getting low pay. On the one hand they're allowed to throw hissy fits and act like children when they have to put a picture up or do an oil change, then five minutes later they're throwing themselves under racehorses and banging on about equality.
The hypocrisy of it all drives me mad.
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Post by st0kecity on Jul 8, 2008 8:54:20 GMT
I've never understood disabled parking. I know it's closer to the entrance of the store, but you've still got get round the store at the end of the day. At best, you're only saving someone 50 yards. If I were disabled I'd probably find it insulting that I was being given special treatment. Its not about the distance though, more the space. You need room to get a wheelchair down the side of a car which standard spaces dont provide. My friends fiancee has a box on his roof which is automatic and drops a wheelchair down the side of the car for him. He needs the room to be able to do this or he simply cant get out of the car. |
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Post by wizzardofdribble on Jul 8, 2008 10:35:35 GMT
I've never understood disabled parking. I know it's closer to the entrance of the store, but you've still got get round the store at the end of the day. At best, you're only saving someone 50 yards. If I were disabled I'd probably find it insulting that I was being given special treatment. It's like women getting low pay. On the one hand they're allowed to throw hissy fits and act like children when they have to put a picture up or do an oil change, then five minutes later they're throwing themselves under racehorses and banging on about equality. The hypocrisy of it all drives me mad. Some of the crap posted on this thread beggars belief; Take the above for example; Disabled parking-bays are wider because you need more space to get a disabled person out of a car especially when they can't move and need to be lifted out...it's got nothing to do with being "closer to the store" You obviously have never had to deal with a severely disabled person in your family league one or you wouldn't post such misinformed, pig-ignorant dross Next time you comment on a subject get your facts right first you fucking prick |
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Post by mermaidsal on Jul 8, 2008 11:12:24 GMT
Like Miss P and the wizzard just said... what I need most is a wide space because I have to get the passenger door of my car fully open, get my wheelchair out and put it together, then transfer into it. If someone parks too close in a 'normal' space while I'm in a shop I'm helpless, I just can't get into my car. So, for me a wide space is vital and if I can always find one I can pretty much do what everyone else does, just on wheels. But then disability's a broad church, and someone with heart problems for example (which account for a lot of the blue badge holders in North Staffs, only the minority are in wheelchairs) may get out of a car next to mine in the disabled bays, look as healthy as anyone else but not be fit to walk more than 20 yards. Which means nearest the store has to be the right place although personally I don't think twice about pushing 100 or 200 yards in my chair to get back to the car (but then I struggle with trolleys if I'm on my own so tbh there are good reasons to be closer). But, like I said earlier, parents with buggies and toddlers have the same problems and so did I when mine were that age, although I wasn't on wheels then. It would make so much more sense simply to have more wide spaces and make sure they're not abused...
(prong and anyone else who doesn't believe this, I can lend you my spare wheelchair to try it for a day if you like, I'll even come along and give you a few hints... )
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Post by lawrieleslie on Jul 8, 2008 12:21:49 GMT
Because of a leg injury, to get in and out of my car I have to open the door fully so as to swing my leg out. I cannot get in or out with the door anything but fully open. Now here is the dilema, I can't and don't want a disabled sticker because I can walk and move as well as anyone apart from getting in and out of my car. So when I go to a supermarket etc I nearly always have to park in mother and toddler spaces so I can fully open the car door. At my local supermarket the parking attendants know me and allow me to do this but at other places I just take the risk and in 4 years have never had a problem apart from the ocassional abuse from mums who have parked but dont understand my predicament.
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Post by wizzardofdribble on Jul 8, 2008 12:44:36 GMT
Good thoughtful posts from Memaidsal, as always, and lawrylesly, amongst some of the usual thoughtless dross. The number of times I've tried to park in disabled-bays at supermarkets or places like Trentham Gardens, and found them full of cars without stickers..happens all the time It takes 2 of us to move a member of my family, who weighs just over 8 stone, out of the car into her wheel-chair, and then we have a walk round NOT to do the shopping, but to let her and us get out of the house and interract with the "real-world". Last week at Trentham some selfish prick had parked his BMW in a disabled space, and when I asked him why he just shrugged his shoulders and said "Because I want too"... Some people have absolutely no idea have they? They haven't got a fucking clue  |
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Post by supersmashinggreat on Jul 8, 2008 12:54:32 GMT
I find it strange that some people with disabled badges, can get out of there car & just walk normally into the shop.
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Post by swampySCFC on Jul 8, 2008 13:11:35 GMT
I would never park in a disabled space. All those fucking wheelchairs scraping past me doors after Ive waxed me nice paintwork. Bloody thoughtless.  |
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Post by wizzardofdribble on Jul 8, 2008 13:14:57 GMT
I find it strange that some people with disabled badges, can get out of there car & just walk normally into the shop. Why? The driver of the car isn't neccesarily the one with the disability ??? |
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Post by mermaidsal on Jul 9, 2008 12:23:59 GMT
So guess who couldn't get back in her car for 20 minutes this morning because some berk parked too close, even though it was meant to be a disabled space? Grrrrrrr
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Post by salopstick on Jul 9, 2008 13:34:34 GMT
i bet his doors wernt scratched though and he didnt have to walk too far.
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Post by mermaidsal on Jul 9, 2008 18:06:17 GMT
As if I'd scratch some innocent person's doors   |
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