General Chat

I have good days and bad days with my problems. On the good days I do not use my blue badge and park in a normal bay as a little walk does me some good and the bay is reserved(hopefully) for someone who needs are greater than mine. Bad days different matter. :-(

I have a wheelchair but do not use it when
coming from car to store entrance where I know
I can get a mobility scooter for shopping.
I cannot walk too far due to pain.
I use a walking stick when I do walk even in my home.

Shame on the able bodied who take up spaces for us,
I wish I could walk about stick free and pain free.

my wife is disabled but all the same she enjoys her job

I was disabled for over a year following a road accident .... it was no fun at all but did give me an in depth (death?) insight into the problems of being on crutches ... fir instance

travel is a nightmare
airlines don't like crutches
it is assumed that along with yr injury yr mental facukties are also gone with the wind
there is no such thing as a flat street
never ending pain
many close encounters with hospitals - French hospital clinics aren'e much better than the NHS though the food is a lot better and you do get yr own room.
does he take sugar

as the disabled have paid taxes too the half hearted attempts to make their lives a bit more possible all over most of Europe are pathetic.

The day I got back on the squash court I won 9-0 all that anger had to go somewhere.

IMHO mother and child parking should be restricted to children under 4 years of age and cease to apply from 7pm. It should be as far as poss from the supermarket which might do a little to reduce the diabetes epidemic.

Sadly some people are very ignorant about the definition of disability. But I suppose there is no cure for that.

That's why I posted the comment about notes left asking about their wheelchair!

It's bad enough having a disability without insensitive idiots questioning their entitlement to a bay.

Not all disabled people require a wheel chair.
If somebody is parked in a disabled space + blue badge others should leave it at that.

Us militant cripples have ways of naming and shaming people who abuse disabled bays.

Also give genuinely disabled people the opportunity to rant and share the verbal and written abuse they received when parked in a disabled bay.

A popular one appears to be notes which read "forgotten your wheelchair have you?" or a less mild equivalent!

Also we can share places to visit which are very disability friendly or absolutely inaccessible. Plus people don't realise that many attractions are FREE for registered disabled and one carer :-D

This is good news. A few months ago, I asked at our local Tesco as to what happens if someone misuses a disabled space. The answer was 'nothing - we put their car reg on the loudspeaker, but they usually don't come forward because they know why we want them", Nuff said.

It really bugs me .People go to cash machines & just park were they want .they would pull up next to the doors if they could .we have notices up a fine if you park on disable parking spaces ?? .don't they have CCT cameras to watch car parks ? or is it to much trouble to check .maybe that's the answer Barbra .

DLA/PIP is not means tested.

I see Asda in Galashiels also has a notice of £70 fine for misuse

Hubby had a blue badge parking which we used correctly . What would annoy me was all and sundry who weren't neighbours would park for days outside our house and along the road so I couldn't get near to help him out of the car and into the house .

He went to dementia day care on a Wednesday and was picked up and dropped off later by a minibus . The carer on the bus ,which often had to double parked , had to struggle with him and me escorting him from and to the house .

He was so dodgy on his feet and had really bad days with his balance

I couldn't get any help with the parking as he didn't qualify for a disabled bay as he didn't have disabled benefit because it was means tested .

Even to get a dropped kerb wasn't an option as it would cost £2000 ,plus if there was no car parked on the front paved garden then it was ok to park across it . What couldn't be done was to block a vehicle getting out but it didn't apply to getting in . Was told this by the council .

When he passed away I informed the council green card dept and returned it to them even though it was nearly expired



Edit
He got attendance allowance . But It was because we have a garage that he didn't qualify for a parking space even though he wasn't able to access it as it's in the back garden with access from a cul de sac
The garden is sloped with steps that he wasn't able to safely walk up and down to get too and from the garage . I had to bring the car around to the front of the house for him to get into

It was another allowance that we were told to apply for that is means tested that he didn't qualify for

He passed away on the 24th oct 2015 so his anniversary is coming up .

what annoys me more, is taxi drivers sitting in "pickup points" waiting for what appear to be random customers.......

We have had no problems at our Tesco, we may have been lucky.

I hope it comes to our Tesco. I take an old lady shopping every Wednesday and she has a blue badge, but the disabled spaces are often full because of people " popping" to the cash machines which are nearby

although I have a ganglion I'm not applying for a blue badge!!!

Tesco shoppers face £70 fine for using parent or disabled spaces: Crackdown will see staff given special smartphone app to record those breaking the rules
Supermarket chain has armed staff at 81 of its stores with smartphone app
It is part of drive to stop motorists from parking in disabled bays at stores
The scheme will be rolled out to 200 more locations over next few weeks


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About time!!!

So do I, abuse of disabled parking spaces is one of my absolute hates! Asda do enforce fines at a few of their stores and I hope all supermarkets follow suit.

Next they should target 'cash point cripples' who also irritate the hell out of me.

I hope this works and others follow

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3827932/Tesco-shoppers-face-70-fine-using-parent-disabled-spaces.html