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Sylvia, sometimes, when I'm in the car with my daughter, I point out we're 'parent and child', so logistically she can park in her normal place - the child seats in the back may be empty, but I'm her mum and she's my child,

Some mother * brought her up with a sense of morals - and she won't! park in the 'parent and child' area if she hasn't got her children! :-| :-D

what a bad daughter


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My hubby has a blue badge due to a stroke. More often than not we can't find a space in the disabled spaces as they are full. Maybe next time I will have a look to see if the cars are showing their blue badges.
Just signed.

I had a "disabled" sticker for our car for three months, when I was on crutches.

I think we used it once......... because all the disabled spots were usually taken by ignorant, selfish people! DH dropped me off at the door, found a park, and returned for me later. This even happened at the medical centre!

My Mum had a disabled permit, but she didn't drive, she would put it on the window of the car of the person who was taking her places..... and when Mum died, my rotten selfish brother took it! I was SO tempted to report him.

I fill in the form with the reasons I need the permit, including listing the aids I already use - I have to give my doctor's name and address presumably so that they can check if necessary. If there weren't any disabled parking I should have to ask for escorted help almost always.

I always use my badge even on days when I
have less pain, I need the space allowed me when
getting in and out of our car without twisting myself
and trying to squeeze into a small space I also need
my OH to help me get on my feet and to help me sit
down on the passenger side, I haven't driven for years
and feel grateful for my blue badge.

Done. should also apply to parent/ child places.

Signed and glad to. Re hospital/blue card parking - was taken to Southampton Hospital by ambulance some three months ago. I heard through media the horrors of parking there. I saw in ambulance parking a mini had squeezed in the space between two ambulances.
Whilst we were waiting for an ambulance to back out - two cars were parked at side of road and the two drivers were having one stinking row! Our driver said anyone and everyone parks where they can - even in disabled and ambulance bays.

Apparently Portsmouth Hospital can be even worse with ambulances queueing up to enter.

There is a perfectly good NCP not far from Southampton Hospital.
Parking close to the hospital though is next to non existent not helped by the building works.

The Blue Badge scheme has far too many people enrolled who don't really need it and even more who use a family member's badge. The result is that the scheme has fallen into disrespect which is why so many people park in the spaces who shouldn't.

Both my mother and OH are disabled with their own blue badge. The current mess can ruin anybody's day but I don't think Asda have the right approach. There are more than enough people with the mentality of a ww2 air raid warden without adding to them.
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All done....

The Family Doctor (or specialist) has to fill out the medical part of the form I have to fill in ............... he/she has to write in the reason in quite some detail, whether it is permanent or temporary, and sign


But there are always the ignorant louts who park in disabled spaces when they don't need to

barbra ..............

parents with children might not be as lazy as you think .......... one reason why stores and malls are providing parent with child spaces is because they often need more space to get the child out of the car

The others ......... lazy, too busy, and too much "me, me" generation to park further away!

Our Sainsbury in the village have both Disable & children parent parking .but they still use disable because its nearer the doors .Barbra

they're more honest over here :-)

were is my post ? before Sylvia answered 12th June :-S

this one?

Barbra Report 12 Jun 2016 23:01

Our Sainsbury in the village have both Disable & children parent parking .but they still use disable because its nearer the doors .Barbra
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Despite the need to have wider than average spaces, why do Parent & Children ones have to be nearer the doors?? A bit of rain doesn't hurt anyone + there are usually empty trolleys with child seats scattered around in the designated places. Althernatively, the parents can carry their young child while holding a walking childs hand...wot we used to do

the extra space for parent-and-child parking is for the children to have a safer place while we pack and unpack child seats, shopping bags, locking up etc. - I agree with Det that closeness to the doors is not the essential that it is for the disabled

Here, parent child parking spaces are further away from the doors than disabled spaces, but it is easier to make them at the ends of the parking lanes rather than in the middle, and it is better to have them closer to the building rather than at the furthest end of the lot.

My brother in law looked perfectly healthy - unless you knew what he looked like before he got mesothelioma, so those 'not in the know' could have accused him of not really needing a blue badge - but he was dying - very slowly - but dying.
Maybe they shouldn't have used the badge until he didn't have the strength to go shopping - after all, why should a dying man want to go out - let alone choose his own food!!

Fortunately, he was well known in the town where he lived, and didn't suffer from
'those who presume to know better'.
If he had lived, he would be celebrating his 66th birthday today.

It might be a small step for the hordes of obese children if family parking was always as far away from the store as possible. Distance really matters for disabled people.

Family & child parking status should end by 7pm with the spaces available to anybody.

I often wonder why people create for themselves and others the purgatory of shopping and small children.