I have had many a run in using a disabled bay, my son is disabled, blind in fact, and as such has a blue badge, which in turn allows me or lisa to use a disabled bay IF my son is in the car.
I have had verbal abuse, notes left on my car one time nearly ended in fistycuffs as some bloke pushing a trolly past me, said a rather insulting comment under his breath to his wife, but close enough so i could hear it, well, he got both barrels of my tounge and had the fricking cheek to tell me to calm down His wife made an exit as did mine, and I was face to face with this pr1ck screaming foul abuse at him when he raised his hand too me, so in fight mode, and in order to protect myself, and knowing some close combat moves, he swiftly ended up on the tarmac on his arse, when the Sainsburys security pushed me away, and asked if the pr1ck on the floor was OK! My son was in the car BTW.
I had a Tesco security guard thrust his hand into my chest, son at my side, who said. Do you know you are parked in a disabled bay?
Told him that he had assulted me and I was going to take it further with his company, swiped his hand off my chest and told him to F--K OFF. When I was leaving the shop, he came along side me and made an apology, again he was to where to go.
My point is this:
How dare ANYONE says anything to anyone else without knowing the full facts of having a disabled person or child in a car. I will very happily defend my family and position without question.
However if someone had the courage to ask to see the badge instead of making comments to there partner, fair play.
So beacuse of the amount of busybodies minding other peoples business and not their own, We no longer park in disabled bays when my son is on board, and park as far away as possible.
It angers me that stupid car park planners seem to think a modern ecowarriors car is 36" wide, and then make the allocated space 37" wide, are these people stupid or what, or, are they made so tiny as to try and discourage the motorist from driving to save the planet
I went to a shopping centre last weekend, was in a position that I coud only park between 2 cars, but as the 370 is wide, I couldnt even get in the space, cars either side were parked within their nominated restrictive boundary, so we had to either drive around looking for a suitably wide space or come home. I came home!