General Chat

the chap who was checking the disabled badges/exempt tax discs in Asda near the house today.

We couldn't get a place so himself dropped me off and parked. I noticed the chap looking at all the cars parked in the disabled bays and went over for a chat.

He was ticketing a car displaying neither badge nor disabled tax disc and the fine (as he told me) was going to be £70 :-D :-D :-D :-D

I asked if it was policy at this particular store and he said it was. I thanked him and the store management for trying to stamp out these abuses.

For once I was smiling at not having found a bay. The cost of these peoples' shopping had just shot up!

Sue

Good serves them right , dammed cheek of them , they should think themseves lucky that they actually do not need disabled parking .

Absolutely agree Sylvia, there used to be a poster on here who stated she used a disabled bay as she didn't want her new car scratched!

I'm lucky (I am not in a wheelchair) but those that need their chair unloaded from the side or rear are utterly stuffed.

So you couldnt find some where to park? and I take the house is not far from this Asda?
I also take it that the carpark was chok a bloc then........??

And ?? .................................

I have no idea what he is on about. The house is 10 miles from the store...perhaps I am supposed to walk it!

I also suppose he doesn't realise I have to have my door fully open in order to get out. I can't do that in a normal bay, hence the drop off outside the store's main door.

Hey ho...........crips rule :-D :-D

Edit: Not only do I have a blue badge my car is also road tax exempt as a disability car.

Brilliant! Not enough is done to catch these lazy bu**ers!!

Have to admit to looking into the cars of those parked in the baby & toddler bays to see if a car seat is in the car - though to be fair those with tiny babies tend to take the baby & seat out together!!

Good of him,,,,,he should have let their tyres down. :-D

I'd quite like Bob to come back and explain his post!

Mystified.com

me too!!! Bob is a bit of a joker I know but I ain't laughing at his post

I always check the cars in the disabled bays to see if they have blue badges - this is since my lovely OH had a blue badge - he looked very healthy to the untrained eye but in fact was dying - so I try not to judge people who leap out of cars displaying disabled badges - he only had the badge for six months when he died - and they turned him down first time even though he had a terminal incurable untreatable illness

some use cars of badge holders which they are able to do for errands,,,and the badge entitles them to park,,,,,,,so often a healthy young person can be seen leap frogging out of a car parked in the disabled bit.

I'm not aware that people who do not hold a blue badge are allowed to use it to park in disabled bays - that's a new one on me - if they are fit and able they can park likel able bodied people

It cannot be true or anyone could illegally use a bue badge and say "Oh, I'm shopping for the holder of the badge"

Just for info only...................

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/disabledpeople/motoringandtransport/dg_4001061

I thought it was only the named person.

The person named on the badge MUST be in the vehicle, no ifs ands or buts!

My Mother had a disabled parking card.

She didn't have a car, and she never learned to drive.

But ~ when friends & family took Mum shopping she would display the card on the dashboard. She was entitled to it.

When we visited Mum, OH would go ahead with the shopping trolley, unpack Mum's groceries into our car, and get dirty looks from people. While he was doing that, I was walking with Mum, who had a walking frame and couldn't move quickly. By the time we got to the car the groceries were in, the trolley was returned & OH was getting fed up with the dirty looks & comments.

I don't know how Mum managed to shop when she was by herself, with a walking frame and a trolley!

Right

sorry for the faux pas

I got the impression from the wording of your post that you lived" just around the corner"and that there was no disabled space available to park in the carpark so your driver took the car home after dropping you off....
so I thought it was just a short"mums taxi" ride.

I also assumed that the carpark was absolutely full and there was nowhere to parkup at all.......

and I can understand your feelings when all the disabled spots are taken.....

but supposing a ablebodied driver/shopper drove 10 miles and all the normal spots were taken up...............what do you suggest?? go home again? queue up in the access roads?drive around and around?
in our asda its pay and display but you get your money back if you actually buy something in asda
my guess is that they would park up as they do in our local sainsbury's,
in the pick up lanes and shop..

I didnt want to get anyones back up........sorry.

Bob

ps what DID annoy me was your apparent pleasure that there is £70 fine to pay .

Sorry that you are annoyed about the £70 fee regarding illegal parking Bob ,but if i had my way these people would be getting 3 points on their license too.
I am crippled with arthritis ,as well as having angina and pvd in my right leg .
Sometimes i have to park in the general bays ,and struggle in great pain to walk the 30 yards or so ,to get into the store .
It does NOT help when able bodied people take up a disabled spot to sneak to a hole in the wall to get money out.or indeed use a spot for an hour or more to do their weekly shopping.
I too at times cannot get in at all ,and have to go to a different store ,that's life mate ,you have to deal with it,at least able bodied people can if they have to ,walk half a mile ,to get into a shop ,some of us can't ,Fred. :-|

If you park properly you won't get fined.................simple.

The biggest problem with motorists is that they will drive 50 miles to a supermarket but won't walk 50 metres to get into it.

If only more stores would ticket illegally parked vehicles in Disabled bays.

Although they may be a bit further from the doors, why not park in the Parent and Child bays (and display your badge) if the disabled bays are full? At least they are normally wider than the 'normal' ones making it easier to open the car door wide.

Off topic - but I can't understand why parent and child bays have to be close to the store entrance. Unless the parent and/or child also has a mobility difficulty...in which case they'd have a Blue Badge... they ought to be able to walk 50 - 100 metre like everyone else!